Windows 8 Desktop App: Open tabtip.exe to secondary keyboard (for numeric textbox)

Question

We\'re working on a desktop WPF app that runs on Windows 7 tablets and are adding some Surface Pro units with windows 8 to the mix.

We noticed immed

Answer 1

in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7 (Windows 8) change the REG_DWORD KeyboardLayoutPreference value of 0 is the regular layout value of 1 is the split keyboard with the numberpad in the middle

the REG_DWORD LastUsedModalityWasHandwriting also has to be 0 or if 1, when tabtip is started again it will open with the pen handwriting area.