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Comfort

Wed May 14 2008, 12:55PM

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If you are writing kiosk software using HTML, you can control the on-screen keyboard with special JavaScript functions.

You can show, hide and move the keyboard using JavaScript. The process is simple: special JavaScript functions add keyboard-related information to the browser caption and the program monitors it for changes.

Download the file with JavaScript functions and examples located at http://www.comfort-software.com/commander.html

These functions work in all well-known browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari...

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Barbetto80

Tue May 27 2008, 09:40AM

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Hi, i have seen your implementation for html page to load/unload the software.

It would be good if the open/close of the virtual keyboard could be called via javascript using the same classid....so that when you have a web page,

1) when you click on a text you should make it appear (onfocus)
2) and when you click somewhere else it disappear (onblur)

by now i only make a workaround by rewriting the pbject all tha time but this is just a workaround..

maybe you can implement 2 simple call in your activex to /show /notshow the program?

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Barbetto80

Tue May 27 2008, 10:30AM

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ps my workaround if useful:

<span id='int_tsc' style='position:absolute;top:-100px;left-100px;'></span>
<script>
var tsc_sh=\"<OBJECT ID='CsShowKeyboardFormX1' WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0 \";
tsc_sh+=\"CLASSID='CLSID:90B8E669-2EE4-47BC-B7C9-C0CB5C80A86E' \";
tsc_sh+=\"CODEBASE='http://www.comfort-software.com/keyboard/cskeyboard.ocx'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='Visible' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='AutoScroll' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='AutoSize' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='AxBorderStyle' VALUE='1'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='Caption' VALUE='Comfort On-Screen Keyboard Panel'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='Color' VALUE='4278190095'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='Font' VALUE='Tahoma'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='KeyPreview' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='PixelsPerInch' VALUE='96'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='PrintScale' VALUE='1'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='Scaled' VALUE='-1'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='DropTarget' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='HelpFile' VALUE=''> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='PopupMode' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='ScreenSnap' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='SnapBuffer' VALUE='10'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='DockSite' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='DoubleBuffered' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='UseDockManager' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='Enabled' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"<PARAM NAME='AlignWithMargins' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_sh+=\"</OBJECT>\";

var tsc_hi=\"<OBJECT ID='CsShowKeyboardFormX1' WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0 \";
tsc_hi+=\"CLASSID='CLSID:9D571E34-3146-471F-B148-2AC0989BC7A4' \";
tsc_hi+=\"CODEBASE='http://www.comfort-software.com/keyboard/cskeyboard.ocx'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='Visible' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='AutoScroll' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='AutoSize' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='AxBorderStyle' VALUE='1'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='Caption' VALUE='Comfort On-Screen Keyboard Panel'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='Color' VALUE='4278190095'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='Font' VALUE='Tahoma'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='KeyPreview' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='PixelsPerInch' VALUE='96'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='PrintScale' VALUE='1'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='Scaled' VALUE='-1'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='DropTarget' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='HelpFile' VALUE=''> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='PopupMode' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='ScreenSnap' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='SnapBuffer' VALUE='10'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='DockSite' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='DoubleBuffered' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='UseDockManager' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='Enabled' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"<PARAM NAME='AlignWithMargins' VALUE='0'> \";
tsc_hi+=\"</OBJECT>\";

function show_tsc() {
document.getElementById('int_tsc').innerHTML=tsc_sh;
}
function hide_tsc() {
document.getElementById('int_tsc').innerHTML=tsc_hi;
}
</script>

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Comfort

Tue May 27 2008, 02:17PM

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I cannot give an answer at once.
Maybe it will be useful to check a new option "Show the floating On-Screen Keyboard icon next to the text cursor when possible"?

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TheLandYacht

Tue Feb 03 2009, 03:57PM

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Tried your example. It works like a champ in Internet Explorer, but Firefox does nothing. Can you confirm?

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Comfort

Wed Feb 04 2009, 12:32AM

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What code don't work: http://www.comfort-software.com/download/keyboardx.zip or from Barbetto80?

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TheLandYacht

Sat Feb 07 2009, 06:18PM

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Comfort scrisse ...

What code don't work: http://www.comfort-software.com/download/keyboardx.zip or from Barbetto80?

Sorry, didn't realize there was a difference, didn't even look at the example pasted in.

Starting from your link in the first post. IE works fine, FF (most recent version) does not.

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Comfort

Thu Feb 12 2009, 01:07AM

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OCX and ActiveX elements work only with IE, and nothing else.