Xbox one soft keybiard

Windows UWP
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I am close to having my app complete and have written a TextBox control which works perfect on pc and can type in correctly. My issue is on Xbox one I want to display the virtual keyboard and if I try guide.beginshowkeyboard I get an exception saying not supported. Has anyone managed to display a virtual keyboard on the Xbox one?

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Ok after doing much reading and googling I have solved the issue here it is incase anyone else has the question.

                if (inputPane == null)
                {
                    inputPane = InputPane.GetForCurrentView();
                }
                inputPane.TryShow();
                inputPane.Showing += inputPane_Showing;
                inputPane.Hiding += inputPane_Hiding;

Once you have the on screen keyboard showing it works the same as a hardware keyboard

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Thank you for sharing, could you link your source too or was it offline? Eitherway, a greatly appreciated contribution!

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Of course it was https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.UI.ViewManagement.InputPane. Another point of help for people I have found if you use the Guide.BeginShowOnScreenKeyboard a lot people myself included are getting an exception about licensing this is not a mongame issue its windows. On my laptop I have no osk but on my desktop I do and the call works

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Keft, Dansker? kan godt forsto kvor du kommer fra haha, boet I Danmark 15 aar siden, using English Keyboard and not using translation atm, but still remember enough to get a message across hahahaha lived in Koebenhavn for four years.

Only just noticed your username as I was on mobile earlier.

Again, thanks, still trying to get my head around publishing for XBOX [yet t buy one, holding out for the diskless models] as the UWP share feature gets rejected for XBOX publishing, though XAML passes… already got several apps on the UWP - or whatever they have named it now [given up keeping track] - store.

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Thanks @MrValentine sadly I am not from Denmark I had to come up with a gmail address and lived on Denmark Road at the time lol. Just a quick question for you I have posted a question about new Action<Game1, ActivationArgs>(, passIn) which I know has had a lot of work done could you point me at the right person to get an example?

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Haha, my mistake then, just name and country name kind of matched up so well lol

Will take a look but that’s still new to me…

EDIT

Took a look but umm, guess you fixed it?