Is there any support for a larger keyboard for the likes of the CP7 size displays?
The current one is just way too small for my display. Something that works with 800 x 480 would be nice 
my keyboard has 22x6 keys, and that’s more than I usually need :whistle:
Joke aside: What GUI lib are you using?
Glide!! That’s why I posted in the GLIDE forum!! 
PS… Hopefully you can get Clix2 going and I can switch over to that instead
Couldn’t look into Clix so far, but will do at the weekend.
If touch keyboard is not available for high res LCD, then I put it on my task list for Clix.
I think I need to get some more HW for this. May be a raptor, TE42, CP7 :think:
Just some out of budget toys, as always :whistle:
there is a constructure to calculate a new glide keybord.
public Keyboard(
int width,
int height,
int numViews,
int keyHeight,
int keySpacing)
i don’t use it before but I think this is the right way do get a bigger keyboard
Clix/Tinkr does autosize the keyboard to fit the screen appropriately. It generally will take uo about 3/4 the available height & 100% width with 3 layout modes (qwerty, azerty and numeric)
I’d convert to Clix2 but it’s a daunting task as this app has some 15 screens now and expanding as the client puts more into the system.
I think I can create a larger keyboard with Glide but still trying to work out how it does this by browsing through the code for it. There seems to have been a few changes to the way keyboard drawing is now done.
If I remember Glides keyboard is just an image that’s displayed on screen and it has rects defined for the buttons, which is why there’s only one size
I got it working. They have at least provided function calls to change it and you need to make a new graphic for starter. I just resized the 480x272 sample I had. I’ll do a nice new one later.
You also create the new width for each key.
Height is supplied during the constructor.
Finally a call to CalculateKeys() and you now have a new keyboard for your screen size.
Dave - I use this code and these images with an 800 x 480 display on a Cobra 1:
// set custom keyboard
Glide.Keyboard = InitKeyboard();
private static Keyboard InitKeyboard()
{
Keyboard keyboard = new Keyboard(680, 272, 3, 68, 0);
// each view with keys in a up position.
keyboard.BitmapUp = new Bitmap[4]
{
new Bitmap(Resources.GetBytes(Resources.BinaryResources.Keyboard_680x272_Uppercase), Bitmap.BitmapImageType.Gif),
new Bitmap(Resources.GetBytes(Resources.BinaryResources.Keyboard_680x272_Lowercase), Bitmap.BitmapImageType.Gif),
new Bitmap(Resources.GetBytes(Resources.BinaryResources.Keyboard_680x272_Numbers), Bitmap.BitmapImageType.Gif),
new Bitmap(Resources.GetBytes(Resources.BinaryResources.Keyboard_680x272_Symbols), Bitmap.BitmapImageType.Gif)
};
// set the default key content.
string[][] keyContent = new string[4][];
// letters
keyContent[0] = new string[10] { "q", "w", "e", "r", "t", "y", "u", "i", "o", "p" };
keyContent[1] = new string[9] { "a", "s", "d", "f", "g", "h", "j", "k", "l" };
keyContent[2] = new string[9] { Keyboard.ActionKey.ToggleCase, "z", "x", "c", "v", "b", "n", "m", Keyboard.ActionKey.Backspace };
keyContent[3] = new string[5] { Keyboard.ActionKey.ToNumbers, ",", Keyboard.ActionKey.Space, ".", Keyboard.ActionKey.Return };
keyboard.SetViewKeyContent(Keyboard.View.Letters, keyContent);
// numbers
keyContent[0] = new string[10] { "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "0" };
keyContent[1] = new string[10] { "@ ", "#", "$", "%", "&", "*", "-", "+", "(", ")" };
keyContent[2] = new string[9] { Keyboard.ActionKey.ToSymbols, "!", "\"", "'", ":", ";", "/", "?", Keyboard.ActionKey.Backspace };
keyContent[3] = new string[5] { Keyboard.ActionKey.ToLetters, ",", Keyboard.ActionKey.Space, ".", Keyboard.ActionKey.Return };
keyboard.SetViewKeyContent(Keyboard.View.Numbers, keyContent);
// symbols
keyContent[0] = new string[10] { "~", "`", "|", "•", "√", "π", "÷", "×", "{", "}" };
keyContent[1] = new string[10] { Keyboard.ActionKey.Tab, "£", "¢", "€", "º", "^", "_", "=", "[", "]" };
keyContent[2] = new string[9] { Keyboard.ActionKey.ToNumbers, "™", "®", "©", "¶", "\\", "<", ">", Keyboard.ActionKey.Backspace };
keyContent[3] = new string[5] { Keyboard.ActionKey.ToLetters, ",", Keyboard.ActionKey.Space, ".", Keyboard.ActionKey.Return };
keyboard.SetViewKeyContent(Keyboard.View.Symbols, keyContent);
// or we could just call this:
// keyboard.DefaultKeyContent();
int[][] keyWidth = new int[4][];
// Each array entry represents a row of keys on the keyboard top-down (0-3)
// Each array within these entries contains the widths of the keys for that row.
// For example: keyWidth[0] = new int[10] { 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68 }
// represents the first row (0) which contains the keys Q, W, E, R, T, Y, U, I, O, P
// Letters
keyWidth[0] = new int[10] { 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68 };
keyWidth[1] = new int[9] { 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68 };
keyWidth[2] = new int[9] { 102, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 102 };
keyWidth[3] = new int[5] { 102, 68, 340, 68, 102 };
keyboard.SetViewKeyWidth(Keyboard.View.Letters, keyWidth);
// Numbers
keyWidth[0] = new int[10] { 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68 };
keyWidth[1] = new int[10] { 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68 };
keyWidth[2] = new int[9] { 102, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 102 };
keyWidth[3] = new int[5] { 102, 68, 340, 68, 102 };
keyboard.SetViewKeyWidth(Keyboard.View.Numbers, keyWidth);
// Symbols
keyWidth[0] = new int[10] { 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68 };
keyWidth[1] = new int[10] { 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68 };
keyWidth[2] = new int[9] { 102, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 68, 102 };
keyWidth[3] = new int[5] { 102, 68, 340, 68, 102 };
keyboard.SetViewKeyWidth(Keyboard.View.Symbols, keyWidth);
keyboard.CalculateKeys();
return keyboard;
}
Thanks jasdev. Your images a nice and sharp compared to the expanded ones I created and it looks a little nicer than going the full width of the LCD. With 5" it still makes for nice sized keys!
Cheers.
@ Dave McLaughlin - Yes they do look nice! I think I got them from a project GHI published a couple of years ago.