We have a full-screen application developed in WPF that will be used on the touch interface. As part of this project, I developed a style-based virtual keyboard that will be used for input when the application is launched on the touch device. Everything works fine, except for the appearance of the Windows virtual keyboard input icon that appears when a user clicks on a text field (for example).
What we would like to do is disconnect the Windows keyboard from activation when the user captures the focus on the “specific” input controls. We can still use the keyboard in other input areas, such as open or save file dialogs, so disabling the keyboard for an application or globally is not an option.
I found the MSDN documentation, which suggests that a possible solution would be to use the TextInputPanel from the Microsoft.Ink namespace. However, the latest version of this code is 3.5 (this is app 4.0), and I cannot find the DLL anywhere.
Any suggestions at this stage would be greatly appreciated ...
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