A virtual keyboard is a software component that allows a user to enter characters. A virtual keyboard can usually be operated with multiple input devices, which may include a touchscreen, an actual Computer keyboard and a computer mouse.
Questions tagged [virtual-keyboard]
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Kivy virtual keyboard not showing
I have a Kivy app which I have developed on my MacBook Pro Retina running OS X 10.9.2, Kivy 1.8.0 and Python 2.7.
The production environment is a PC running Windows 7, Kivy 1.8.0 and Python 2.7. It has six screens.
In my config I have set the…

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Happy Emoji entered into a WPF textbox from a Windows 10 virtual keyboard is NOT captured in the textbox's PreviewTextInput event
I want to disable entering all Emojis (emotion icons) into my input fields in a WPF application. The way I've implemented it is:
txtUserName.PreviewTextInput += LoginPreviewTextInput;
And the LoginPreviewTextInput looks as following:
private void…

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Why doesn't the virtual keyboard go away?
I have a pretty simple screen with a couple of EditText widgets and a button. In the emulator, when I click on the EditText widget, a virtual keyboard comes up. However, I can't seem to get rid of it. Clicking on an empty space on the screen does…

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Virtual keyboard for the Pi with auto-hide functionality
I am using PyGObject to create an UI that will be run on a 7" official RPi touchscreen connected to a Pi 3 running Raspbian. As part of this interface, the UI will need an on-screen keyboard. I am aware of two virtual keyboard programs for the Pi:…

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SendInput() isn't "sending" the correct shifted characters?
void WriteChar(char c)
{
INPUT input = {0};
input.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
input.ki.wVk= VkKeyScanEx(c, GetKeyboardLayout(0) ) ;
SendInput(1,&input, sizeof(INPUT));
}
VkKeyScanEx returns different key codes for '/' and '?'(same…

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Prev and next buttons for pickers in Sencha Touch 2
I'm building an App for Android, iOS and Blackberry with Sencha Touch 2.0.1.
I have a Form-Panel with about 10 selectfields and some sextfields. If i ran the app on Android 2.3 or higher, the selectfields are shown as pickers. So far so good.
When…

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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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Web view virtual keyboard handling in android
I have a text box in web view, when tap that text box default android keyboard up to enter the text, with GO button in virtual keyboard. I need to handle that GO button press in android.I tried with KeyUp and KeyDown function in default activity ,…

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TTouchKeyboard: send keystroke to other program?
How do I use TTouchKeyboard in Delphi, so it could send keystrokes to other program. For example, I want to type password in a browser using TTouchKeyboard component. I have no idea how make the browser stay focus while I'm clicking on my keyboard.

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Compile Virtual Keyboard for Qt WebAssembly
I'm trying to compile the virtual keyboard project example from QtCreator in WebAssembly.
To compile for wasm library have to be linked statically. According to the docs:
Static builds
The virtual keyboard can be built and linked statically against…

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What is the keycode for "Next" in android virtualKeyBoard
I am enhancing (in an angular directive) the google places autocomplete input to select the first option if none is selected.
I am using the below code, which works like a charm when using "tab" or "enter" key.
Unfortunatly it is not working on…

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Delphi 2010 virtual keyboard, start with CapsLock on?
Delphi 2010 Enterprise
How can I automatically turn the CapsLock on when the virtual keyboard is displayed.

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Determine if Windows 10 Touch Keyboard is Visible or Hidden
I am trying to find out if the windows 10 virtual touch keyboard is visible or not to know whether to open it or not from my application. THe following code has worked fine up until the latest Windows 10 update 15063 or possible the one right before…

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JavaFX virtual keyboard overlaps nodes
i have a question about using virtual keyboard on touch supported pc with Windows 8.1. I have managed to show the virtual keyboard when textfield is focused with java switch:
-Dcom.sun.javafx.isEmbedded=true…

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Mottie's Virtual Keyboard: direct input
There is an excellent jQuery on-screen keyboard plugin by Mottie:
https://github.com/Mottie/Keyboard
By default text from the keyboard goes into additional input and then can be accepted or cancelled. If text is accepted it goes into the source…

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