Re: Touch Screen Keyboard?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 10:16 -0600, Aaron Geier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am developing a GUI that I’m thinking about making completely a
> touchscreen interface.
> 
> My question, is anyone aware of an easy way to do a touchscreen
> keyboard?  For example, if the user wants to type something into a
> textbox, the user would touch the textbox and a window that displays
> the keyboard (or number pad) is displayed, and the user is able to
> type what they want and it will go into the textbox that the user
> touched.
> 
> I thought I’d put this question out there and see anyone knew of
> someone who has already written something like this for gtkmm.

Maemo has an on-screen keyboard for their N770/N800 internet tablet.
Some of it might be (or might be in future) open source.

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