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Questions tagged [on-screen-keyboard]

For programming questions about creating or using an on-screen keyboard (a virtual keyboard displayed on the screen), including osk.exe included with Windows.

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Is there any javascript event fired when the on-screen keyboard on mobile safari or chrome opens?

I try to react to the on-screen keyboard in our web applications. Unfortunately there are some things complicating this: First of all, the application has to run equally on mobile platforms (tablets) and desktops. Additionally scrolling the…
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Calling the on-screen keyboard using a button in C#

I am creating a windows application using C#, where in a button on the GUI when clicked, should display the on-screen keyboard. Would appreciate if any help is granted. thanks. Also, since I am mostly using Emgu Cv library for the rest of my app,…
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Unable to launch onscreen keyboard (osk.exe) from a 32-bit process on Win7 x64

90% of the time I am unable to launch osk.exe from a 32bit process on Win7 x64. Originally the code was just using: Process.Launch("osk.exe"); Which won't work on x64 because of the directory virtualization. Not a problem I thought, I'll just…
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How to use Windows On-Screen Keyboard in C# WinForms

VS 2010 Developing 32-bit app that runs on 64-bit OS (Windows 7, Windows 8 - desktop app) C# .NET 4.0 WinForms I have found many threads on launching the Windows on-screen keyboard (osk.exe) from an application, but I am running into some…
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How to capture the onscreen keyboard 'keydown' and 'keyup' events for touch devices

I have defined keyboard events which is working good in desktop but for touch devices not getting the onscreen keyboard event. I need to capture if user is typing. I have used the following segment of code : $('#id').keydown(function(e){ //some…
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Open Windows 10 touch keyboard docked in WPF

We started creating a WPF touch application in Windows 8 and recently migrated to Windows 10. One feature we implemented is opening the Windows Keyboard when a TextBox receives focus. In Windows 8, it was possible to dock the keyboard to the bottom…
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Show & hiding the Windows 8 on screen keyboard from WPF

I'm writing a WPF application for a Windows 8 tablet. It's full windows 8 and not ARM/RT. When the user enters a textbox I show the on screen keyboard using the following code: System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(@"C:\Program Files\Common…
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Programmatically open On-Screen Keyboard in UWP

Is it possible in UWP to force it to open the On Screen Keyboard (osk.exe)? For example, in C# it is possible using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("osk.exe"); Doing the above in UWP results in compile error saying there is no Process namespace. I…
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Onscreen Keyboard in Qt 5

I want to create a onscreen keyboard for a desktop application. The application will be built in Qt 5. I have couple of questions, please clarify them. What is the replacement of QInputContext in Qt5? (Because I read somewhere about onscreen…
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Detect if on-screen keyboard is open (TabTip.exe)

I am working on a WPF/C# application for completing forms. I am trying to find a way to determine if the TapTip keyboard (TabTip.exe / metro-like keyboard for windows 8 desktop) is minimized / not visible in windows 8. I have been able to detect if…
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Windows 8 Desktop App: Open tabtip.exe to secondary keyboard (for numeric textbox)

We're working on a desktop WPF app that runs on Windows 7 tablets and are adding some Surface Pro units with windows 8 to the mix. We noticed immediately that the little keyboard icon no longer displays when a TextBox receives focus. We solved it…
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How do I embed tabtip.exe inside windows

I'm trying to embed the osk in a wpf window or a user control and I've found the code below and it's working for notepad but for tabtip.exe, it's saying that it doesn't have a graphical interface?? WaitForInputIdle failed. This could be because the…
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Show android:hint only in Extract UI mode

I have a list of EditTexts in an android layout. Each one is labeled with a TextView, so no hint is necessary in portrait mode, and a hint would even be redundant. However, in landscape mode, many people have keyboards configured to take full…
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Update AngularJS models from a jQuery plugin with a "on change" callback

I'm building a web app for a touch screen computer which needs an on-screen keyboard and am attempting to use this excellent (or the least the only one I was able to find that wasn't terrible) keyboard. https://github.com/Mottie/Keyboard/ The…
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Android Custom IME use default on screen keyboard

When creating an IME for Android you need to support the on screen keyboard (OSK) via overriding many of the InputMethodService methods such as onCreateInputView(). Is there a way to use the on screen keyboard from the users default IME. For…
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