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Hiya Leo, I have tried your suggestion and when Win 8 booted up, hey presto the Virtual Keyboard was there. I am using Metro by the way, as i want to use the touchscreen on its own. Once i minimize the keyboard so that i can see the screen, then i cant get it back again in Metro. Unless there is something i can do to change this. Even if i could get the virtual keyboard to be pinned to Metro as an icon, you cant expect tablet users to come out of an application and back to metro every time, open up the keyboard and then go back to the app they were in, every time they want to type something.
I must be missing something, as i dont think this competes very well with Android or Apple OS on tablets. If it isnt easy, no one will want it. I want to use MS Win 8 on a touchscreen at an event soon, and we currently use iPads. I want to show our company as a technology leader using the latest tools. I believe Win 8 to be the latest, but if it is clunky and too hard for visitors to use, then i wont have it on display at the show.
Hi Jon Nailer, yours is an issue that needs to be dealt with, it's not how CP is supposed to work on a Tablet. Please try the Device Manager, look for driver issues usually highlighted by a yellow exclamation mark. In any case, get all your updates, including the optional one's. You may also check that Tablet PC Components feature is selected in Turn Windows features on or off via Control Panel Programs Programs and Features. I'd also have suggested unselecting the box and selecting it again ( sort of restarting the service ) but I don't know what'll happen if you turn off the tablet component features on a Tablet. Haven't used any.
Just an update post. I have run all the Win8 updates. I even booted the pc with no keyboard and mouse to see if it tricked Win8 into giving me tablet style experience, but no. Nothing, no change. So tapping in a text field while no physical keyboard is attached to the Touchscreen PC doesn’t even bring up the virtual keyboard.
Instead, the user must tap on a small keyboard icon in the task bar to open the keyboard, and then he or she must tap another two buttons to close the keyboard once finished typing. And I find that the keyboard often obscured the text field in which I was typing. Then i cant get the keyboard back again in any app i use.
Please correct me if i am wrong, it appears that there is no way to get Win8 to act like a tablet when using a touchscreen PC? So unless Win8 is installed on a Tablet, it wont work like a tablet!! Whats the point of the new interface on PC's??? Not sure if this will suit your needs but there are basically two types of virtual keyboard available on Windows. One is osk that was mentioned and the other is tablet pc keyboard that is used for tablet scenario. So for the second one, you can enable it by first right clicking the taskbar and click toolbars tab and click Tablet PC Input Panel. Once you do that, you should see the keyboard icon on the taskbar but I don't think the keyboard pops up automatically.
Maybe there is a way to configure it but at least this is probably what you want to experiment with. Hope this helps.
Hiya Ilho, I dont think that makes a lot of difference, because when in Metro you dont have a taskbar. But thanks for the suggestion. I think i have figured out the problem (after lots and lots of reading reviews). I dont think windows has detected the Touch screen properly (because it is USB?), so is not working in tablet mode. Or that the touch screen hardware is not Windows 8 compliant.
From people that have reviewed the Samsung Win 8, they say that it swipes and also keyboard pops up, so i know the OS does it, just not on my touchscreen. The only alternative for people with touchscreens that are not detected properly is an option in the settings that forces tablet mode. Then the keyboard would pop up. Let me know if MS put the option in Settings:). Hi, I’m afraid there’s no such configuration on Windows 8.
You can put the on-screen keyboard shortcut to taskbar, thus you can turn on or turn off it more easily. Thank you for your understanding. Leo Huang TechNet Community Support When I installed the first release of Windows 8, on my tablet PC, the virtual keyboard ALWAYS popped up when I tapped into text field. It also did so when I first installed the latest release but stopped soon afterwards ☹ Any thoughts/solutions to get it to do all the time? The virtual keyboard does popped up automatically when I tapped into text field I'm assuming that was a typo for ' not pop up automatically'?; ) Only in the Desktop where you can toggle it on and off or use the OSK.
