The on screen keyboard on Windows 8+ should not obscure the input field.

ui/base/win/osk_display_manager.cc

+// Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#include "ui/base/win/osk_display_manager.h"
+
+#include <windows.h>
+#include <shellapi.h>
+#include <shlobj.h>
+#include <shobjidl.h>  // Must be before propkey.
+
+#include "base/bind.h"
+#include "base/lazy_instance.h"
+#include "base/logging.h"
+#include "base/message_loop/message_loop.h"
+#include "base/strings/string_util.h"
+#include "base/win/registry.h"
+#include "base/win/scoped_co_mem.h"
+#include "base/win/win_util.h"
+#include "base/win/windows_version.h"
+#include "ui/base/win/osk_display_observer.h"
+#include "ui/display/win/dpi.h"
+#include "ui/gfx/geometry/dip_util.h"
+
+namespace ui {
+
+static const int kCheckOSKDelayMs = 1000;
+static const wchar_t kOSKClassName[] = L"IPTip_Main_Window";
+
+const wchar_t kWindows8OSKRegPath[] =
+    L"Software\\Classes\\CLSID\\{054AAE20-4BEA-4347-8A35-64A533254A9D}"
+    L"\\LocalServer32";
+
+// This class provides functionality to detect when the on screen keyboard
+// is displayed and move the main window up if it is obscured by the keyboard.
+class OnScreenKeyboardDetector {
+ public:
+  OnScreenKeyboardDetector();
+  ~OnScreenKeyboardDetector();
+
+  // Schedules a delayed task which detects if the on screen keyboard was
+  // displayed.
+  void DetectKeyboard(HWND main_window);
+
+  // Dismisses the on screen keyboard.
+  bool DismissKeyboard();
+
+  // Add/Remove keyboard observers.
+  // Please note that this class does not track the |observer| destruction. It
+  // is upto the classes which set up these observers to remove them when they
+  // are destroyed.
+  void AddObserver(OnScreenKeyboardObserver* observer);
+  void RemoveObserver(OnScreenKeyboardObserver* observer);
+
+ private:
+  // Executes as a task and detects if the on screen keyboard is displayed.
+  // The |check_for_activation| parameter controls whether the function detects
+  // whether the keyboard wad displayed or hidden.
+  // Once the OSK is detected, this task runs periodically for the duration for
+  // which the OSK is visible.
+  void CheckOSKState(bool check_for_activation);
+
+  // Notifies observers that the keyboard was displayed.
+  // A recurring task CheckOSKState() is started to detect when the OSK
+  // disappears.
+  void HandleKeyboardVisible();
+
+  // Notifies observers that the keyboard was hidden.
+  // The observer list is cleared out after this notification.
+  void HandleKeyboardHidden();
+
+  // Removes all observers from the list.
+  void ClearObservers();
+
+  // The main window which displays the on screen keyboard.
+  HWND main_window_ = nullptr;
+
+  // Tracks if the keyboard was displayed.
+  bool osk_visible_notification_received_ = false;
+
+  // The keyboard dimensions in DIPs.
+  gfx::Rect osk_rect_dip_;
+
+  base::ObserverList<OnScreenKeyboardObserver, false> observers_;
+
+  // Should be the last member in the class. Helps ensure that tasks spawned
+  // by this class instance are canceled when it is destroyed.
+  base::WeakPtrFactory<OnScreenKeyboardDetector> keyboard_detector_factory_;
+
+  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(OnScreenKeyboardDetector);
+};
+
+// OnScreenKeyboardDetector member definitions.
+OnScreenKeyboardDetector::OnScreenKeyboardDetector()
+    : keyboard_detector_factory_(this) {}
+
+OnScreenKeyboardDetector::~OnScreenKeyboardDetector() {}
+
+void OnScreenKeyboardDetector::DetectKeyboard(HWND main_window) {
+  main_window_ = main_window;
+  base::MessageLoop::current()->PostDelayedTask(

[sky, 2016/05/19 22:25:08]

Please document why we need to delay here.

[ananta, 2016/05/19 23:15:40]

Done.

