TextBox focus

Grasshopper Human UI
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Hello,

I’m preparing an interface that will be used with a touchscreen and I was wondering if there is a way to detect if a textbox is currently active to use it’s state to launch an on-screen keyboard.

Thanks,
M.

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This is not currently possible in Human UI, but it at least seems possible to implement: (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19085931/how-to-make-wpf-input-control-show-virtual-keyboard-when-it-got-focus-in-touch-s). If you or anyone wants to take a stab at implementing this [in the code] for the TextBox component (https://bitbucket.org/andheum/humanui/src/master/) I’d be happy to include it - I’m afraid I don’t have much free time right now to add any new features in human UI myself.

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Thanks Andrew,

I think that for now my solution would be adding a button that executes osk.exe,
but I’ll make a try at adding such indicator to the TextBox.

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Hi Michael – check out this twitter thread:

These are not official features yet, they are under review and no guarantee on timetable – if you are savvy with Git and Visual Studio, you can pull the branch and build from source.

Cheers,
Marc

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Hi Marc,

Looks very interesting, thank you! I’ll be glad to try it if you don’t mind sharing the link.

Followed you on twtter anyway :wink:

Best,
Michael

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Thanks a lot Marc! The “Focus listener” definitely provides a solution to the problem.

Also, the “Mouseover Listener” might help me with another issue that I had recently =)

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Glad to hear it! If you can share a short video of the UI in action, I would love to see it – I love this use case, didn’t even think about it!

Cheers,
Marc