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Its a very unusual question, but I'm in need of this feature. In Windows Phone, how can I maintain visible the caret position cursor of a given TextBox, without showing the softkeyboard (virtual keyboard)? In Android this is very possible, but I haven't found anything in WP. Thanks in advance.

Marcelo
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This is not possible. Caret is only visible and associated with focus being on that control. The same applies to Soft keyboard.

Hermit Dave
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  • Thanks for the answer Hermit. Hmm... Microsoft has a realy sad API uhn? Times later I used to develop for Android, and now I'm feeling like chained hands with WP... =/ – Marcelo Jan 18 '13 at 16:51
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    WP dev was chained from day 0. In my app slydr, I display dummy caret using | char – Hermit Dave Jan 18 '13 at 16:53
  • ahah... I gonna try this idea of "| dummy"! – Marcelo Jan 18 '13 at 17:16
  • Hermit, you've said that is using the "|" character a a dummy. How you did this, as different characters have different widths (i.e. "i" and "o")? How you've calculated where to put your "|" character with a show/hide effect? – Marcelo Jan 22 '13 at 18:09
  • in slydr i only tend to show the caret at the end but it does occasionally create very weird effects when its close to end of the line :) – Hermit Dave Jan 23 '13 at 09:43