+      FROM_HERE, base::Bind(&OnScreenKeyboardDetector::CheckOSKState,
+                            keyboard_detector_factory_.GetWeakPtr(), true),
+      base::TimeDelta::FromMilliseconds(kCheckOSKDelayMs));
+}
+
+bool OnScreenKeyboardDetector::DismissKeyboard() {
+  // We dismiss the virtual keyboard by generating the ESC keystroke
+  // programmatically.
+  HWND osk = ::FindWindow(kOSKClassName, nullptr);
+  if (::IsWindow(osk) && ::IsWindowEnabled(osk)) {
+    HandleKeyboardHidden();
+    PostMessage(osk, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_CLOSE, 0);
+    return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+void OnScreenKeyboardDetector::AddObserver(OnScreenKeyboardObserver* observer) {
+  observers_.AddObserver(observer);
+}
+
+void OnScreenKeyboardDetector::RemoveObserver(
+    OnScreenKeyboardObserver* observer) {
+  observers_.RemoveObserver(observer);
+}
+
+void OnScreenKeyboardDetector::CheckOSKState(bool check_for_activation) {
+  HWND osk = ::FindWindow(kOSKClassName, nullptr);
+  if (!::IsWindow(osk))
+    return;
+
+  RECT osk_rect = {};
+  ::GetWindowRect(osk, &osk_rect);
+
+  osk_rect_dip_ =
+      gfx::ConvertRectToDIP(display::win::GetDPIScale(), gfx::Rect(osk_rect));

[sky, 2016/05/19 22:25:08]

Use the functions in ScreenWin that take the hwnd into account. But it looks
like you need pixels in the one place using this, so don't convert, keep it
pixels and clearly indicate in the observer it's pixels.

[ananta, 2016/05/19 23:15:40]

Done.

+
+  if (check_for_activation) {
+    if (::IsWindowVisible(osk) && ::IsWindowEnabled(osk)) {
+      if (!osk_visible_notification_received_)
+        HandleKeyboardVisible();
+    } else {
+      DVLOG(1) << "OSK did not come up in 1 second. Something wrong.";
+    }
+  } else {
+    // Three cases here.
+    // 1. OSK was hidden because the user dismissed it.
+    // 2. We are no longer in the foreground.
+    // 3. The OSK is still visible.
+    // In the first case we just have to notify the observers that the OSK was
+    // hidden.
+    // In the second case we need to dismiss the OSK which internally will
+    // notify the observers about the OSK being hidden.
+    if (!::IsWindowEnabled(osk)) {
+      if (osk_visible_notification_received_) {
+        if (main_window_ == ::GetForegroundWindow()) {
+          DVLOG(1) << "OSK window hidden while we are in the foreground.";
+          HandleKeyboardHidden();
+        }
+      }
+    } else if (main_window_ != ::GetForegroundWindow()) {
+      if (osk_visible_notification_received_) {
+        DVLOG(1) << "We are no longer in the foreground. Dismising OSK.";
+        DismissKeyboard();
+      }
+    } else {
+      base::MessageLoop::current()->PostDelayedTask(
+          FROM_HERE, base::Bind(&OnScreenKeyboardDetector::CheckOSKState,
+                                keyboard_detector_factory_.GetWeakPtr(), false),
+          base::TimeDelta::FromMilliseconds(kCheckOSKDelayMs));
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+void OnScreenKeyboardDetector::HandleKeyboardVisible() {
+  DCHECK(!osk_visible_notification_received_);
+  osk_visible_notification_received_ = true;
+
+  FOR_EACH_OBSERVER(OnScreenKeyboardObserver, observers_,
+                    OnKeyboardVisible(osk_rect_dip_));
+
+  // Now that the keyboard is visible, run the task to detect if it was hidden.
+  base::MessageLoop::current()->PostDelayedTask(
+      FROM_HERE, base::Bind(&OnScreenKeyboardDetector::CheckOSKState,
+                            keyboard_detector_factory_.GetWeakPtr(), false),
+      base::TimeDelta::FromMilliseconds(kCheckOSKDelayMs));
+}
+
+void OnScreenKeyboardDetector::HandleKeyboardHidden() {
+  osk_visible_notification_received_ = false;
+  FOR_EACH_OBSERVER(OnScreenKeyboardObserver, observers_,
+                    OnKeyboardHidden(osk_rect_dip_));
+  ClearObservers();
+}
+
+void OnScreenKeyboardDetector::ClearObservers() {
+  base::ObserverListBase<OnScreenKeyboardObserver>::Iterator iter(&observers_);
+  for (OnScreenKeyboardObserver* observer = iter.GetNext(); observer;
+       observer = iter.GetNext()) {
+    RemoveObserver(observer);
+  }
+}
+
+// OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager member definitions.
+OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager::OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager() {}
+
+OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager::~OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager() {}
+
+OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager* OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager::GetInstance() {
+  return base::Singleton<
+      OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager,
+      base::LeakySingletonTraits<OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager>>::get();
+}
+
+bool OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager::DisplayVirtualKeyboard(
+    OnScreenKeyboardObserver* observer) {
+  if (base::win::GetVersion() < base::win::VERSION_WIN8)
+    return false;
+
+  if (base::win::IsKeyboardPresentOnSlate(nullptr))
+    return false;
+
+  if (osk_path_.empty()) {
+    // We need to launch TabTip.exe from the location specified under the
+    // LocalServer32 key for the {{054AAE20-4BEA-4347-8A35-64A533254A9D}}
+    // CLSID.
+    // TabTip.exe is typically found at
+    // c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\ink on English Windows.
+    // We don't want to launch TabTip.exe from
+    // c:\program files (x86)\common files\microsoft shared\ink. This path is
+    // normally found on 64 bit Windows.
+    base::win::RegKey key(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, kWindows8OSKRegPath,
+                          KEY_READ | KEY_WOW64_64KEY);
+    DWORD osk_path_length = 1024;
+    if (key.ReadValue(NULL, base::WriteInto(&osk_path_, osk_path_length),
+                      &osk_path_length, NULL) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
+      DLOG(WARNING) << "Failed to read on screen keyboard path from registry";
+      return false;

