Code review comment for lp:~baratosha23/stellarium/stellarium

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Vladislav Bataron (baratosha23) wrote :

> Isn't there a better method for doing this? I would be surprised that Qt
> doesn't provides a clean way for that. Virtual keyboard work natively on
> mobile plateforms.
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> Also, something like this is very dangerous:
> ShellExecuteA(NULL, "open", "\"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\microsoft
> shared\\ink\\TabTip.exe\"", "", 0, SW_NORMAL);

Unfortunately qt and the Win32 API does not have the normal method call the touch screen keyboard.
Please see BWK_readme.txt in sample - https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/06/11/touch-keyboard-access-for-windows-8-desktop-apps

I can try to use qml to create on-screen keyboard.
http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/5516
http://doc.qt.digia.com/QtVirtualKeyboard/qtvirtualkeyboard-enterprise-virtualkeyboard-virtualkeyboard-virtualkeyboard-qml.html
Do this?

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