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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How to avoid memory leak in code of Win 7 - Onscreen keyboard while clicking in textbox inside web browser control in wpf (C#)
I am developing WPF - Web browser control based kiosk application.
I have implemented the feature like when somebody clicks on any textbox inside the page rendered in wpf web browser control then onscreen keyboard will open.
But the code which I…

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How to adjust screen when keyboard open in windows phone 8?
I am working in Windows phone 8. In One of the pages of my app there is a LongListSelector and under it there is a TextBox. When the TextBox get focused then keyboard is opened. As the keyboard is opened then the LongListSelector is shifted up by…

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How to show the On-Screen-Keyboard in Windows 7/8 by clicking on a text input?
Is there a way to trigger and show the On-Screen-Keyboard in Windows 7/8 when the user clicks onto a text-input (like a form in a normal html page)?
I think that the behaviour is similar of that of mobile-phones or tablets, but i would have a…

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Trouble with onscreen keyboard orientation in iPhone OpenGL ES application
I need to take keyboard input in my OpenGL ES application, so I just created a hidden UITextField and added it as a subview to the main window along with the view that presents my content. I use the UITextField to control the keyboard and it works…

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Onscreen keyboard on Android does not send correct keycodes for second language
I have the application with NativeActivity.
I wish to show onscreen keyboard and to listen to keys pressed. Everything works fine when I am typing in english, but when I switch keyboard to russian I receive only zeroes for keycode, metastate etc.
To…

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Python on screen keyboard
I am in the middle of creating a tablet for my RPI and i am i need of a way to control the keyboard from the screen so i think my best bet is an on screen keyboard.
My question is how would i go about doing this in python and what if any libraries…

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Tkinter Popup Keyboard Library
Before I go reinventing the wheel. Is there a (more or less) standard library for a popup keyboard for Tkinter?
I need both a popup number pad (0-9,.,...ect) and a full keyboard (a-Z,A-Z,0-9,.,...etc).
I currently have a nice number pad, but (as…

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Is it possible in c# to show, hide, and manipulate the Windows 8 on-screen keyboard?
I am making a WPF application that is to be used on a kiosk with no hardware keyboard. Currently we are using a third party on-screen keyboard, but the Windows 8 version is a lot better and we are thinking of switching to it.
So my question is…

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Sendkeys sends no or multiple strings
I made a keyboard in Windows.Forms with many Buttons and the content of them are the different characters of the Alphabet like a real keyboard.
Now the problem is when I am using the Keyboard in Windows 7 everything works perfectly. But when I use…

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Enter password on a Touch Keyboard without other people seeing it
I have a kind of security problem.
In Delphi I am using Vcl.Touch.Keyboard.TTouchKeyboard because there is no real keyboard on a machine. There are 4 monitors around this machine which are all displaying the same screen.
There is no problem while…

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Show on-screen keyboard when external keyboard is plugged in
I have an external device I am using, which tells my android device it is a keyboard. However, it only has a few buttons and is not actually a full keyboard. In Jetpack Compose, none of my text input fields will show the on-screen keyboard when…

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Osk.exe not killed properly and continu working in background
I am trying to kill instance of Osk.exe programmatically.
I have a dialogue that allow user to start osk with a button, and if they do not close it themself I close it via the code in closing form.
My code look like this for creation and closing.
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Is there any Tamil virtual keyboard for react web application?
Is there any Tamil virtual keyboard for react web application, I tried simple-Keyboard and virtual-keyboard package but can't find Tamil language in it.
Any suggestion for Tamil virtual keyboard?

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Electron custom web browser with on screen keyboard
I am trying to make a custom web browser inside an electron application. Using webview (because iframe is not loading some necessary web pages) I can load a web page.
Then trying to write something into the web page´s input by clicking on the…

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What event listener should I use for on-screen keyboard if not keyEvents?
I have a code that goes like this in my java swing program:
JTextField textfield = (JTextField) txtNameID.getEditor().getEditorComponent();
textfield.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter() {
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent ke) {
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