[sky, 2016/05/19 22:25:08]

If we return any where in here should we cache the value so we don't keep
trying?

[ananta, 2016/05/19 23:15:40]

We could. However this is old code and mostly safe. We can leave this as is.

+    }
+
+    osk_path_.resize(base::string16::traits_type::length(osk_path_.c_str()));
+
+    osk_path_ = base::ToLowerASCII(osk_path_);
+
+    size_t common_program_files_offset =
+        osk_path_.find(L"%commonprogramfiles%");
+    // Typically the path to TabTip.exe read from the registry will start with
+    // %CommonProgramFiles% which needs to be replaced with the corrsponding
+    // expanded string.
+    // If the path does not begin with %CommonProgramFiles% we use it as is.
+    if (common_program_files_offset != base::string16::npos) {
+      // Preserve the beginning quote in the path.
+      osk_path_.erase(common_program_files_offset,
+                      wcslen(L"%commonprogramfiles%"));
+      // The path read from the registry contains the %CommonProgramFiles%
+      // environment variable prefix. On 64 bit Windows the SHGetKnownFolderPath
+      // function returns the common program files path with the X86 suffix for
+      // the FOLDERID_ProgramFilesCommon value.
+      // To get the correct path to TabTip.exe we first read the environment
+      // variable CommonProgramW6432 which points to the desired common
+      // files path. Failing that we fallback to the SHGetKnownFolderPath API.
+
+      // We then replace the %CommonProgramFiles% value with the actual common
+      // files path found in the process.
+      base::string16 common_program_files_path;
+      DWORD buffer_size =
+          GetEnvironmentVariable(L"CommonProgramW6432", nullptr, 0);
+      if (buffer_size) {
+        GetEnvironmentVariable(
+            L"CommonProgramW6432",
+            base::WriteInto(&common_program_files_path, buffer_size),
+            buffer_size);
+        DCHECK(!common_program_files_path.empty());
+      } else {
+        base::win::ScopedCoMem<wchar_t> common_program_files;
+        if (FAILED(SHGetKnownFolderPath(FOLDERID_ProgramFilesCommon, 0, nullptr,
+                                        &common_program_files))) {
+          return false;
+        }
+        common_program_files_path = common_program_files;
+      }
+
+      osk_path_.insert(common_program_files_offset, common_program_files_path);
+    }
+  }
+
+  HINSTANCE ret = ::ShellExecuteW(nullptr, L"", osk_path_.c_str(), nullptr,
+                                  nullptr, SW_SHOW);
+
+  bool success = reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(ret) > 32;
+  if (success) {
+    // If multiple calls to DisplayVirtualKeyboard occur one after the other,
+    // the last observer would be the one to get notifications.
+    keyboard_detector_.reset(new OnScreenKeyboardDetector);
+    if (observer)
+      keyboard_detector_->AddObserver(observer);
+    keyboard_detector_->DetectKeyboard(::GetForegroundWindow());
+  }
+  return success;
+}
+
+bool OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager::DismissVirtualKeyboard() {
+  if (base::win::GetVersion() < base::win::VERSION_WIN8)
+    return false;
+
+  bool ret = false;
+  if (keyboard_detector_.get())
+    ret = keyboard_detector_->DismissKeyboard();
+  return ret;
+}
+
+bool DisplayVirtualKeyboard() {
+  DCHECK(OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager::GetInstance());
+  return OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager::GetInstance()->DisplayVirtualKeyboard(
+      nullptr);  // !keyboard_observer.
+}
+
+bool DismissVirtualKeyboard() {
+  DCHECK(OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager::GetInstance());
+  return OnScreenKeyboardDisplayManager::GetInstance()
+      ->DismissVirtualKeyboard();
+}
+
+}  // namespace ui