SearchBox double characters when FocusOnKeyboardInput is set to true and using on screeen keyboard on Surface

Question

Hi,

in my app I have a SearchBox control with FocusOnKeyboardInput set to True:

<SearchBox FocusOnKeyboardInput="True" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="200" Margin="0,68,60,0" />

When I run my application on Surface RT (with no keyboard attached), and I tap the search box control to enter a text, each time I press a key in the onscreen keyboard, the character is added twice in the search box control.
If I set FocusOnKeyboardInput to False, the problem is no more present.

Is this a bug of the SearchBox control?

Answer 1

I can't reproduce this.  I am not sure what's going on in your environment.

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Answer 2

Hi Matt,

here you can find a sample application to reproduce the problem:

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=9254CCAFCE7EE400!7499&authkey=!AJfyhwaf12msB1I&ithint=file%2c.zip

I have a Surface RT (first version) with Windows RT in English UK with Italian keyboard.

This is a screenshot of the problem:

Answer 3

I can reproduce this on Surface RT but not on my non-RT machine.  I will ask about this.

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NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with undefined objects and unknown namespaces.

Answer 4

FYI: this is a bug and we are working on a fix.  I don't know when it will be released, and I couldn't say if I did know. :-)

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Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator
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NOTE: If I ask for code, please provide something that I can drop directly into a project and run (including XAML), or an actual application project. I'm trying to help a lot of people, so I don't have time to figure out weird snippets with undefined objects and unknown namespaces.