feat(web): KeymanWeb does not activate when a Select field is triggered/selected

[manasan3010]

First of all, thanks for the great software.

I am using keymanweb 15.0.272 plugin on my website. The keyboards are working fine on input fields, but they are not triggering on the select field. Normally, the select field responds to the keypress and navigate the selection accordingly. How do I achieve this behavior in KeymanWeb using a custom language keyboard.

[mcdurdin]

Thanks for the feedback @manasan3010! This is a gap for sure and something we'd like to address. At this point, we don't have any capacity to implement.

We'd welcome pull requests but understand if that is outside your area of expertise! It'd involve creating a select.ts module that starts from the input.ts module, and going from there. (Presumably there would be more to it than that but I haven't looked)

[jahorton]

For the upcoming ES-module form of the class, see https://github.com/keymanapp/keyman/blob/feature-esmodule-web-engine/web/src/engine/element-wrappers/src/input.ts. The element-wrappers folder in that path defines the general submodule that KMW will use when connecting to any Web elements the engine can support for text input.

[MakaraSok]

Related post: https://community.software.sil.org/t/keymanweb-not-triggered-on-select-field/7037/1.