bug(ios): up-flick gesture opens the long press keys submenu when no up-flick key is assigned

[Meng-Heng]

Describe the bug

Source of report: https://community.software.sil.org/t/do-longpress-keys-include-a-flick-gesture-automatically/9658

I’ve noticed that when using touchscreen layouts with longpress keys that I can also access the longpress character by flicking up/north. From I can tell this defaults to the last longpress character if there’s more than one. This happens without needing to add an explicit flick gesture.

Question:

I find this really useful where there is one longpress character. It allows for more fluent input. I’d therefore like to include this behaviour in the instructions for my keyboard layouts. However, I can’t find any reference to it in the Keyman documentation (sorry if I’ve missed it).

Could I check, is this intentional behaviour? Am I safe to describe it as a feature of my layouts with longpress keys?

Should the behavior be changed or the document? Please let me know if this is the intended behavior. Thank you!

Reproduce the bug

1. Open Keyman for iPhone and iPad
2. Install and select EuroLatin Keyboard
3. Up-flick a key which has both long press and flick keys.
4. The long press keys submenu will open.

Expected behavior

Please refer to the description above.

Related issues

No response

Keyman apps

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Keyman version

17.0 & 18.0.164-alpha

Operating system

iOS

Device

iPhone 11 Pro Max (18.0.164-alpha)

Target application

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Browser

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Keyboard name

EuroLatin

Keyboard version

3.0.3

Language name

English

Additional context

Link to keyboard: EuroLatin (SIL) keyboard

[Meng-Heng]

Solution: keymanapp/help.keyman.com#1789

[mcdurdin]

I think this is correct behaviour, closing