Disabling Soft Input Panel in WEC2013

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Hi,
we using VNC to communicate with our device, no Need for an Soft Keyboard or Soft Input Panel to Pop up.
I tried to disable this behaviour in ‘Settings’ but no Chance.

Thanks for helping.

With best regards

Gerhard

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Dear @Gerhard,

Thank you for contacting support. Following registry settings would be used for that.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\SIP]
"TurnOffAutoDeploy"=dword:1

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sip]
"Disabled"=dword:1

Let us know if you have any other questions.

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Hi Raja,

thanks.
I tried to read out the current settings in my app, works, and if the value = 0 I tried to set it to 1, as you told me, but … ‘unauthorized Access …’ exception was thrown.

Any chance, or is there only a chance to change this values with the RegEdit?

With best regards

Gerhard

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Dear @Gerhard,

How did you access those registries on your App?
Registry access example code can be found here : https://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/backlight and https://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/registry-access-using-program

Is that working through RegEdit way?

If possible, please share your code.

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Hi Raja,
I wrote a Little helper class.
You will find a copy attached.
I implemented only the functionallity I needed so far, sorry.
Reading the app Settings works, but I can’t set the values needed to Switch off the Input Panel.
I used the regedit and this works out.

Sorry, want to add a .vb file, but didn#t work out. Get an Dialog ‘Choos file …’ but nothing happens . Maybe you can tell me another way to share this file.

With best regards

Gerhard

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Dear @Gerhard,

If RegEdit way works then you need to find how to set programmatically. I am not vb expert. I suggest you write a simple C console application to test registry access APIs. If it works then you can call from vb application or directly access VB registry APIs. Please don’t forget to do Save the registry after edit otherwise it won’t be persistent across reboot.

Try different browser to share files through share.toradex.com or send mail to support@toradex.com

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Hello Gerhard,

you could also create a .reg file and use regedit.exe to import that registry file.
Copy this file to an usb stick and use autorun to mport the file, save the registry and reboot.

regedit /S "\usb hd\mysettings.reg"

update /fu

update /rc
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Dear @Gerhard,

Did you find the solution for the problem, If you didn’t find yet, could you share the code through share.toradex.com (please don’t forget to post the link in the forum) or support@toradex.com.

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Hi Raja,
.net Framework gives a nice API to work with, so we can use C# or VB or other of the 200+ .net languages …
I use VB because ist as easy to read as your Newsletter in the morning.

Try to add the file here again today, if there is no file, you will get a mail.

With best regards

Gerhard

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Hi Raja, I send the code as mail to the mailaddress you told me, some days ago …

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Dear @Gerhard,

I have searched in our support mail system, I didn’t find your mail. Could you resend to support@toradex.com and also share.toradex.com. Let us try to get the code from any one of the channels.

We have VB.NET registry access demo code here : https://developer.toradex.com/knowledge-base/registry-access-using-program, Did you check that?

Thank you.