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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Attempting to open on screen keyboard through another program fails
I'm using a program called desklock which closes explorer/desktop and blocks hotkeys so that a user can only start programs by buttons on a small window. This will be going in as a touch-screen only HMI system, so I need to be able to launch the…

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Detect the onscreen keyboard in Windows 10 from Winforms
In a Winforms app running on Windows 10 (Anniversary or greater), is there a way to detect that the Windows onscreen keyboard has opened?

Sean Kearon
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Display Numeric OSK
I know that to show OSK, all I have to is simply execute osk.exe. What I want to implement further is to use it in its numeric form:
E.g. I want to save one mouse click for the user.
Target OS is windows 10.
P.S. is there any other way to display…

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Custom on-screen keyboard and filtered dropdown not playing nicely
I have a custom on-screen ten key pad in my winforms app that seems to work just fine everywhere except a single dropdown that has some custom filtering code. I've gone out of my way to make this keypad noninteractive in every way I can imagine.…

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SendInput won't send mouse events to on screen keyboard in Win 10
I am trying to use SendInput to convert touches from a touch sensor into standard mouse events. This works fine with several standard Windows apps. But when I send a LEFT_MOUSE_DOWN event while over the OSK, nothing happens. And yet when I click…

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In Regards to Android On-Screen Keyboard Input
I have been following this example (Open On-Screen Keyboard for Xamarin/Monogame) for hooking up the SoftInput to my Xamarin MonoGame Android app. The problem I'm having is catching the OnKeyPress events. As the poster has it listed there, I…

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access on screen keyboard from windev
In Windows 8 and Windows 10 before Anniversary update (summer 2016) it was possible to show touch keyboard by using (french version) :
LanceAppliAssociée("C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ink\TabTip32.exe")
Since the anniversary…

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UWP - How to prevent InputPane from showing and hiding automatically
I want to manually control the behavior of InputPane to prevent it from showing or hiding automatically.
In my page that I put its image top, I want to InputPane show as user navigate to the page and keep showing until he/she clicks on specified…

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how to change language of Virtual Keyboard in C# or VB?
I want to change language of OSK in my Project when show.
How can I do it?
This is my code:
Private oskProcess As Process
oskProcess = Process.Start("osk")
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How to create touchscreen in winforms
I have a program that is written in vb.net winforms.
I've been asked to add touchscreen abilities to the program(mainly open keyboard when we are on text box and close the keyboard when we are off the text box)
i've tried to use…

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Make window of app to be inactive in WPF application
I want to make a on-screen keyboard by WPF application. I want to make my window of app to be inactive. When I use Form application development I use this code
protected override CreateParams CreateParams
{
get
{
CreateParams param =…

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Windows Keybord display
I am trying to make an on screen keyboard for windows in C++ that rather than sends an input such as SendInput() takes intercepts the user inputs allowing the user to use a window and have the key press show on the on-screen keyboard.
I plan on…

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Using Native Windows On Screen Keyboard in WPF App
I need to use an OnScreenKeyboard Component like Native Windows OSK in my Wpf application. I can call the UI by Process.Start("osk.exe") but the UI appears on top of the main ui window. I want to start the OSK app just bottom of my app. Is this…

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Opening onscreen keyboard wxpython
I'm developing an app using wxpython for use specifically with a Microsoft surface, which requires text input. Is there a way to automatically bring up the onscreen keyboard when an input box is selected?

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Get listview item position after soft keyboard shown
I have a ListView, it is under action bar and above an EditText.
See picture:
The list view items have random height according to its content.
When click list view item, I need to focus on EditText and open soft keyboard, meanwhile I want the one…

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