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Method 2: Open On-Screen Keyboard from Run or Command Prompt Open the Control Panel and select either Large icons or Small icons in the View by menu. Method 1: Open On-Screen Keyboard from Control Panel In this tutorial we’ll show you 6 ways to turn on / open On-Screen Keyboard in Windows 10. You can use your mouse or other pointing device to type the keys.

ON SCREEN KEYBOARD WINDOWS 10

If for nothing else, then because there's no clean way to hide the keyboard opened by running the TabTip.exe (solutions include hacks like killing the process or sending Esc key).Īnd actually the above hack does not seem to work anymore in Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Show touch keyboard (TabTip.exe) in Windows 10 Anniversary edition.On-Screen Keyboard is a virtual keyboard that can be used in place of a physical keyboard. The most common "solution" to this problem, to explicitly popup the keyboard by running the TabTip.exe or osk.exe, is hardly acceptable. There must be a different machinery behind them.

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Though interestingly, controls, for which touch keyboard works out-of-the-box (like combo box or password edit box, see the answer), do not implement the WM_GETOBJECT/ RootObjectId.

or directly poster's article Implementing TextBox with on-screen touch keyboard.

To bind the implementation of the interfaces to the control, handle WM_GETOBJECT window message with lParam = RootObjectId. For that implement the ITextProvider/ IValueProvider interfaces for the respective input control. On can achieve that for example by calling seeming no-op: AutomationElement.FromHandle(IntPtr)(-1)Īnother way is to implement automation UI explicitly. One can use implementation of UI automation from UIAutomationClient.dll.įor the UI automation to be magically injected into an application, class initializer of the assembly internal class UiaCoreApi have to be triggered. For some reasons that are a mystery to me, the standard Windows edit box does not implement UI automation, while other controls, like combo box, do. The touch keyboard leverages the UI automation.

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This means my attempts to close or kill it fail.Īccording to this thread, if the user manually opens the keyboard (or I programmatically launch it), the keyboard will not automatically close/hide when the text field loses focus: Windows 8 - How to Dismiss Touch Keyboard? I tried the workaround of setting the focus to a hidden button, but since I launched the keyboard myself, it doesn't close automatically. The process, this.keyboardProc, does not seem to get the handle, and immediately has property HasExited = true. However, I still have the problem of programmatically closing the keyboard when I'm done. This works on my Win7 and Win8, regardless of my 32-bit app on 64-bit OS. This.keyboardProc = Process.Start(keyboardPath) String keyboardPath = Path.Combine(progFiles, "TabTip.exe")

I am now launching the "Touch Keyboard" as opposed to the "On-Screen Keyboard" (which is the keyboard I wanted on Windows 8 anyway) with: string progFiles = Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ink" Is this normal or am I missing something? I've found that the keyboard is not automatically launched in Windows 8 when in Desktop mode (which my app is): Apparently it works on Windows 7 tablets, but I can't test because I only have Windows 8 tablets here. I was hoping that running my app on a tablet would automatically launch the on-screen keyboard when the user selects a textbox, but no luck.Is there an easier or correct way to do this?.I found a possible workaround here, which is a little more complicated than what I was looking for (post by eryang): For the sysnative path, Process.Start fails with "Cannot find the path specified." For the system32 and osk.exe paths, I get the "Could not start the on-screen keyboard" error dialog.

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I've tried the code posted by WooCaSh here:īut none of the three different paths work for me. It appears to be because I am running a 32-bit app on a 64-bit OS. I have found many threads on launching the Windows on-screen keyboard ( osk.exe) from an application, but I am running into some problems.

Developing 32-bit app that runs on 64-bit OS (Windows 7, Windows 8 - desktop app).