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Question by fbontin · Aug 23, 2017 at 12:37 PM · editorkeyboardwindows 10windows store apptouchscreenkeyboard

Launching windows touch keyboard in editor

Hi!

I am making a touch app using Unity 2017.1 and Windows 10.

I am trying to launch the keyboard while playing in the editor using this code:

    var keyboard = TouchScreenKeyboard.Open("test");

However, it does not show up and the keyboard.active is set to false.

So I have two questions:

  1. Is it not possible to show the keyboard while playing in the editor?

  2. How can I make the keyboard show up? Do I need to convert it to a Windows Store App?

Thanks!

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Answer by Tomasek · Aug 23, 2017 at 12:42 PM

Hey, i found this: "In C#, you can simply write the following line of code to invoke the on-screen keyboard application that comes with Windows:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("osk.exe");"

Hope it helps.

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Hi. Thanks for the tip!

I tried this but it launches a different keyboard, not the one tradionally used for Windows touch screens. You can launch it be searching "on screen keyboard" in the windows menu.

But I would like to launch what Windows call the "touch keyboard". See the image below:

Windows touch keyboard

avatar image Tomasek fbontin · Aug 23, 2017 at 12:55 PM 0
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Then find the name of the program and launch it the same way!

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I tried doing that before, using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("tabtip.exe");

It kind of works, as the keyboard show up most of the time. But I wouldn't call it reliable. It would be nice to do it with Unity's built-in support though.

But thank you!

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It cant be done, bcs this is windows feature, so you need to use .NET.

avatar image fbontin Tomasek · Aug 23, 2017 at 01:42 PM 0
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Okay, then I must have interpreted the text about the TouchScreen$$anonymous$$eyboard wrong. Thank you for the help :-)

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Answer by CheritDeveloper · Jun 11, 2020 at 10:04 AM

I have created an easy to use script that makes the Windows Onscreen Keyboard popup when a (TextMeshPro) inputfield is selected. https://gist.github.com/SteefmanV/f9df806f3036020dd8a322edde572dc4

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