How do I prevent my window from being docked by virtual keyboard?

Question

When I tap into a textbox in my application, the Microsoft on-screen keyboard appears and shrinks my application window so that my app only occupies 60% of the screen, and the on-screen keyboard occupies the remaining screen space.

How could I intercept this behaviour?

So far I have not found a way to stop the on-screen keyboard from doing it. I wish it would simply show up but not resize my app window.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Ok, I found a way to prevent the on-screen keyboard from doing that:

The following solution surely works on Windows 11, and on some versions of Windows 10, it works, too. On some versions of Windows 10, this gear icon or this keyboard size / location option is not offered.

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Click the gear, then icon which shows the on-screen keyboard floating on the screen instead of the icon which shows the on-screen keyboard docked on the bottom.

Or (in a newer version of Windows 11) click the icon in the top right corner of the keyboard: