Touch Screen Keyboard

[x32]

I made this on screen keyboard to replace the one that comes with windows tablets. This keyboard keeps the standard layout while taking less vertical space. I have been sitting on this for quite a while trying to figure out the best way to allow customizations. Not sure that what I've come up with is the best way .

The number keys, fkeys, arrow keys. and others have been layered with the number pad to save space. The four symbols to the left of the number pad navigates between the tabs. Other than that it works exactly like any other keyboard. I have even managed to type directly on my tablet, as apposed to hunt and peck, although it's not easy.

Much of the keyboard is customizable. Text color, button images, background color and background pictures can all be customized by the user. In addition, there are eight user programmable buttons. This script uses the font Wingdings 3, which I'm not sure comes with Windows anymore. If some keys don't make sense, i.e. shows letters instead of symbols, you may need to install it.

There are too many scripts to try to post the code so I have zipped everything needed.


I have used this keyboard on a daily basis for almost a year. However, there were so many changes made while adding the options panel that there are bound to be some bugs. Please let me know if you find any.

[burque505]

Hi, X32, it's very nice. I'm testing it on the desktop, so I had to add 'Gui -dpiscale' at about line 130 since my scaling is at 125%.
I have a problem with the four buttons for #, Up-Arrow, F, and ?. They work, but they're a 2X2 grid instead of 1X4.
Maybe it'll work on a tablet for me, I'll post if it does.

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Thanks for sharing, it looks like that was a lot of work.
Regards,
burque505

[x32]

Hmm, strange behavior, I wonder if it's because of the dpi scaling?

If I remember correctly, the four symbols are just text over the tab buttons which each are labeled with a period. It's been a year since I wrote this but I think that's what I did. Any text, when the buttons are on the side of the tabs, rotates 90 degrees and makes the tabs too large to fit on the keyboard.

It looks as though the tab buttons were too large to fit in a row so they formed two rows instead. Reducing the font size for the tabs might fix it.

It also appears that the background image didn't load for the keyboard. The background color had been changed so hopefully it's something you did and not a bug.

[burque505]

Hi x32, thanks for getting back on this. I changed all the font sizes in the Tabs section to s12, but I still get a 2x2 grid. I can't check with 'Gui -dpiscale' off, because that makes about a third of the keyboard fail to display.
EDIT: I think, for me anyway (Win7 64-bit desktop, 1.1.28.02), the problem is in the tab3 control. I changed it to tab2 and its useable on the desktop, but won't be on a tablet.
Still has text for tab 1 and tab 2 on tab 1, text for tab 3 and tab 4 on tab 2, tabs 3 and 4 are blank and off to the right.
Regards,
burque505

[x32]

Any suggestions on a better way to do the tabs?

[AHKStudent]

I like it, will use it when I need the onscreen keyboard Thank You

[hd0202]

@burque505 I had similar problems with win 8.1 on desktop. I added

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gui, -dpiscale

and changed the height in

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Gui, Add, Tab3, x935 y0 w283 h250 BackgroundTrans Left Buttons -Wrap, .|.|.|.
; to
Gui, Add, Tab3, x935 y0 w283 h300 BackgroundTrans Left Buttons -Wrap, .|.|.|.

Hubert