How can we disable the default keypad of textbox in silverlight windows phone 7?

i have made my custom ke开发者_高级运维ypad so i want to enter the text with my custom keypad. But the problem is that every time when textbox get focus the default keypad pops up. so how can i fix this or i have to have to opt some patch.

I don't believe this is possible, as the SIP is controlled by the OS, and is shown depending on whether you have a hardware keyboard or not. If you really want to have a custom keypad, you will probably need to design your own data entry controls as well (ie. custom textbox that shows your SIP).

You can't do it the "elegant" way. If you really need this you could build the following: 1. User touches the control (control has focus ... open your custom SIP) 2. immediately switch the focus to a hidden, non textbox control 3. OS SIP will not show if this is done fast enough

Sorry, this is the only way I am aware of :(

A related example: http://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet5650.htm

This is not possible, in this release anyways. I have also run into a problem with using the default keypad. But there are some options to use a keyboard that is designed for different types of input (ex. Search, Text, etc.).

Check out this article. It gives quite a few options in wp7 when it comes to the keypad. I'm sure one of these could be usefull.

All you have to do is set the InputScope = "" in the textbox control to whatever scopes are available(check article ^).

HTH.

try setting the IsReadOnly property of the testBox to true

Its an Interesting task .

I remember , i did the similar task with Windows Mobile 6 / 5 and Pocket PC 2003 where we have the access to the native API's via pInvoke and disabled the SIP Button . like using SHFullScreen

I think this is not supported in Windows Phone 7 since it is purely managed code .