Type using on-screen keyboard

The new vision update (which I must confess I don't like) has removed the on-screen method of data entry (up,down,left,right).
We (my family) liked that.
Now, I have to look up and down to and from the controller while typing in, and trying to read the tiny, tiny text on the controller.
Not very ergonomic or user-freindly. Rubbish really.
Is there a way of displaying an on-screen keyboard to facilitate the better old style method of data entry.

Hi
I dont think that an single Win 8.1 update would affect single keyboard buttons.
This does not make any since to me
Therefore Im not quite sure if its really an software problem.
Do you have an external USB keyboard? Can you test it in connection with your notebook?
The point is that if such USB keyboard would work properly, the software is not the problem but the internal keyboard could be the troublemaker.
I think you should test this before trying to install the system again

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Hi.
I´ve been working for some time on a good OSK solution for my WPF apps, that are running on a tablet. But it´s hard working with the OSK.exe and tabtip.exe, because of several bugs, strange behaviour and no standardized solution to this ordinary problem.
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3. When the textbox loses focus, the keyboard should close automatically, except if the user clicks on another textbox.
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I have been creating a Win8 app for my business and in learning that I discovered they have "LayoutAware" pages. The basic idea behind the LayoutAware page is that they move the page up when the keyboard is active and that different layouts
can be set for the tablet orientation.
You could apply the same basic concept to WPF using VisualStateManager.
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<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:ei="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/2010/interactions"
x:Class="WpfApplication27.MainWindow"
x:Name="Window"
Title="MainWindow"
Width="640" Height="480">
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot">
<VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups>
<VisualStateGroup x:Name="VisualStateGroup">
<VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
<VisualTransition GeneratedDuration="0:0:0.2"/>
</VisualStateGroup.Transitions>
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<Storyboard>
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<Grid.RenderTransform>
<TransformGroup>
<ScaleTransform/>
<SkewTransform/>
<RotateTransform/>
<TranslateTransform/>
</TransformGroup>
</Grid.RenderTransform>
<TextBox TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="TextBox" VerticalAlignment="Top" GotFocus="TextBox_GotFocus" LostFocus="TextBox_LostFocus"/>
<Button Content="Button" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="75"/>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</Window>
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
namespace WpfApplication27
/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class MainWindow : Window
public MainWindow()
this.InitializeComponent();
// Insert code required on object creation below this point.
private void TextBox_GotFocus(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e)
Process.Start("TabTip.exe");
VisualStateManager.GoToElementState(LayoutRoot, "KeyboardOpen", true);
private void TextBox_LostFocus(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e)
Process[] processlist = Process.GetProcesses();
foreach(Process process in processlist)
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process.Kill();
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break;
Now, I'm sure folks get right tired of my shouting Blend. But... if you have Blend you could make short work of setting this up.
If you open your project in Blend, select the xaml page with the design view showing.
Select the "States" tab.
Click the "Add State" button and you can double click the state that appears to rename it or rename it directly in xaml.
Change the Transition Duration if desired.
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I hope that gives you some ideas.
~Christine
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'''''[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode Start Firefox in Safe Mode]'''''
<BR>While you are in safe mode;<BR>
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Hi
On a windows 7 tablet, on the desktop, if I clicked a field (e.g. in Windows Explorer) a small keyboard icon appears with a shortcut to the on-screen-keyboard (OSK).
On windows 8, this no longer appears. Instead you have to click the field, then select the OSK from the taskbar, and then click back in the field before typing.
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There is no point in explaining why MS has decided to do things this or that way and what philosophic reasons they can come up with. MS needs to understand that software has to be accepted by the users and should not irritate them.
But this is irritating.
I thought one of the main concerns of MS was to be as intuitive as possible and provide a most satisfying user experiance - this is definetly not.
Has anyone at MS ever tried to e. g. rename several files in a directory with the touch keyboard? Especially when you get to the bottom of the screen. Then you not only need to have show/hide the keyboard permanently, you even have to bother moving it or
resize the window. That is NO GOOD USER EXPERIANCE!
I'd find it intuitive, if there was a way for developers in WPF or in Windows Forms to tag any UI element if it
Needs a keyboard (making the touch keyboard appear automatically) or
Would like a keyboard (showing a symbol next to the box, just like the X in WindowsStoreApps.TextBox, to trigger the keyboard or make it pop up automatically, if the keyboard had an option that can be set by the user to respond to these UI elements) or
Can have a keyboard (behaviour as is now)
Once an application was built this way, users would intuitively be able to navigate through their beloved apps haveing the keyboard at hand when they will need it anyway, being able to access it just with a twitch of the hand if they want it and not being
annoyed by it when they normally would not need it AND not being annoyed by permanently having to show/hide/show/hide that dratted thing by making miles of hand movement for nothing.
For applications that are not tailormade this way some options to adjust the keyboard behaviour would help, too. Just provide an option to hook the keyboard to any focus change, and give users a selection of options to what major control types the keyboard
should respond. For geeks you could even provide white list where they can add the GUIDs for classes the keyboard should show up automatically, a black list where the keyboard has to disappear and a gray list where the keyboard comes up on enter and disappears
on leave.
Some other thing I'm not happy with:
I know Modern UI came somehow via Windows Phone 7, but our tablets, touch enabled laptops, ... are no telephones, so why has the touch keyboard numpad have the "1" at the top left corner and not at the bottom left like every other hardware keyboard
or even the MS Windows OSK???????? In this point I contradict the explanation in the otherwise quite interesting article about the
Design Concept because typing in numbers has more often to do with maths than with telephoning or switching TV channels. And calculators have the 1,2,3 in the bottom row, as have HW keyboards. The other misconception lies therin that you don't need to find
1,2,3 quicker with your eyes when you are typing lots of numbers e. g. into spreadsheets. The fingers of HW keyboard, calculator or cash register users are so used to the conventional position of the digits that won't be easy to reshape. Additionally when
typing in quantities of numbers right handed users (90% of world population) will have the hand rest on the keyboard, the thumb on 0 and index finger, middle finger, ring finger doing their respective columns low value low down, high value high up. Who
is dialing phone numbers or changing TV channels this way? But what will users do more often with the numpad - especially when dealing with loads of input data?
Why can we not at least have digits on the alpha keyboard like on Android with long press on "Q"="1" ... "P"="0"? Password policy sometimes forces you to add digits in a PW, calling for switch alpha/num/alpha/num which
is annoying, too! Even with the peek thingy, since you need two hands.
Why is there no indication what special characters are hidden behind a long press? It's possible when you press Ctrl, despite most people already knowing what Ctrl+C means. e. g. where is the paragraph sign "§"on the touch keyboard? Or have
you left it out, so lawyers can't sue you for developing this touch keyboard ;-) You have added a set of emojos, but forgotten to put a character on that is on virtually any other keyboard??? Rather give us a layer user/developers could fill with their own
set of special characters and swap the Ctrl hints for a special character preview.
When I have my keyboard docked I can split the alpha key gaining access to the ODD numpad in the middle, but why can I not have the numpad when the alpha stays unsplit in the middle having a big black block to its left and right - there was space, why have
you not used it properly??? Nevermind feeling crowded, as mentioned in the article, give us an checkbox in keyboard options than we can decide if we want it or not. Since the article argues that users tend to get comfortable with the keyboard after a while
and needn't look at it, this "over crowded" feeling would fade away just the same. Or you might even dim it a bit when there is no finger near it.
Where are the Fn keys? Give us an option - we'll decide if we want it e. g. on the left side of the alpha block. Just as with numpad this could be dimmed, too.
I'd have a lot more suggestions to throw into this, but I fear you'll not even pick up on the easiest or most fundamental ones.
Prove me wrong! Please do! I dare you!!!

