I am evaluating the virtual keyboard for my kiosk application. I need to be able to change the language of the keyboard irrespective of the language of the system. Is this possible?

I see the documentation says to call the overload ChangeLanguage function. I cannot find it. Can you show some sample code.

Also is it a requirement to have the Windows language add-ons downloaded for the language I want to support ? Ideally this is not the case.

Thanks I have downloaded the latest and the ChangeLanguage is available.

I have the Japanese Windows keyboard language installed.

I have this in my code

        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            Keyboard.ChangeLanguage("jp-JP");
        }
 

However the keyboard is still in English language. There is a language cycling button and if I press that I can get to Japanese. Any reason why the above didn't work?

Also I am assuming for me to remove the language switching button I have to create my custom layout, or is there an option?

Also further I have a TextBox in my sample app however the keyboard is not entering any text. However opening up Notepad.exe text is being entered. Is this a limitation of the trial version?

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You could remove the key from default layouts like this:

vk.Mode = KeyboardMode.Extended;
var defaultLayout = vk.Layout;
defaultLayout.Keys.Remove(MindFusion.UI.Wpf.Key.Lang);
vk.TemplateLayout = defaultLayout; 

Hi,

ja-JP works on my end, while the jp-JP you mentioned in first post does not. That should be equivalent to following assignment, so you could try it too:

InputLanguageManager.Current.CurrentInputLanguage = new CultureInfo("ja-JP"); 

If ja-JP isn't working for you either way, while the next-language key does, you could simulate the latter being pressed:

keyboard.SendKey(MindFusion.UI.Wpf.Key.Lang); 

Unfortunately, the language change is asynchronous and you can't check immediately what is the current language after sending the key. You could listen to InputLanguageManager.InputLanguageChanged event instead, and cycle from there until active language is reported as ja-JP.

InputLanguageManager.Current.InputLanguageChanged += OnInputLanguageChanged;

void OnInputLanguageChanged(object sender, InputLanguageEventArgs e)
{
    Debug.WriteLine(e.NewLanguage);
} 

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You don't have to install language packs btw, just control panel -> Languages -> Add Language, and then you can clear all checkboxes to install just the keyboard layout.

Regards,
Slavcho
Mindfusion