Enhanced chars application

To allow operation without a keyboard.

eg for touchbook

For the Touch Book (or anything else requiring an onscreen keyboard) I’m planning on going one better and displaying the onscreen keyboard using a video overlay. Obviously it will only work on systems with video overlays, but it will allow the onscreen keyboard to work outside of the desktop, or in other single-tasking situations (e.g. wimp error boxes).

Does that mean the program is limited to devices with an overlay?

Or just enhanced on them?

…going one better and displaying the onscreen keyboard using a video overlay. Obviously it will only work on systems with video overlays…

For a desktop onscreen keyboard, there’s the Solo computer project. Does anyone here have any knowledge/experience of this? (However, it seems pretty unlikely that anyone with a RiscPC or Iyonix would ditch their physical keyboard to rely on a touchscreen for typing… in which case I can’t see that it’d really matter if Jeffrey’s superior overlay proposal only worked on newer systems.)

The Solo keyboard is what I was thinking of.

(Functionally it is the qwerty layout and keys such as enter and the cursors that I am requesting be added to chars)

It could have uses to an Iyonix (or RPC) user. Multiple languages as mentioned in the page you linked to, emergency use when a keyboard is unavailable or simple interaction on a presentation.

The Acorn newspad must have had a similar solution to the problem, does ROOL have access to it?

http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/Computers/NC.html#NewsPAD

NCOS used to have one called !NCKeyboard, ROOL might have the sources for it somewhere inside the unreleased code.