No virtual keyboard on stellarium with my Microsoft surface Go

[rguinamard]

Dear all
I use stellarium software with my microsoft surface go2.
No problem when I use the physical keyboard.
But I want also want to use stellarium without physical keyboard, the "tablet mode" of my surface go.
When I unplug the physical keyboard, the virtual keyboard never appears on Stellarium unlike the classical softwares (word, excel etc).
So I can't type anything... For example I can't type an object number/name to search it.
Does anyone knows how to solve this ?
Regards
Raphaël

[alex-w]

Sorry, but developers have no Surface Go - adding support virtual keyboards can be added by community (similar to compiling for Windows ARM-devices previously)

[10110111]

I think no one has ever tested Stellarium in this mode. I do have a laptop with a touch screen and Windows 11 on it, but the keyboard is an integral part of it, so I wonder how one could reproduce this with a usual PC.

[10110111]

Oh, actually I can reproduce the issue. My laptop can be converted to a tablet-like device by rotating the screen 360° from the closed state, in which case its keyboard and touchpad are automatically disabled. In this state tapping input fields in stock Windows apps indeed brings up a screen keyboard, while in Stellarium it doesn't.

@alex-w Do you still have this patch around, to learn from it?

[10110111]

Can we convert this discussion thread into an issue?

[alex-w]

@alex-w Do you still have this patch around, to learn from it?

Sorry, but apparently I don't have it anymore (the patch was proposed about 10 years ago) - at least I can't find it.

[alex-w]

Can we convert this discussion thread into an issue?

I fear answer is no, but... just try it.

[rguinamard]

Thanks all for your replies.
Thanks 10110111 to have reproduced this.
I can't convert this discussion into an issue.
I'm going to open this same discussion in the issue part of the forum ..

[rguinamard]

Moved to the Issue part of this forum