How to: Set the Keyboard Input Scope for Windows Phone
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4/22/2010
The on-screen keyboard can be used to input text on a Windows Phone, and it is deployed automatically when a TextBox control becomes active. Windows Phone has several context-specific on-screen keyboard layouts that you can use for application development including the keyboard types in the following table:
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Keyboard Type |
Layout |
|---|---|
|
Default |
Standard QWERTY layout |
|
Text |
Standard layout with ASCII-based emoticons |
|
E-mail Address |
Standard layout with .com and @ keys |
|
Phone Number |
Typical 12-key layout |
|
Web Address |
Standard layout with .com key and customized Enter key |
|
Maps |
Standard layout with a customized Enter key |
|
Search |
Semi-transparent layout with a Search and .com key |
|
SMS Address |
Standard layout with easy access to phone number layout |
To set the input scope
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Open any project and on MainPage.xaml, drag a TextBox control from the Toolbox onto the designer. You can also create a TextBox control directly using the following XAML code. You may position or scale the control based on your preference.
<TextBox Height="31" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="31,256,0,0" Name="textBox1" Text="TextBox" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="423" > </TextBox> -
In the XAML code, between the <TextBox></TextBox> tags, add the following code to set the input scope. For this example, the “Url” keyboard layout is selected and a .com key is exposed.
<TextBox.InputScope> <InputScope> <InputScopeName NameValue="Url"/> </InputScope> </TextBox.InputScope>
