Onscreen Keyboard
I can think of many .NET Micro Framework applications that require text input. Jan Kucera has made a control for this using the up/down and left/right buttons to write text. You can find this control on his .NET Micro Framework Examples page.
With the Touchscreen support of MF 3.0 I tought it would be nice to have something like an on screen keyboard like you find on modern cellular phones. I made a simple KeyboardWindow class. When you create a new KeyBoardWindow an keyboard is displayed on the screen with a flickering cursor. Simply tap on the buttons to add a extra char. Shift is supported.
I made a Visual Studio 2008 Solution that encapsulates and demonstrates the class.
You can download it here: MF_OnScreenKeyBoardDemo.zip
I hope it can be usefull for someone!
Can I use your code in commercial app?
Very nice
I just had to add 2 code lines for it to work in my emulator (I don’t have any hardware yet – but it is on its way).
The code lines are
using Microsoft.SPOT.Touch;
and
Touch.Initialize(mainProgram);
in the Main() method.
Keep up the good and productive work.
Peter F. Jørgensen
Hi Peter,
Thanks for mentioning. Strange that the code ran on my emulator as Touch.Initialize is realy mandetory. I added it to the project.