Keyboard input disabled in full screen mode

03-13-2008 9:44 AM |

When my application is in full screen mode the keyboard is disabled.  We want to create a app that can run in the browser or go full screen for a better user experience but we can do this if the keyboard is disabled!  I see from your documentation that keyboard input is disabled for security reasons, but it makes silverlight useless for our needs.  Any chance  keyboard input can be enabled in 2.0 beta 2?  Maybe ask the user to confirm it is okay ah-la Window Vista?

Thanks

Chris

Re: Keyboard input disabled in full screen mode

03-13-2008 1:03 PM |

 I second this.  If there could be an opt in model, similar to the way the IsolatedStorage size increase works, that would be good enough.

Re: Keyboard input disabled in full screen mode

03-14-2008 5:24 AM |

 I agree, my company is developing a web front end to there systems.  This will be deployed gloablly to as many as 20,000 users.  Having a "full screen" option would be a great selling point for us.  Silverlight team, allow the user to "opt-in" to keyboard input!

Re: Re: Keyboard input disabled in full screen mode

03-21-2008 12:21 AM |

Thanks for all the feedback on this - this is definitely one of those features that would be great to see in the product, but requires careful thought before putting it in due to the security risk.

Is there a reason that IE in full screen mode won't fulfill your requirements? If the application must be cross-browser, why doesn't a maximized borwser work for you?

Also, what keys would you want enabled, and why?

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