Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knows what keyboard typing combinations might turn off my ability to enter any keystrokes anywhere in my scene file.

This happens occassionaly and I haven't been able to ‘catch’ what combo I might have done before the issue comes up.

I'm assuming that as I am working and typing away I might be doing some special combination.

Hard for me to catch because it's usually when I am working at a fast clip, so recalling the previous steps is not easy ( because there may have been alot of keypresses ).

What happens is that I can't enter any keystrokes anywhere within the scene file e.g. parameter textboxes, naming a node, python shell window, etc.

Might just report it as a bug, although I can't duplicate what brings it on.

The only way to resolve it is to close the hip file and reopen.

possibly Scroll Lock (if your current frame box in playbar is orange)

it switches houdini to Intercept mode, useful for redirect all keys to Keyboard CHOP

Thanks Tomas, scroll lock does indeed do what you say.

Will check for that next time it happens unexpectedly.

Bad memory on my part since I have used CHOP keyboard node and you need to toggle scroll lock to get input.