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Please Sanae...FOOD is IMPORTANT!

Bleah. On a different computer setup until after the weekend, and for some reason, the Japanese IME on this one refuses to switch from English letters to hiragana, katakana, or anything else. I can kludge around it, but it's time-consuming. No GIMP or similar on this computer either, so color sampling will have to wait.

Reader-added tags include "Survival at the hotel", "Photo panel", and "Or so it was testified".

Moonspeaker said:

Bleah. On a different computer setup until after the weekend, and for some reason, the Japanese IME on this one refuses to switch from English letters to hiragana, katakana, or anything else. I can kludge around it, but it's time-consuming. No GIMP or similar on this computer either, so color sampling will have to wait.

Reader-added tags include "Survival at the hotel", "Photo panel", and "Or so it was testified".

I had that problem on my laptop. I fixed it by unchecking the box that says "Don't use direct input". It's under advanced settings, in the general tab.

moorsh88 said:

I had that problem on my laptop. I fixed it by unchecking the box that says "Don't use direct input". It's under advanced settings, in the general tab.

@moorsh88
Pardon my ignorance, but which general tab do you mean? How do I access it? I tried opening the language preferences control panel from the IME task bar icon, but nothing displayed there seemed to match what you're describing.

Moonspeaker said:

@moorsh88
Pardon my ignorance, but which general tab do you mean? How do I access it? I tried opening the language preferences control panel from the IME task bar icon, but nothing displayed there seemed to match what you're describing.

ah sorry for the late reply. if you switch inputs to japanese, then right click the "A" in the taskbar, you'll get a menu, one option of which is "Properties". that will open a window called "Settings for microsoft IME". click the button that says "Advanced" and it will take you to the advanced settings, with the general tab up by default. under the heading "Editing operation and behavior" you can find the check box for "Don't use direct input mode". unchecking that box is what made it work for me.

moorsh88 said:

ah sorry for the late reply. if you switch inputs to japanese, then right click the "A" in the taskbar, you'll get a menu, one option of which is "Properties". that will open a window called "Settings for microsoft IME". click the button that says "Advanced" and it will take you to the advanced settings, with the general tab up by default. under the heading "Editing operation and behavior" you can find the check box for "Don't use direct input mode". unchecking that box is what made it work for me.

@moorsh88
Ah, thank you. I found what you were talking about very readily thereafter. Unfortunately, it didn't fix the problem. I even re-opened the menu and checked to make sure the setting was still toggled off. Appreciate the advice nonetheless.

@Moonspeaker

Moonspeaker said:

Bleah. On a different computer setup until after the weekend, and for some reason, the Japanese IME on this one refuses to switch from English letters to hiragana, katakana, or anything else. I can kludge around it, but it's time-consuming. No GIMP or similar on this computer either, so color sampling will have to wait.

Reader-added tags include "Survival at the hotel", "Photo panel", and "Or so it was testified".

Most browsers (well, Chrome, Firefox, Edge/IE, at least) should have a color sampler/picker/eyedropper tool built in (natively, without need for extensions). They are only accessible under developer tool options though, so you'll need to open up the menu (usually the hamburger icon) and navigate through the DevTools/Web Developer options, or hit some sort of hotkey or right-click + inspect element. I use this function all the time to match note colors to text on Danbooru.

That said, I've heard recent Chrome updates has managed to break the feature or something.

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Can't help with the IME issue though. Having problems with mine myself, since I have both Chinese and Japanese IMEs running. Used to work, but a recent update managed to break* the Chinese IME ... unless I disable the Japanese one.

What is this I don't even Microsoft.

(*IME pad stopped showing up, weird hanzi suggestions for pinyin input, janky page scrolling through hanzi selection, etc.)

NNescio said:

@Moonspeaker

Most browsers (well, Chrome, Firefox, Edge/IE, at least) should have a color sampler/picker/eyedropper tool built in (natively, without need for extensions). They are only accessible under developer tool options though, so you'll need to open up the menu (usually the hamburger icon) and navigate through the DevTools/Web Developer options, or hit some sort of hotkey or right-click + inspect element. I use this function all the time to match note colors to text on Danbooru.

That said, I've heard recent Chrome updates has managed to break the feature or something.

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Can't help with the IME issue though. Having problems with mine myself, since I have both Chinese and Japanese IMEs running. Used to work, but a recent update managed to break* the Chinese IME ... unless I disable the Japanese one.

What is this I don't even Microsoft.

(*IME pad stopped showing up, weird hanzi suggestions for pinyin input, janky page scrolling through hanzi selection, etc.)

Eh, I'll be back at my usual setup by this evening, so I'm not too bothered about the color selection thing.

As for the IME business, well, I'll just cross my fingers that it hasn't affected said usual setup by the time I get back. Sorry to know it's been acting up so much on you.