For programming questions about creating or using an on-screen keyboard (a virtual keyboard displayed on the screen), including osk.exe included with Windows.
Questions tagged [on-screen-keyboard]
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Android - language of onscreen keyboard
In system I have defined 3 different keyboards (Czech, Slovak, Russia) and I want to switch between them programmatically without calling InputMethodManager.showInputMethodPicker(), because it show the selector, which I don't want.
How to do it?…

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Problems calling osk.exe
In researching how to do make the osk visible, I found the code below, created a new solution, added 2 buttons, pasted in the code and it worked perfectly.
When I added it to the solution I've been working on, nothing happened:
Public Class Form1
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Closing OSK (tabtip) in python
I am using following code to show osk
os.system("C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\ink\\tabtip.exe")
this code open the osk successfully but when I try to close it using below code
os.system("TASKKILL /F /IM tabtip.exe")
It gives error of
ERROR:…

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Keyboard mapping on VBox interface
I installed VBox version 5.22 on server that runs Ubuntu 16.04, when I try to create a Virtual Machine and enter a new name I am observing that the mapping of my keyboard is wrong, e.g., "space" is mapped to "7" . I tried to updated VBox to 6, but…

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CefSharp: I want to open my custom keyboard in the ChromiumWebBrowse
I want to open my own keyboard in the ChromiumWebBrowser. I do not know how to do that. I cannot determine the focus of an Input element. And I only need my own touch keyboard. I use CefSharp.WinForms 83.4.20.0. Windows 7 and Windows 8 , Windows…

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Why doesn't ion-input + angular-onscreen-material-keyboard work
Hello I'm using Ionic 5 and I'd like to use angular-onscreen-material-keyboard with ion-input. However for some reason it fails, I don't get any binding error to matKeyboard, however the onscreen keyboard is not shown. If I simply use “input”…

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C# Started Command Prompt not closing
I just started using C# again and I encountered a bug/issue while trying to start a process using command prompt.
I am trying to start/open the default On-Screen Keyboard from windows using command prompt. However, after the osk.exe executed, The…

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Windows 10 iot core onscreen keyboard
I am using Windows 10 iot core for creating a product. During the development phase, I had easy access to onscreen keyboard. Now when I am done with development, I followed the online manufacturing guide by microsoft as follows:…

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Virtual Keyboard pops up in Windows 10 when clicking anywhere on my WPF application
I'm writing a WPF application for a Windows tablet, and I need the virtual keyboard to open when, and only when, the user touches a text field.
Until now I've been using Windows 7 and it worked as intended.
But now I am switching to Windows 10 and…
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To open on-screen keyboard from my Python code on macOS
open -a KeyboardViewer
I found that it's possible to launch on screen keyboard via the above terminal command.
I am trying to open the OSK from my python code. How can I launch it ( osX)

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Virtual keyboard not shown in kiosk mode
Wpf application targeting .NET Framework 4.6.2 on Windows 10 Enterprise.
The touch keyboard shows up automatically when a text field gets focus.
The computer station must operate in kiosk mode and one way to achieve it is to replace the default…

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Windows 10 osk.exe not showing up automatically
I am creating a QML (Qt 5.12.5, Windows 10) application that needs to open Windows 10 keyboard (osk or tabtip) automatically when a text field has the focus.
However, the keyboard does not appear automatically. And I notice that it does not appear…

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What is the best way to invoke a onscreen keyboard when cursor placed on a wxTextCtrl?
I'm trying to design a GUI touch screen application using wxWidgets(version 3.0.4). The touch screen is working fine. I need to use the on screen keyboard to populate a text box(wxTextCtrl).
I've done some searching and I dont find any setfocus or…

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On-Screen Keyboard Java
I'm developing a java application with some buttons, eventually I need to make a version for touch screen monitors. The problem I have right now is JTextFields are not opening an on-screen keyboard and also closing it is a problem.
If I use windows…

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Python Kivy On Screen Keyboard Focusing on Field
I am trying to make an on screen keyboard with Kivy, and I need a recommendation for how to go about it. I need to find out how to have the field that I want to type into focused, and have my Kivy window still functional. My code currently only…

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