Onscreen Keyboard!!!

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Onscreen Keyboard!!!
by fast_rizwaan on Friday 23/Sep/2005, @05:11

> Reproducing a qwerty keyboard on the screen is a terrible solution

You're right Leo, it is very difficult for non-typist to find "Alphabets" on the *onscreen keyboard*, causing more problem than solving the problem of typing with keyboard.

my opinion: why not arrange things in Columns like this: (this can be improved considerably); logically arranging for faster typing using mouse

-------------------------------------------------------------
Numbers and : [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [0] [,] [.] [!] [?] | [+] [-] [*] [/] [=]
punctuations
-------------------------------------------------------------
Alphabets : [a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f] [g] [h] [i] [j] [k] [l] [m]| [spacebar on the right side]
Lower case : [n] [o] [p] [q] [r] [s] [t] [u] [v] [w] [x] [y] [z]| [for easy]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------| [access]
Alphabets : [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M]|
Uppper case: [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z]|
----------------------------------------------------------------|
Symbols : [`] [~] [!] [@] [#] [$] [%] [^] [&] [*] [(] [)] [_]|
[+] [|] [[] []] [;] [:] ['] ["] [/]
----------------------------------------------------------------|

I'm missing function keys, HOME, INSERT, PAGEUP, etc., keys, you can fit it nicely. Also other languages can also be put like English keys, or as people have learnt the alphabet sequence.

The onscreen keyboard is meant for user's convenience, easy to work with one mouse button only. (because one of the user's hands could be injured or not present). thanks.

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Re: Onscreen Keyboard!!!
by Sebastian on Saturday 24/Sep/2005, @03:11

The idea of the default keyboard layout is to cluster important letters in a center region. Just an alphabetical order is a bad idea. Just conisider, i.e. in the German language the letters ERNSTL are contained in most words. I want to have them close to each other avoiding long distance mouse moves.

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Re: Onscreen Keyboard!!!
by Soul on Wednesday 20/Sep/2006, @02:26

I use WinXP on-screen keyboard and I think its very good - it looks almost like standard qwerty keyboard and works fine for me. The only thing i miss is a possibilty to change layout the way i need (i.e. to make it shorter by getting rid of numeric section). I think it would be hard to get used to unusual layout. qwerty is the best.

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