On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:31, you wrote: > I have a tablet style device with linux drivers. It has no keyboard > (although you can plug one in). However I want to control it just on the > built in screen. > > Does anyone know of an on screen keyboard that works on a text console > and is controllable simply with a mouse (which is what the touchscreen > emulates).
Have you considered mouse gestures? Opera has them and Mozilla might do (haven't looked). It's not a keyboard, but specific gestures can be used to perform specific actions, which might be what you want. Some examples are: tap play/pause stroke right fast fwd stroke left rewind clockwise loop repeat There are obviously lots of gestures that could be mapped (think Graffiti on the Palm Pilot). The simple ones are: 8 crosses and diagonals clockwise and anticlockwise loops a tap a double tap That's 12, and you need 16 (you say). Some of them are context related, so power, for example could be a tap (or any gesture), since nothing else makes sense. That leaves 15. I'd suggest that you'd probably have a keyboard hooked up for debugging, so ignore 'debug' and that leaves 14. As to what software out there will do gestures, I'll leave that to your google-fu. I hope this is a helpful suggestion nonetheless. Andy
