I'm developing a touchscreen application. I developed my own on-screen keyboard from scratch, as my app needs to work even on non tablet-enabled operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows 2000. My app is pure Win32 (VS6), and I'm using the Touch API
by dynamically loading User32.dll and calling RegisterTouchWindow.
My problem is that when running on a tablet-enabled OS (such as Windows 7),
Windows own OSK icon automatically pops up. While this is very helpful in most apps, , in mine it only adds clutter, as it requires extra clicks to perform the same function.
How can I disable Windows on-screen keyboard for my application only? Disabling it for each edit-box would also be acceptable, as would just hiding the pop-up icon.
My edit-box (despite the integrated look), for compatibility reasons, IS a standard Win32 edit-box, however it's hidden by using a null region and displayed through WM_PRINT with what amounts to a pixel search-and-replace algorithm. I guess I did too good
of a job on compatibility, as the OSK icon comes up ;).
Best regards,
///Leif
