Jan,
We used all caps, so the shift was not used. You could, however, trap a touch of the shift key into a variable and use that to uppercase the next entry, or have another button for caps lock. The [Enter] key was used to end the input process, so that "key's" eep handled the exit from the form. I neglected to mention that this was all done in a stored procedure, of course, so it can be called from anywhere it might be needed. The keyboard has all the alpha characters, all the numbers, space bar, backspace, enter key, comma and period since those were the only characters we were interested in capturing. Emmitt Dove Manager, DairyPak Business Systems Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (203) 643-8022 From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Johansen Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:46 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Touch Screen question Emmitt, Cool!. I just did a numeric touch keyboard using the same approach. How did you handle the things like the [Enter] key and holding the [Shift] key for capitalization? The easy approach is to find the way to lauch the touch keyboard (which I am looking into). Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: Emmitt Dove <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:31 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Touch Screen question Bob, We have two different solutions here. For both we are using thin-client devices with touch screens; one is RF, the other is wired, but that's not important. In one case the thin client itself has a built-in facility that puts a keyboard on the bottom of the screen where the user can touch the input. In the other case we built an on-screen keyboard in a separate form that is launched whenever the user touches a button. (It is handled this way because a scanner might be used for the field input.) You could, though, simply have your on-entry eep load the keyboard form. The keyboard form is nothing more than a bunch of rectangle shapes arranged in a QWERTY layout with "on click" eeps to add the appropriate letter to a string variable. Emmitt Dove Manager, DairyPak Business Systems Evergreen Packaging, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (203) 643-8022 From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Castanaro, Bob Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:08 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Touch Screen question List, I am just now investigating whether I can write an app for a touch screen PC. The clients want something they have on a different system. Here's what it does: A lot of items are check boxes, so that will be easy, but some fields need to be text entry, like names. An app they are using brings up a box where they print letters and this converts like OCR to fill in the field. Does anyone have any experience with this? How do I get this text entry box to come up - what software, and how do I attach this to an R:base field? Sounds like an add-on product for Access or whatever, do we have something like this for R:Base? Robert M. Castanaro Director, Surgical Services, Clinic and Pain Services Summa Health System Barberton Hospital 155 Fifth Street N.E. Barberton, Ohio 44203 Phone 330-615-3627 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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