Hi,
is it possible to remove the keyboard from showing on the tulip player when connected to a touch screen monitor/Tablet?
We have multiple tablets/touch screens that are connected to a keyboard so I don’t want a keyboard to show up when a text field is selected on the screen as it takes up a large portion of the screen.
I have disabled touch keyboard on the tablets and it doesn’t show up on the screen when using word/notepad/browsers etc.. but does when I use the tulip player?
any ideas?
thanks
I ran into the same behavior on a Systec terminal with physical keyboard. For some reason the Tulip app brings up the software keyboard.
@knowlec, Did you find a solution to this?
I would almost call it a bug.
I find Tulip should respect the environment setting.
I have the same problem when I use the surface as the touch screen. Sometimes we will get two keyboard one is from tulip one is from windows itself.
Hi
Just an update on this.
I ended up disabling startup of the windows service “Touch keyboard and handwriting panel service”. That appeared to have the desired effect and stopped the on screen keyboard completely and I now do not get it when activating Tulip app text fields.
Now it behaves! 
Hope this can be an option for others as well.
Rgds
Asger
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I encountered this same issue, but didn’t find that same service mentioned by @Asharp-J on my PC.
I found that you can instead directly edit the behavior of the Tulip Player. First, the touch keyboard must be fully disabled in windows System Settings.
Then, I ran opened a powershell prompt and ran the following command:
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('TULIP_PLAYER_DISABLE_TOUCH_KEYBOARD_FORCE_INVOKE', 'true', [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)
After then restarting the Tulip Player, the touchscreen keyboard no longer appeared.
–Felix
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