i have an app that is intended for a pc with a touchscreen display. I have a built in keyboard for the app. Every time i click a textBox windows displays the icon for me to open windows keyboard. How do i disable that from poping up in my app, BUT still let it pop up outside my app?
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I have a kiosk style app, for employees to register gas consumption. and is all made for a tactil screen. When i click either a textBox or a comboBox the icon prompting me to open windows keyboard pops up. I want to stop that from happening since the app already has a keyboard. However, employees can still get access to regular windows, so when they do i want this pop up to happen naturally on the rest of the computer. So, i just want to stop this from happening in my app, and all the solutions i have came across are for windows in generally and not app specific. How to stop this icon from poping up in my app?
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I am developing an UWP application in which i used graphics capture picker to select the window to record, but i want, when some one select window then UWP application should get minimize and that other display should come into focus
If the user minimizes a uwp app or switches to another app, this uwp app will be suspended. Besides, GraphicsCapturePicker control must be called from a UI thread, which means it will prevent the GraphicsCapturePicker control from appearing if the uwp app is minimized.
Therefore, I have to say that there is no way could implement your requirement.
I am currently working in a UWP application. I have a situation where I need to open the taptip keyboard. The device needs to be in desktop mode and the keyboard should open on a button click. Is there any way I can achieve this functionality?
I know it works fine in tablet mode when a text box gets focus but I need to get it done in desktop mode and on a button click.
I know it can be done from a console application using System.Diagnostics.Process but I need a way around for uwp app.
The user can enable the tip to show when a text box gets focus in a desktop app by setting the "Show the touch keyboard when not in tablet mode and there's no keyboard attached". Apps should generally defer to the user's preferences on this rather than trying to override this themselves.
That said, you can show and hide the InputPane via the InputPane.TryShow and InputPane.TryHide methods.
You'll do essentially the same from a desktop app via the IInputPaneInterop and IInputPane2 interfaces. Launching tabtip.exe explicitly is limited and not generally recommended.
I am developing a banking application for Windows Phone 8.1 RT. For security reason I need to grey out or show an image in my application when it goes background.
It's like when application is running user presses windows button then press and hold back button at that time application's current page is visible. I need to show a image on that view.
When application is running if user press and hold back button at that time also irrespective of page I need to grey my application or show an image.
I have tried changing the opacity of frame in On suspending event it is not reflecting. I have also tried in Window visibility changed event changing the opacity of Window.Content but it's not working too.
Please help me with some pointers on how to achieve this.
There isn't a good way to do this. The app doesn't suspend until several seconds after it has left the screen, so it is too late for the app to change its UI then. Window.Activated would be closer, but is still too late.
ApplicationView.IsScreenCaptureEnabled will prevent capturing a screenshot of the page either in the app or on the task switcher page, but won't prevent the image from showing at all.
The least bad may be to call Application.Current.Exit to close the application completely when deactivated. This is generally a user unfriendly idea, but it will remove the app from the task switcher one it closes (it will probably show up briefly first though).
You can post feature requests on http://wpdev.uservoice.com
In this occasion the problem I'm facing is related with the icon that appears in the metro menu in Windows 8, when developing an App. At the beginig, I was able to see the icon when developing the App (pressing F5). However, now I can't see the App Icons in the Metro menu. But when searching the App using the Windows icon + Q, I can see the icon of my app.
I realized out the this star happening when I was changing the default splash screen and icons by a custom ones. I have a red icon for the spalsh screen for scale 100 saying: A mixture of images with and without "scale" or "targetsize" qualifiers exists in this project for the logical name "Assets...." When a mixture exists, files without the qualifier are ignored.
I'm not sure if this is causing that the icon is not appearing.
Does any one have a clue?
Regards!
In Windows 8.1 new installed Application doesn't appear in the start menu automatically. You have to pin them there.
For this got to the metro start menu, swipe down (or click the arrow at the bottom left), search for your app -> select it -> select pin to start in the app bar.
How do I get the state of the Show-Desktop toggle?
Goal:
Show the taskbar when show desktop is toggled and desktop is shown
Hide the taskbar when show desktop is toggled and windows are restore
Problem:
I can toggle show desktop and I can show or hide the taskbar but I cannot find a way to determine the state of the "show desktop" toggle.
I'm working in C# in VS 2010 with .net 2.0 (if it has to have later version .net ok, but I suspect the answer is somewhere in win32 with a pinvoke. Just can't find it)
This app is for a touch screen where getting to a auto-hidden taskbar is nearly impossible. Normally the taskbar is hidden but users would like to get to it when they click show desktop. (i.e. please no non-constructive comments on windows doesn't want you to change the autohide state without user permission)
Semi-Solution that technically meets my project requirements but not the intent of them:
Show the start menu any time show desktop toggles. Of course the start menu disappears when you click anywhere else but... It was shown.
There are several tutorials on how to do this. Just Google