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Author Topic: Auto-show on-screen-keyboard for touchscreen application?  (Read 6974 times)

gjehle

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Auto-show on-screen-keyboard for touchscreen application?
« on: October 23, 2007, 02:33 AM »
Hey fellow DCers,

I was wondering if there is any on-screen-keyboard solution that automatically pops up the moment an edit control gets focus.
Any recommendations?


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Re: Auto-show on-screen-keyboard for touchscreen application?
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2007, 04:14 AM »
I was wondering if there is any on-screen-keyboard solution that automatically pops up the moment an edit control gets focus.
Any recommendations?

This probably won't help, but KeePass has an optional extra screen keyboard - here's part of the readme file:


The on-screen keyboard for KeePass is based on Randy More's
on-screen keyboard implementation for pen computing and touchscreens.
You can find his original sources and article here:
http://www.codeproje...onscreenkeyboard.asp


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Re: Auto-show on-screen-keyboard for touchscreen application?
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2007, 04:35 AM »
the main thing here is, that if i focus a control that needs keyboard input (textbox, etc) the on-screen-keyboard should pop up automatically.
i've found a couple of virtual keyboards already, but none have this feature

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Re: Auto-show on-screen-keyboard for touchscreen application?
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2007, 07:14 AM »
thats a nice idea.. wouldn't this be a good coding snack -- a program that detects when you are in an editbox or other edit control and launches a configured application when you are?

post it in the coding snacks request section, this seems like something right up skrommel (or some other ahk coder) alley.

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Re: Auto-show on-screen-keyboard for touchscreen application?
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2007, 07:30 AM »
thats a nice idea.. wouldn't this be a good coding snack -- a program that detects when you are in an editbox or other edit control and launches a configured application when you are?

post it in the coding snacks request section, this seems like something right up skrommel (or some other ahk coder) alley.

good idea!
doing that right now

coding snack idea: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=10520.0
« Last Edit: October 23, 2007, 07:45 AM by gjehle »