Do you have a on-screen keyboard ?

[10_GOTO_10]

Hi,

It seems to me that ReactOS don't have some virtual keyboard (on-screen keyboard osk.exe). I have made this program, and with little changes it works on ReactOS (it doesn't work essentially because the flag WS_EX_NOACTIVATE don't work). Obviously I am the author and owner of the code. If you think it can be useful for ReactOS, I can give it to the project. In this case, tell me how to do to commit the files.

After, it would be interesting to can choose "no keyboard" when installing OS. For now when I choose english language, I have only english keyboard in the list, and after first reboot I have no keyboard and no mouse...

Regards

[DOSGuy]

That's a great idea. I don't need it for accessibility reasons, but I've used the on-screen keyboard in Windows when keyboards have died or failed to be recognized at boot time. Good initiative!

[EmuandCo]

File it as a Bug please or show it our dev mailing list. The first few patches are reviewed and committed by our devs. Later after a few you get your own access.

[Pesho]

The On-Screen keyboard is absolutely necessary for tablet PC's. WinXP tablet edition and anything above Vista has the Tablet Input Panel (TIP) installed by default.

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Disregarding the handwriting recognition, the most important feature of this on-screen keyboard (as opposed to the default one) is the way it sticks to the taskbar so that it's always available for all applications. I have not tested how ReactOS works with the digitizer driver but there is a good chance they will work, since most tabletPC digitizers use a serial connection.

[elhoir]

is there any place where one can download your app?

[10_GOTO_10]

Here is a zip file:

http://denis.beru.free.fr/Download/osk.zip

Regards

[jimtabor]

ReactOS needs to support keyboard attach input thread so the keyboard program will input into the target thread and display in the target application. ATM this is broken.

[jimtabor]

Open source,,,
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/onscreenkeyboard.aspx

[10_GOTO_10]

by jimtabor » 10 Jan 2012 19:54

Open source,,,
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/onscreenkeyboard.aspx

It uses MFC and cpp. I don't think it is ReactOS coding conventions.

[gonzoMD]

I don't know if it's 100% correct, but I tried to make a german translation, maybe EmuandCo can review it.
Here it is: http://www.filefactory.com/file/c15c585/n/de-DE.rc

[EmuandCo]

Maybe when I find some time for it. There's still a newsletter to be reviewed too

[wojo664]

Code: Select all

 PUSHBUTTON      "Verr maj",SCAN_CODE_30,3,60,28,13,BS_ICON

I'm making a Polish translation, and I don't know what is "Verr maj"...
It's in English lang file.

[10_GOTO_10]

"Verr maj" is in french (verrouillage majuscules), "caps lock" in english. But it is not important, because there is an icon on this key.

[Pisarz]

Could someone put here compiled binary? Cause there is no makefile and I'm not really a dev...

[wojo664]

http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6824 PL translation ready