OSK help

**karrhacker** · 08-06-2006, 04:40 PM

I have a new problem, I have figured out how to get an app to load into a picture box in VB but now I need an onscreen keyboard. I have tried to use both the OSK.exe from MS and using SENDKEYS in vb, but it only works when the app is out side of the picture box... I cannot give the app focus as it does not show up as a running app when in the Picturebox ??? Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Or at least an idea of what direction to take to solve this problem...?

Thanks..

**DJiK** · 08-06-2006, 04:55 PM

Does the app HAVE to run in the picturebox, or can it run on its own in a separate window?
If you can make it run in a window, just use relative coordinates and position it near the OSK (or whereever you want it). Then, at the press of a button, give the app focus, let it do its thing, and come back to the OSK.

**karrhacker** · 08-06-2006, 04:59 PM

Basicly I have embeded Streets and trips in a vb screen using a picturebox so that no matter the resolution it will be the correct size for the desined skin.. And that part works perfectly.. But with out a mouse or keyboard i need to use an OSK for entering info in to S&T . But once it loads it looses focus and thus does nothing...

**DJiK** · 08-06-2006, 05:02 PM

In that case, I would use the SendMessage command to send the text directly to the input box of S&T.
You need to have some sort of a Windows Spy tool to figure out the hwnd handles of the input box (and corresponding dialogues) and all that good stuff.
Take a look at Winspector Spy.

**karrhacker** · 08-06-2006, 09:36 PM

The SENDMESSAGE works fine as long as S&T is on the taskbar, but once its inside the picturebox the taskbar icon disappears and I cannot access it for some reason??

**DJiK** · 08-06-2006, 10:22 PM

Have you checked the Incoming/Outgoing message to and fro S&T?
You can still follow it via Winspector.
Look for the S&T class name in the spy program.

**karrhacker** · 08-07-2006, 06:21 PM

Okay I seem to be having allot of problems with this for some reason..??? Maybe I’m not getting it or something? Do you know of any examples that I can look at?