Guild Wars 2

When I have my crafting window open and I also open the black lion auction house I am having an issue with only being able to type once in the search window for the auction how.

Example

I am looking at my crafting window for Armorsmith. I have a pattern targeted on my crafting window to look what mats or inscriptions I need.

I then open the black lion trading company and search for say an inscription and hit search.

I then click back on my window for my armorsmith crafting window and select another pattern or inscription to look at its mats.

I think click back into the black lion trading company search window (that is still open) and try and type that inscription name in the search window.

The result in the black lion trading company search window is it loses focus and acks like my keyboard is now NOT in the search window. My cursor shows its in the search window inside the black lion trading company but if I type any letters, it gives me functions as if I WAS NOT in that search window.

Example I start to walk with my character..

The only way to fix this which is really annoying is to click on another black lion trading company window like check my items up for sale and then click back on the search window icon to search the black lion trading post.

THIS HAS NOT always been this way. Also seems to be broken within the last 3 weeks to a month and REALLY makes it hard to search for items with your crafting skill and black lion trading company window open at the same time.

Clicking search again allows you to type in the BL window again

Ath.2531:

Clicking search again allows you to type in the BL window again

^^This. This is a good workaround atm.

But yeah, Anet needs to fix that.

I agree. It’s very very annoying. I’d love for it to be fixed. Seems like it’d be a simple QoL improvement.

This may not completely solve your issue, but it’s something I stumbled upon the other day while crafting….

If I understand correctly, you have the Crafting window open and the BLTP window open. You’re looking at a recipe in the Crafting window, you see that you don’t have any, or a lower amount than you need, of one or more of the components, so you type into the search window of the BLTP window to see how much it will cost to get more. If this is the problem, I have a solution that requires ZERO searching or typing into the BLTP window…..

In your crafting window, with the recipe active, right click on the item in question. You should get a “Buy more at Trading Post” option. Click that and you’re there.

I hope this helps.

Easier way to reproduce this problem:

Open the TP window, click third icon to show the search box.

Then go in your chat box and say anything, anywhere (map, whatever).

Then try to type back into the TP search box – you’ll find that you can’t.

To fix it, click “Show Filters”, then you can type in the search box again, or you can close and reopen the trading post window.

In your crafting window, with the recipe active, right click on the item in question. You should get a “Buy more at Trading Post” option. Click that and you’re there.

Useful, although another reason I have this issue is that I tend to use crafting menus as a replacement for the bank menu, when going to the nearest bank vendor is a hassle. In this case I’m looking at active inventory and comparing it to the TP. This bug makes doing that a hassle.

Go to Tailoring station → start crafting something → Open the TP window, while you are crafting and try to do something, anything different than just looking. The lag is eternal. If you have to craft 1500 bolts … gratz! Go take a 15 minutes break or alt+tab the game.
I haven’t tried this with another crafting profession, but i believe it is the same.

This happens to me when I use the Click & drag method of highlighting the text and deleting it. Something about highlighting text causes it to not actually give focus to the search box. Instead, click the button with the X in it to clear the existing words.

I have reported it as a bug but it’s one of those things that will never get fixed. An L2P (Learn To Put-up-with) issue.