Closed Bug 741320 Opened 13 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Display the soft keyboard when text is selected and no physical keyboard is attached

Categories

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

x86_64
Windows 8.1
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: jimm, Assigned: jimm)

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Details

(Whiteboard: completed-elm)

From what I've found we don't have a way of bringing this up via code, we only receive events - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.viewmanagement.inputpane.aspx It looks like metro expects us to use native input controls and as such it will control the visibility of the soft keyboard. IE has this working however so maybe there is a way to do this.
OS: Windows 7 → Windows 8 Metro
If under the hood this is using the text services framework, we might be able to solve this via nsTextStore support.
Summary: Display the input panel when text is selected and no physical keyboard is attached → Display the soft keyboard when text is selected and no physical keyboard is attached
Blocks: 743472
Blocks: 743690
This is latched in via UIA.
Assignee: nobody → jmathies
Blocks: 741454
The basics for this support landed on elm yesterday. Advanced text selection via touch and the UIA selection interfaces will happen in bug 743690. http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/elm/rev/072177ac7736
Whiteboard: completed-elm
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
OS: Windows 8 Metro → Windows 8.1
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