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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Java - invoke on-screen keyboard
The application I am working on will run on Windows 7. It will be used to input some information via touchscreen. I need to have an on-screen keyboard popup whenever user is prompted for information. My question is, should I create a keyboard class…
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How to enable On-Screen-Keyboard for Flutter linux desktop
I have developed a Desktop App for Linux with Flutter.
My Flutter Version is: Channel dev, 2.6.0-0.0.pre, on Ubuntu 21.04 5.11.0-1015-raspi with VS Code Version 1.56.2.
Flutter doctor did not find an issue.
Since i want to use this app via…
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Virtual keyboard or onscreen keyboard for QtWidgets applications?
I'm going to deploy the qtvirtualkeyboard in my widget-based application like so:
#include
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
qputenv("QT_IM_MODULE", QByteArray("qtvirtualkeyboard"));
QApplication app(argc, argv);
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How can i programmatically manipulate the Windows 7 on-screen keyboard osk: Move, Resize, Remove Titlebar/Caption
I'm working on a WPF app where i want to display the built-in windows 7 onscreen keyboard in a 'always there' manner. So i want to:
Move it to a particular location
Set it to a certain width and height
Remove the caption/titlebar so the user can't…
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Change EnableDesktopModeAutoInvoke registry value and make TabTip.exe to accept change
Windows 10 has setting "Show the touch keyboard when not in tablet mode and there's no keyboard attached", which allows Windows to show touch keyboard whenever you touch text box.
As Windows handles this logic rather poorly (it is easily broken in…
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How to prevent On Screen Keyboard from pushing content up?
I'm building a React web app to be used on desktop and touch devices.
When the on screen keyboard appears after a user touches an input field, the entire content gets pushed up as the keyboard rises. This is normal functionality, but I'm looking for…
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Multilingual Onscreen Keyboard
I'm not sure where to post this so I'll post it here. If I've failed to find the right location, please let me know or delete away.
Anyways, for a while now I've been working on a multilingual, onscreen keyboard jQuery plugin for use on touchscreen…
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Cordova 5.3.3 in Windows 10 input field doesn't show On-Screen-Keyboard automatically
We developed a very simple application with just one input field in a div. Running the application on a web browser bring the OSK automatically, as expected. Once we compiled the application using Cordova 5.3.3 as a Windows Universal mode for…
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Disable On-Screen-Keyboard
I'm developing a Windows Store app for an embedded application where the only input device is a small touchscreen. For this reason I'm developing my own number and text entry controls that match the visual look of the application and work better on…
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Getting input from the onscreen Keyboard using libgdx
I am trying to write a game and if they do something it will start up the onscreen keyboard. Then, if they touch a few keys the game will change scenes to a bonus level. I am currently using libgdx and it works great on the desktop version with…
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Prevent wmic.exe from writing TempWmicBatchFile.bat
I want to check within my Java application whether the windows virtual keyboard is already running or not.
I searched for it and found, that I can use wmic.exe to search for a process.
This is what I'm doing:
Process proc =…
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Why can't I scroll all the way to the bottom when onscreen keyboard is active
I have a bunch of controls in a collection of stackpanels that is contained in a grid. The grid is pretty long and runs off the page so I have put it in to a scrollviewer. Everything works perfectly and I can scroll up and down my page until the…
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Virtual OnScreenKeyboard in Silverlight
I'm trying to build an OnScreenKeyboard to fill Textboxes in a Silverlight Web Application. The Keyboard has to be multilingual so that when I have set the language to chinese and enter a small letter like an "a", a combobox has to appear with the…
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Why is osk.exe reported as not existing and does not start?
I see the following in the Explorer:
Now I try to run it using
Shell "C:\Windows\System32\osk.exe", vbNormalFocus
It fails, saying "File not found".
I am confused.
I call:
Shell "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\osk.exe", vbNormalFocus
The same error…
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How do I prevent my window from being docked by virtual keyboard?
When I tap into a textbox in my application, the Microsoft on-screen keyboard appears and shrinks my application window so that my app only occupies 60% of the screen, and the on-screen keyboard occupies the remaining screen space.
How could I…
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