Open Virtual Keyboard / On-Screen Keyboard (OSK)

[ekasetiawans]

Does application will show virtual keyboard automatically on touch screen computer that dont have phisical keyboard?

Or, how to catch open keyboard request? I'll trying to open virtual keyboard manually.

[pchampio]

go-flutter side

Currently, nothing is done on the go-flutter side when the engine sends show and hide keyboards events.

go-flutter/textinput.go

Lines 54 to 56 in 87e0b2f

	// Ignored: Desktop's don't have a virtual keyboard, so there is no need to show or hide it
	p.channel.HandleFuncSync("TextInput.show", func(_ interface{}) (interface{}, error) { return nil, nil })
	p.channel.HandleFuncSync("TextInput.hide", func(_ interface{}) (interface{}, error) { return nil, nil })

In the future, those events coming form the internal flutter/textinput MethodChannel could be expose to end-developers through a new Options hooks.
The golang code quite straightforward to write, I'll leave this issue open for first-time contributor!

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end dev side (hover users)

After a bit on googleing, the windows exe to open the on-screen keyboard seems to be Tabtip.exe.
For now, I don't want to add this functionality into the go-flutter code, I'll be much better if those special use cases are handled by hover users. Nonetheless, a quick and temporary Tips-and-tricks section can be written.

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edit: miss-clicked the closed button 🥇 , reopening this valid request.

[pchampio]

https://github.com/go-flutter-desktop/go-flutter/wiki/Tips-and-tricks#3-open-the-virtual-keyboard-on-text-edit

For windows and OSX, it's up to the community to adapt the above tip&trick.

[ekasetiawans]

woow, thanks @Drakirus

[ekasetiawans]

I create this for showing windows virtual keyboard.

Link

[ekasetiawans]

I have try
exec.Command("osk") or exec.Command("tabtip.exe") but not working.

[pchampio]

I do not run on windows so I can't help you.
If it is not possible to open the virtual keyboard in go, maybe try to craft a .bat file that opens the virtual keyboard, and call it from go?

[ekasetiawans]

@Drakirus , yes it's not possible to open the virtual keyboard in go. I got the requested operation requires elevation. But, now I have solution. I use user32.dll to showing virtual keyboard from tray icon instead of execute osk.exe or tabtip.exe. But this only works on windows 10 and you have to show touch screen keyboard on tray icon.

This is the link

Maybe someone can review my work.

[pchampio]

Thanks for sharing.