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: When the on-screen keyboard appears and disappears, are there any listeners that are automatically called?
I was wondering if there is any way to be notified automatically by android when the on-screen keyboard is shown and when it disappears.
For example when we click on a edittext, the ime appears. Will there be any event calls?
And when it disappears…

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How to open the tablet-mode on-screen-keyboard in C#?
I want to start the new On-Screen-Keyboard (OSK) using code. You can find this one in the taskbar:
(if not there you find it by right clicking the taskbar).
I have already tried the regular:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("osk.exe");
But I want…

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How to run those Android SDK example applications?
I have 64-bit Windows 7 Professional, Android SDK and ADT Plugin for Eclipse. In the examples directory of Android SDK there are at least three different directories for SoftKeyboard. Which one should I use?
How to run that SoftKeyboard? I tried,…

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Show up the On Screen keyboard if the user sets the focus on a textfield. WPF with .Net 4 Client profile
For my full screen WPF application, I need to show up the Windows 7 onscreen keyboard, if a user sets the focus on a textfield.
There's no hard keyboard for the panel, just a mouse device to interact with it. In this case I need a onscreen keyboard…

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Looking for a localizable WPF Keyboard control for Kiosk
I'm working on a project that is using WPF on an XPe box that will be deployed as a kiosk application (touchscreen only, no keyboard/mouse), and we have the need for an onscreen keyboard. We can't use the built-in XP one because the buttons are too…

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libgdx: IOS on screen keyboard not firing events consistently
I am having trouble with InputProcessor only on my IOS build. This code works for Desktop and Android builds but not iOS.
Basically, I need to catch an event anytime the user types on the onscreen keyboard. But in iOS I only see my println for…

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Open On-Screen Keyboard for Xamarin/Monogame
I'm developing a game using Xamarin/Monogame and I need to open the keyboard on a mobile device when they click on my input control. I recognize that I can capture input using Keyboard.GetState() when I'm using the emulator and my keyboard, but real…

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On Screen Keyboard close button event?
In an application I am using an onscreen keyboard(OSK) for when it is running on a tablet.
We've made a class called OSK which has a show and hide method.
When the user presses 'enter' on the onscreen keyboard, the osk hides. The problem is when the…

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How to insert text at cursor position of another application on Mac OSX Application (like OSK)?
I'm trying to create an OSX application which would be a replica of On Screen keyboard. Is it possible to insert some text into the cursor position of another active application? Thanks in advance!

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How to implement a Java Swing application to Touch Screen
We have built a Point of Sale system and now we require to implement it to Touch screens? Do we need to change any code in turn to allow this to work.
And we are using the Keyboard to enter values - let's say quantity - Is there a java way of…

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Disable automatic opening of touch keyboard (TabTip.exe) on textbox focus on Windows 10, April 2018 Update
I have a WPF application written in .NET 4.6.1 used on tablets. When I focus a textbox, TabTip virtual keyboard is automatically invoked when:
tablet mode is turned on and focus is made with touch or stylus
tablet mode is turned off, Show the touch…

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WPF Application with OnScreenKeyboard on Windows Tablet
I am building a WPF Application that is going to be used on Desktop as well as on a Surface Pro Tablet running the Win10 Creators Update.
If a Textbox gets Focus the onscreenkeyboard of Win10 should open on the bottom of the screen and move the…

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Set Windows 10 "Automatically show the touch keyboard" with WPF app
I need to programatically enable/disable the Automatically show the touch keyboard option in Windows 10 with a WPF (not a UWP) like is shown here.
I couldn't find anything. Is there any API I can use from C# or registry key I can modify to…

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Start TabTip with numpad view open
I basically have code that starts the keyboard, but it opens in alphanumeric portion and the box for editing is a NumericUpDown with numbers. So, I want to open tabtip.exe aka the onscreen keyboard in windows 8.1 with the numerpad focused. Here is…

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C# how to disable on-screen keyboard sound in windows xp/7
I have a C# application running on windows xp/7 where I'm using onscreen keyboard.
When the sound is enabled there is a delay which causes problems.
I would like to disable the sound.
How can I disable the sound through my C# application…

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