I am trying to force the keyboard language to be English only irrespective of the culture of the app running on windows phone 7.5. I tried to hide that language button of the keyboard with various input scope but no input scope provides that facility.
How can I force the keyboard to be in English language only irrespective of the culture of the application?
Keyboard language is a global preference. On Windows Phone 7 and 8, third-party apps have no impact whatsoever on global preferences. So there's no way to do what you're asking.
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How do I set only keyboard layout/language in Windows 10?
I wanna be able to change only the keyboard language. But it does also end up changing the Apps & Website.
I tried this.
Set-WinUserLanguageList da-DK,en-US -Force
Set-Culture da-DK # Region?
Set-WinSystemLocale -SystemLocale da-DK
Set-WinUILanguageOverride -Language en-US # Changed language in windows
Set-WinHomeLocation -GeoId 61
# https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/table-of-geographical-locations
But the Apps and Websites is changed to da-DK too.
It seems to follow the priority of the WinUserLanguageList. But that is also the only direct way of setting the keyboard language I have found.
So is there a command to only set the keyboard language?
Or a command to only set the Apps and Websites language?
If you add another Language in the Time and Language settings, you can press the Windows Key + Space Bar to quickly change your keyboard layout and only the keyboard layout.
This is how the menu looks in German on Windows 11 but Windows 10 should be similar. Just press the colored button to add your language, wait for it to install but don't switch to it / switch back to your usual main language after and then Windows + Space should work.
Windows 11 Time and Language Menu
This should also add a keyboard layout switcher indicator to your taskbar.
First of all, I am NOT asking about how to change the IME of my own application.
I would like to create a IME toggle program for my own use, like that of Mac OS. Windows 8 got better but Windows 7 sucks at here. Alt+Shift to cycling through more than 2 IMEs are painful. (I use three.) I can assign a shortcut for each language but the keyboard combination sucks and more importantly, there is a bug that the shortcut keeps disappearing.
To create such a program, I need to
1)know the current IME mode (global)
2)set a specific IME mode (globally)
I looked up Windows' IME API, but I could not find any. Is there any way? If there is none, please tell me so. I will also accept that as an answer. If there is any way, just hint me the names of the API, I will search for the details.
Thank you.
I found out the answer myself.
"GetKeyboardLayout"
PostMessage WM_INPUTLANGCHANGEREQUEST
The ImmSimulateHotKey function can toggle IME on windows 7 ,but I find the ImmIsIME function is invalidation on win 7。
Is it possible to restrict language of virtual keyboard, or SIP, to a English only? I'm developing a multilingual game with Scoreloop and want to allow users to enter their nicknames in latin only.
I don't think it is possible, but if it were you shouldn't.
Leave the keyboard language selection to the user. It would be very confusing for the user to suddenly have a different SIP.
Just validate the string that is entered.
EDIT
You are not looking for an input language but for a character restriction so another option is to design your own SIP with the characters you want to allow
I just wonder if we could take advantage of multiple language support in windows phone 7, 7.5 in any mean to enhance user's experience. For example says that how I can detect what language user use on the phone (this appear in start up setting) to auto change my app language. Or perhaps, what is a best way to provide user with multiple language support?
You can do this with Resource Files
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/ff637520(v=vs.105).aspx
There is some value in allowing a user to choose the language themselves, in particular if you want to support a language not supported by the phone, ie Chinese on 7.0
If you go into settings > keyboard, and then add another language it will give you options when the keyboard comes up so that useless autocorrect is no longer useless when typing in another language.
I had the problem of everything I wrote in spanish being autocorrected.. This is especially annoying when it splits your word into 2 as you are forced to retype it.
When adding a second language, you will have an extra button at the bottom of the keyboard so you can switch between lanugages. This changes the dictionaries also.. I believe you can have as many as you like.
In Windows Mobile 5 one of the following methods works to set an input to numbers only:
// Managed
InputModeEditor.SetInputMode(textBox, InputMode.Numeric);
// Native Wrapper
InputModeSupport.SHSetImeMode(textBox.Handle, InputModeSupport.SHIME_MODE.SHIME_MODE_NUMBERS);
In Windows Mobile 6, neither works.
How do you set the IME to "Numbers Only" in WM 6.0 / .NET CF 3.5?
To set IME mode you can use the two methods above, switching based on platform using the SystemSettings class to inform it. If you want to use the SIP instead, you can find the GUID of the WYSIWYG keyboard, or "guess" by enumerating all SIPs and choosing one with "Numeric" in its name. Ultimately though, there is no way to guarantee the numbers only keyboard in code.