Is there anyway to control virtual keyboard?

Question

Hi,

I want call out the virtual keyboard by code.

I tried to call focus() on text box, but I found it required an extra tab on the text box to bring up the virtual keyboard.

Is is possible to control virtual keyboard in JavaScript Metro APP?

Thanks in advanced.

cheers

Alex

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woodhead is as woodhead does

Answer 1

Hi Alex,

No, the keyboard is under the control of the user.

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 2

And the keys that are displayed in the keyboard cannot be customized by the app? Like to show only numbers for certain input fields?

Answer 3

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your answer.

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woodhead is as woodhead does

Answer 4

Hi Jeff,

Just to double check. There is absolutely no way that the app can focus a text box and have the user ready to enter text?

The user has to always manually tap on the text box to bring up the keyboard... so effectively he has to tap in every text box?

This seems very awkward to me.

thanks.

Patrick

Answer 5

Hi Patrick,

No...

Once the user has entered a text box, the keyboard will be envoked, if you tab using the keyboard or tap into a text box the keyboard remains up.

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 6

Did I say that Phil? :-)

The keyboard will configure based on the input type.

For example try this: <input type=number> you will see the soft keyboard brings up the number keyboard.

url will add the / and .com

email will add the @

search will give you a search button

telephone will be number...

see this page: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/Forms/Default.html

-Jeff

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Jeff Sanders (MSFT)

Answer 7

Great Jeff, will use that definitely in our app... once we got it working with the current RP build