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c#windowswinformstouch
dertrautmann
dertrautmann

Reputation: 73

Keyboard Winforms on Windows 10 (surface)

i have my WinForms Application running on a Surface Pro with Windows 10 in Tablet Mode. No Physical Keyboard attached.

I launch my Application and when I hit a TextBox the touch keyboard does not appear. (Its a simple Windows.Forms.TextBox Control) With my custom Control that inherits from the TextBox it does not work as well.

When I "click" in a ComboBox the touch keyboard comes to the front. It also appears when I click in my custom ComboBox that inherits from Windows.Forms.ComboBox.

When I click to a TextBox after I clicked a ComboBox the opened touch keyboard closes.

How can I solve my problem? is there a c# command I can add to the control in order to force the apparition of the touch keyboard?

I already changed the setting "Show the touch keyboard or handwriting panel when not in tablet mode and there's no keyboard attached" to "On", because I read that in another thread, but nothing changed.

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2542

Answers (1)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 987

I would suggest the following code in the event handler:

var progFiles = @"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ink";
var keyboardPath = Path.Combine(progFiles, "TabTip.exe");

this.keyboardProc = Process.Start(keyboardPath);

What we are doing there, is manually launching the Touch Keyboard.

This should work, however you may have a problem dismissing the keyboard automatically after the textbox lost its focus.

By the way, did you check the following option is enabled?

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Upvotes: 0

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