On Screen Keyboard

I have searched high and low for a fix for this that works, but have yet to find anything.
I have a Gateway laptop running Win8.1. As it is a laptop, I have absolutely no need for the on screen keyboard. However, there is no way that I have found to turn it off. It is bulky, obtrusive, and gets in the way. On a tablet or a Surface, I can see how
it would be useful, but again, I have a laptop. It's just taking up space. There should be a setting to turn it off when it is not needed.
I have found the same couple fixes listed everywhere that have supposedly worked for others and tried them, but nothing has worked. They included disabling the on screen keyboard in the ease of access center (even though it was already disabled), and opening
Services, finding Touch Screen Keyboard and Handwriting, and telling it to stop. I even changed it to a manual start-up instead of automatic, but it didn't work, no matter how many times I switched it over, hit Apply first instead of just Ok, or rebooted after
switching.
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least a way to hide it for good, then that would be incredibly helpful.

Presuming you are using just a laptop without a touch screen interface, you’re right – you do not need access to the on screen keyboard nor should it be popping up. If your laptop includes a touch screen interface then we have a bit more troubleshooting
to do. For the next paragraph of this response I am going with the assumption you are using a standard laptop, without any touch features.
There should be an icon in the bottom right hand corner that is shaped like a keyboard if you click it then the keyboard should disappear and reappear on each subsequent click. If the icon is not present, you can add it by right clicking on your taskbar,
selecting properties, then selecting the toolbars tab and checking the touch keyboard box. One thing that is important to note though is that if the touch screen keyboard shows on the screen, it should automatically disappear. Since the automatic disappearing
feature does not sound as though it is the case with your scenario then I am wondering if you have a corrupt install of Windows 8.1 on your system. It might be best to attempt a repair install or, on a worst case scenario basis, a clean install.
Now, if you do have a touch screen laptop and are referring to the keyboard that pops up in the Windows Modern UI apps then that’s an entirely different answer. While there isn’t a specific or documented method for turning the on-screen touch keyboard entirely,
there is a way to
effectively disable the keyboard by stopping the service that controls it.
Press the Windows key + W
Type "services," and press Enter
Scroll down to "Touch screen keyboard and handwriting panel"
You can either right click and "Stop" or you can double-click and change it from "Automatic" startup to "Manual."
"This will of course, disable both the touch keyboard and handwriting service, so you'll lose handwriting recognition. This was totally worth it to me and has made my touch screen laptop experience much better, especially when I'm using the Full Screen
Browser. I hope this helps!"

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