Virtual keyboard - Spider & TE35

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Greetings…newbie here. Just got my FEX Spider and TE35 LCD. I’m working on a project and wondered if there is a way to use the TE35 LCD as a virtual keyboard to enter a name. I don’t need special characters…just letters.

I’ve seen some touchscreen examples on the web but they’re few and far between. Anyone done anything like that before?

Thank you

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Welcome to the forum.

GHI provides a free library called Glide which contains a graphic keyboard. After a bit of reading about Glide, you should be able to
setup a keyboard.

http://www.ghielectronics.com/glide

Once you get the name from the “virutal keyboard” what are you going to do with it?

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Thanks for the reply Mike…I’ll look into the Glide library. I’ve had some experience with an Atmel dev board with resistive touch so it should be a no brainer.

I actually developing a system wthat will send sensor data to a SQL server based on Michael Dodaro’s “Sending .NET Gadgeteer Sensor Data to a REST Web Service”. In his example, the user name is static. I am wanting to improve the process by allowing the user to key in a name and save that name as the userName variable. Nothing heavy duty, just making it a bit more flexible.

Thanks again