Description: At some point we lost the possibility to use the curosor keys (on a hardware keyboard) to move the selected cell and also select a range of cells using shift + cursor keys. Currently the cursor keys simply don't seem to work. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a spreadsheet using the iOS app 2. Try to move the selected cell using the cursor key Actual Results: It's not possible to move the selected cell using the cursor key. Expected Results: It should be possible to move the selected cell using the cursor key and it should be possible to shrink/expand a selection with the cursor key + shift. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Tested with 4.2.4 (55) on iPadOS 13.4.1
Confirmed, basically no hardware keyboard keys work when you're not in cell edit mode (but even cursor keys work when you're in cell edit mode). This is interesting, because when it comes to the softare keyboard, you don't have one until you're in cell edit mode, however when you have a hardware keyboard, it should be active all the time, navigating with cursor keys should work, and pressing a character should start editing the cell.
If you get into the state where a cell is selected but you are not editing its contents, then the hardware cursor keys do move the selection. (And Shift + cursor keys extend/contract it.) This is with a current build of online:master + core:cp-6.4.
Hmm, but what I said in my comment above only works fairly randomly. Anyway, investigating.
Ha. When fixing bug #129327, I wrote "I am fairly sure this has some unintended unwanted side effect, though." And indeed, it seems that this bug is one such side effect. If I comment out what I added for bug #129327, the cursor keys work much more reliably in spreadsheet documents in the iOS app.
Tor Lillqvist committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/online/commit/3df718aac72138849ecafadc13f0207c3ec52283 tdf#133284: Improve hardware and on-screen keyboard in the iOS app
This is fixed now. I tested with iOS 4.2.8 (26). Thanks a lot to the Collabora team and especially Tor for taking care of this! I believe this issie can be closed now.