Display Windows Touch Keyboard

[claudia85]

i am writing an application for windows 8 with Qt and Qml. I want a touch keyboard appears when I set focus to a text input field, such as a search box. Things like textInput.openSoftwareInputPanel(); doesn't work for a desktop application. Windows 8 have a default touch keyboard, it is possible to display this keyboard. I can't find any solution for this problem. Can anyone help me?

[FinitelyFailed]

I'm sorry that I am a bit late. But this C++ code might help:

Show the keyboard (tabtip):
ShellExecute(NULL, _TEXT("open"), _TEXT("C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Ink\TabTip.exe"), NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
QString keyboardProgram = "explorer.exe";
QString keyboardFolder = "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Ink\TabTip.exe";
QProcess process = mKeyboardProcess->start(keyboardProgram, QStringList() << keyboardFolder);

Hide the keyboard:
HWND wKB = ::FindWindow(_TEXT("IPTip_Main_Window"), NULL);
if (wKB != NULL && ::IsWindowVisible(wKB))
{
if (!::PostMessage(wKB, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_CLOSE, 0))
{
int error = ::GetLastError();
LogError("Failed to hide touch keyboard error code: " + std::to_string(error), UTIL);
}
}