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My wife gets bit by bit (albeit at a slower pace than me) more enthousiastic about HStouch. One of her suggestions is to include a sort of website interface where she could look for phonenumbers/newspapers. To get this realised I'm looking for two kind of things:
1. To be able to send information we would need some kind of keyboard function (don't like to have a physical keyboard lying around). Is there an easy application to have this applied for only one hstouch screen or is this running in windows and will be applied to all screens?
2. Is there some kind of apps-screen where she could find the most used applications needed (like train/phonenumbers/etc)?

1. OSK.EXE, On Screen Keyboard, from MS.

Thanks!!!!
Never knew this would be that simple.

I knew of the existence of OSK.exe but I wanted it to only show up for certain screens (my 'Internet Apps' screen). I don't like it to hover around all the screens the whole time.

There are some talks that there will be some kind of HStouch OSK. See link below:


http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.ph ... hlight=osk

Why not make a button that runs OSK.EXE on the pages you might need the keyboard?
The keyboard will only be visible when needed.

It can even be a invisible button....

i remember this commerical version who has nice features and can be skinned in style of your interface and to many options to mention.
http://www.comfort-software.com/on-screen-keyboard.html

a free one with some handy options like typing without getting your finger of the screen.
http://www.iliumsoft.com/site/fp/inscribe.php

and then there is stroke it, a program where you can make guestures to control things.
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/shots.shtml

How can I make OSK.exe visible when I switch to a certain screen? Should I build a script (never done) or can I use existing HStouch functionality?
Or, as suggested, how can I link OSK.exe to a button?

Make a button => action when released =>add =>action type: misc: Launch aplication => C:\windows\system32\osk.exe
Now when you press and release button the keyboard will come up. Instead of making a button you can also add the above action to the button that switches to your internet page in HS touch.

Good luck.

Thanks, that works great.
I just discovered a new feature of google. Next to the search field now a keyboard function is added! Should have been only a few days earlier...