Disable auto-hiding on physical keypress

[rubisco57]

Hi there.
I came across this tool searching for a way to prevent the touch screen keyboard from disappearing.
One of the benefits of the good old OSK was its ability to remain on screen even in case a physical keyboard was used as an input method (especially when using multilingual input).
How could the new touch screen keyboard be tweaked to remain visible unless the shortcut CTRL+WIN+O is pressed a second time to hide it?

[Lulech23]

Converting this to a discussion thread since it is not an issue with ReplaceOSK.

How could the new touch screen keyboard be tweaked to remain visible unless the shortcut CTRL+WIN+O is pressed a second time to hide it?

Short answer: it couldn't. The Windows API provides VERY little access to the new OSK. There are Windows settings that will allow you to use the touch keyboard with a physical keyboard attached, but I believe even with those settings enabled, the touch keyboard will close upon physical input.

Even with that being said, I'd struggle to call the old OSK "good" ;)