Inexplicable new Add typing behaviour since upgrade (Win 7 only)

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Hi there,

Experienced Anki user here (8 years, daily, all own content, broad use of many features).

I use my own custom keyboard layout for making notes, which facilitates quickly inserting various useful characters which aren’t readily available on your average keyboard without memorising a silly number of alt codes e.g. • ° λ ♂ ≡ ≈ ≥ → etc.

These are all achieved by holding the [Alt Gr] whilst pressing other keys, per the layout mapping. I have used this for years of fruitful flashcard creation with no problems (apart from the [Alt Gr]-F combination that has strangely never worked within Anki but didn’t bug me enough to post here!) That is, until this last update.

Since upgrading from the previous 64-bit Windows desktop version to Version 2.1.35, my Windows 7 workstation now exhibits the following behaviour which is not reproducible on by Windows 10 laptop.

I can still type these characters in all other applications as usual, but, frustratingly, not in the Anki Add window - which is exactly where I want to be using them! I can type them in to the browser and the html-edit popup window, though, which indicates it’s not a blanket application-focus issue.

Because this is my main workstation that I use to generate content, I don’t want to simply give up and use my annoying poor quality regrettable purchase of an HP laptop instead. (Hint: avoid HP?)

Are there any suggestions from the brighter folk of the Anki forums as to what’s causing this?

Many thanks,
Tom

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Not a solution to your problem and will break your current workflow, but maybe this add-on still helps:

Hope you find a solution to your problem though, it is annoying when usual workflows suddenly break without a real reason.

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Perhaps your other machine is using the alternate 32 bit version? It uses an older toolkit, and there were some issues with AltGr in the later one.

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Thanks for the suggestion, but it’s still easier to simply flick into html edit whenever I need to type a special character, or for character-heavy cards I draft it in notepad then paste into Anki before applying any formatting.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I think it’s running 64 bit, in that the .exe is in the “Program Files” folder and not “Program Files (x86)”, and task manager lists the process as “anki.exe” not a “.exe *32”. Or is there something I’m missing?

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Sounds like the 64 bit version - I’m not sure why it would behave differently on one of your machines.