How to Display Suggestions in ‘On-Screen Keyboard’ for a Textbox in Windows Phone App
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when you enter a text, you will see the list of suggestions for the text
you are typing in the top of the on-screen keyboard.
Similarly, we can display the suggestions for a textbox in the on-screen keyboard in our Windows Phone App, too, with the help of Input Scope (Chat or Text InputScopeName).
Just set the InputScope of the textbox to “Text” like this:
<TextBox Name="textBox1" Text=""> <TextBox.InputScope> <InputScope > <InputScopeName NameValue="Text"/> </InputScope> </TextBox.InputScope> </TextBox>
If you want to try this in codebehind , you can use the below C# code instead
InputScope inputScope = new InputScope(); InputScopeName inputName = new InputScopeName(); inputName.NameValue = InputScopeNameValue.Text; inputScope.Names.Add(inputName); textBox1.InputScope = inputScope;
Run the WP7 Application and start enter few characters in the textbox , you should see the suggestions now
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