For a kiosk application on a touch screen device we use a web app running inside chromium browser in kiosk mode (--kiosk), which implies full screen. We are now seeking a solution to provide users with a virtual keyboard.
What we have tried:
Chrome-Extensions: There are a lot but all of them seem to fail as soon as an input field is inside an iframe, which makes them unusable for our scenario
Linux virtual keyboards ( We are on Ubuntu 14.04 / Openbox window manager) : Florence, Onboard, matchbox keyboard, tried any I could google ;-): They all fail as soon as the browser is in full screen mode.
Javascript / jQuery Plugins: see above / Chrome Extensions (iframe problem)
So the question is: Is there a way to tell Openbox (or another window manager, switching to another wm could be an option) that the keyboard window should be placed above the full screen browser window? Or any other suggestions are welcome.
The closest solution right now is to run chromium not in kiosk mode but maximized without window decorations (so it looks like fullscreen), then "Onboard " is a good choice, but all the other features from kiosk mode (e.g. disabled context menu etc.) are missing...
Thanks a lot for any ideas on this subject!
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I have a solution in Visual Studio 2017 with multiple Asp.Net startup projects.
Current Behavior
When I start debugging each project starts in a new Chrome window with a single tab.
Desired behavior
When I start debugging all web pages start in the same new Chrome window, each in its own tab.
I had the desired behavior in Brave browser, apparently by default—but for business reasons I now need to switch to debugging primarily in Chrome.
So, I suspect this is a browser setting, but as long as I get the desired behavior I am willing to adjust settings in either the browser, Visual Studio or both.
UPDATE:
To be clear this is not:
How to use the same browser window every time you start a project in Visual Studio?
Nor is it:
Stop Visual Studio from launching a new browser window when starting debug?
I do want a new browser window, apart from any previous debugging and indeed a separate instance from any browser I may have already started on the same machine.
To Launch Multiple Asp.Net Projects In The Same Browser Window
You can go Tools menu => Options => Project and Solutions => Web Projects, then you can find a setting called:
Stop debugger when browser window is closed, close browser when debugging stops
Uncheck it and click OK, then you can start the multiple projects in same Browser Window. Note: This behavior after uncheck that setting may not meet all your needs.It will not open in new Chrome instance but in a already running Chrome instance if it exists.
When set the Chrome as default browser in VS. If you've already have a Chrome browser running, start the solution and it will open several tabs in that existing Chrome instance. And only when you have no Chrome instance running, it will start same new Chrome browser window as you expected. So actually this setting only meet part of your expected behavior I guess.
To Launch Multiple Asp.Net Projects In The Same New Browser Window
It seems only when you have no Chrome instance running, this behavior can be reached. And as far as I know, there's no setting in VS can configure VS to always launch Chrome in a new instance with several tabs when start the solution with multiple startup projects.So maybe you can go Developer Community to share your requirement to the Product Team by Suggest a Feature option. Hope it makes some help:)
To avoid using an open browser you can use Browse with... if you can give any argument to chrome however arbitrary, it will open a new browser window. It provides the chrome instance a new "signature" and VS will see the browsers as separate applications.
Currently I am writing iOS tests using Python Appium and would like to completely hide the software keyboard which pops up whenever you have to type something. I am already aware of driver.hide_keyboard() function but it's a pain to include it everywhere in tests.
I was going over the Appium Desired Capabilites but couldn't find anything that will disable the software keyboard. Appreciate if anyone can help me here?
To disable soft keyboard in iOS simulator do this:
Simulator Menu > Hardware > Keyboard > Connect Hardware Keyboard (enable it)
Even if you quit and reopen the simulator, the selection will stay. I'm not sure what happens when you factory reset the simulator.
screenshots attached.
I've searched Google for about 1,5h now and i can't find a good answer.
Is it possible to display the Soft Keyboard when debugging using ADL?
If i use the existing properties I still don't see it.
I want to check if my layout looks well when the Soft Keyboard appears, but for some reason I don't see it coming in ADL (Adobe Debug Launcher).
I don't have a tablet to test it on for now so that isn't a solution.
Am i doing something wrong whereby I don't see the soft keyboard or doesn't it exist in ADL?
ADL is just the Flex debugger program. When I use ADL to launch my app on an Android device; there are no issues getting the soft keyboard to show up. When I use ADL to launch an app in an emulator, I have never seen the soft keyboard come up. This is not supported with the emulator included with Flex / Flash Builder.
In my experience the availability of the soft keyboard depends on the context you're running the app in (Debugger vs Device) and has nothing to do w/ ADL.
Does that answer your question?
I have currently found a way to place the currently installation of Internet Explorer into kiosk mode using asp.net and VB
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("iexplore", "-k " & "http://www.google.co.uk")
the "-k" parameter is the command that puts the browser into kiosk mode, however, other browsers such as chrome will only put the new instance of the page into another tab and firefox just opens the browser without loading the window.
I need to know what commands to pass so that chrome and firefox will respond in the same way as IE.
Many thanks
Chrome browser can do KIOSK mode with this command.
chrome.exe --chrome-frame -kiosk "your web page".
The good thing with Chrome is that you can build apps that can use the webkit animation and they look great for a KIOSK type applications.
It sounds like you might be interested in Windows Steady State, it's discontinued and doesn't run on win 7, but if you have XP or vista, it will let you lock down the PC nice and tight. This way you can restrict the use of programs to browsers you want (if you can't lock down chrome and ff) and on a reboot, it will clear any changes to the PC, basically returning you to a clean state status
Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SteadyState
I have some problems running FlexUnit tests in IntelliJ.
Every time I execute test, Internet Explorer (which is not even set as default browser) pops up and blocks unit test, i.e. blocks it as add so I must allow access through that dumb top bar and then another confirmation and then finally test runs. Is there any way to reconfigure it to another browser or to run it some other way so I just hit the Run button on Idea and I can see results right away?
Thank you for help
As you are using Windows have a look at the first comment by Alexander Doroshko in this bug report: http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-49795
Current behavior:
if 'Use system default browser' is selected at Settings | Web Browsers | Default Web Browser then swf/html is started in default OS application (either default browser of standalone Flash player)
if default browser is overridden in IDEA then it is always used both for swf/html.
It would be more convenient if standalone Flash player is used for swfs independently of this setting as soon as it is OS default program for sfws.
I recommend to configure the stand alone flashplayer executable for executing unit tests. As you can also see from the report this has been improved in IDEA 10.