(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is under heavy development and the API is changing! SDL2 is the current stable version!)

SDL_HINT_ENABLE_SCREEN_KEYBOARD

A variable that controls whether the on-screen keyboard should be shown when text input is active.

Header File

Defined in <SDL3/SDL_hints.h>

Syntax

#define SDL_HINT_ENABLE_SCREEN_KEYBOARD "SDL_ENABLE_SCREEN_KEYBOARD"

Remarks

The variable can be set to the following values:

• "auto": The on-screen keyboard will be shown if there is no physical keyboard attached. (default)
• "0": Do not show the on-screen keyboard.
• "1": Show the on-screen keyboard, if available.

This hint must be set before SDL_StartTextInput() is called

Version

This hint is available since SDL 3.0.0.

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIMacro, CategoryHints