#21 Pop-up, auxiliary "soft" keyboard

[Yosh Mantinband]

There always seem to be characters that one needs that aren't
going to fit on the overlay.

How about a user-configurable
soft keyboard that can be popped up like the built-in alpha & numeric
keyboards? (e..g, via one of those special meta-keys).

I'd
throw all the chars on it that I need once in a while for which I can never
remember the garaffiti strokes.

[Olaf Dietsche]

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If you want a configurable built-in keyboard replacement,
then VirtaulKB could be for you:

http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/virtualkb.shtml

This works together with quicktype.

[Yosh Mantinband]

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thanks.

VirtualKB does look nifty, but...

it is not easily
*user* configurable. I'd need to learn how to create a Palm resource file &
get the tools to do so. And then i'd have to go and recompile it each time i
want to add a new character. That might be hard if I'm on an airplane or a
bus at the time i want to do it...

i was hoping for something as easy
to use & modify as quicktype...

[Rick Reynolds]

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Olaf,

I'd like to put in another request for this kind of feature.
In particular, VirtualKB doesn't work under OS5. I'd
actually be comfortable creating my own keyboard resource
for it, but it won't run on my Treo 600. I'd love to be
able to pop up a QuickType keyboard that would function just
like the built-in virtual keyboard.

I'd even be willing to do some of the work on this. I was
able to put a patch in for the Hack version, but now that
I'm in an OS5 environment it's not for me anymore. I don't
know enough about creating an OS5 piece of software that
would popup like that -- if you could get the framework in
place, I could probably take the development from there.

[Olaf Dietsche]

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It depends on what you want to do. If it's just a one shot
popup, you could try to launch your dialog from
processSpecial().

If you want to replace the built-in virtual keyboard, like
VKB does, you can register your own notification
(sysNotifyKeyboardDialogEvent). This notification is
broadcast whenever the builtin keyboard is to be displayed.
For this you could copy the quicktype source and build an
independant application. This has the benefit, that your
keyboard would work whenever the system keyboard is
requested, just like VKB works.