It works automatically in Metro mode (provided the OSK isn't already running.) Coincidentally I was in a Metro IE Address bar and seeing the problem symptom in it when I remembered that I already had the OSK.exe running, so then it gets tricky if you have minimized that and don't have a real keyboard. Then you have to bring it up again somehow. But instead of minimizing it I just noticed that there are two features which might make it possible to keep it always on top and not completely minimized: Nav and Fade. Nav lets us have it appear reduced to a single row of 'navigation' keys, so that might be dragged to somewhere inconspicuous but still handy.
Fade allows us to leave the keyboard up, hopefully where it is not obstructing anything we would need to touch but still see what is under it. BTW what application needs F6? For IE F4 would be more useful I think. And a Shift would be handy so we can do things in reverse, not just forwards.; Robert. It seems odd such basic feature necessary for a tablet operation would not be there in the desktop mode. The whole thing does not seem well thought out. Sort of like coding was done before any analysis of use-case scenarios had been worked out.
Now it up to us the users to try to figure out how to make do with what we have been given. FWIW I'm still trying to force myself to use the TIP more on both systems so I can understand the functions available in both. One thing that I have found is that I can transition between the OSK.exe and Touch TIP simply by closing the OSK, so I could take advantage of the TIP for doing cursive input (e.g.
Instead of hunt-and-peck typing) and then correcting using a Touch TIP keyboard. Then by using a keyboard shortcut I could get the OSK going again and leave the Touch Keyboard behind. But that routine relies on the possibility of being able to Enter stuff from the TIP into an area where I can edit and that does not always seem to be the case-viz.
The IE Metro Address bar. Further the only way that I can see of exploiting the ClipBoard (as a workaround) will be to try using diagonal (Editing) Flicks. I haven't even mastered navigational Flicks yet! I have the same problem with my ASUS EP121.
While my virtual keyboard worked perfectly with Windows 7, it does not with the operating system, Windows 8, that was designed for tablets! I have the virtual keyboard pinned to my taskbar, but that's not the same. Also, when I use the keyboard it does not resize to move out of the way of the object/field I'm typing into. This seems like a problem that needs to be addressed. Windows 7 tablet users are also a customer base, not just the people who purchase brand new (btw, my ASUS is only 1 years old) tablets with the Windows 8 software baked in. The keyboard does not pop up when you tap in an input field on the desktop in final (paid for) windows 8. The option to have a small keyboard tab in the upper left of the screen is also missing.
They must have fired all the umpc gang who developed these things that really worked. Now we have windows 8 that works fine if you have a keyboard and mouse, but sucks on a tablet or desktop with touchscreen monitor. Desktop has an acer t203h 23' touchscreen monitor, laptop is an acer iconia 6120 dual screen touchpad with no keyboard. This needs to be solved NOW with a patch, not in some future sp1, please! Found a good third party app, 'hot-virtual-keyboard', that works great in windows 8 although it's $29 bucks after the 30 day trial.
That's almost what I paid for my upgrade. I tested it in the win 8 weather app from the start menu and it worked fine. Works fine in the desktop mode, of course. I did have a little trouble moving and resizing. The zone to get the double arrow to resize or quad arrow to move is only a pixel or two. On the other hand, you probably will want it to dock at the bottom of the screen most of the time, and you can request options like placing the keyboard close to the text field (yes, it will pop up automatically when a text cursor shows up on the screen and disappear when you move out of the field).
It has many different keyboard layouts including a number of really nice ones for two sided thumb use on tablets - including one that swaps numbers for Function keys at the press of an Fn key. You can theoretically design any keyboard you want or tailor any of theirs with a built-in wysiwyg designer. It will show up for the logon password if set that way. Has variable transparency. It does look like some of its advertised capabilities no longer work in internet explorer 10 (they don't claim to work in w8 or ie10).
You used to be able to programmatically move and resize your keyboard window (and more) using javascript in a web page, but it did this by changing the windows title area which seems to have disappeared in ie 10. Do a search for hot-virtual-keyboard. Good thing it seems like a stable tool. I couldn't find anything else at all. Seems like a shame I have to pay so much for basic functionality that comes free with ios and android tablets.