OnScreen Keyboard

[reven]

i was wondering what would be the best way to do a onscreen keyboard, and i came to this conclusion. implement it the same way you use a dialogbox. it returns a result, the main program/plugin has no control and it just waits for the dialogbox to finish. by doing it this way the onscreen keyboard would easily be used over and over again, and only require a few lines of code to be implemented (perhaps even one). so something like
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">string text = onscreenkeyboard.showdialog()[/QUOTE]
which returns the entered text. null if cancel was clicked or something. now my question, is this possible using gbpvr's api ?

and bigger question, anyone else what to write it ?

also this onscreen keyboard could be skinned in one place and used frequently.

thoughts, comments, see a major fault in my reasoning?

[sub]

Quote[/b] ]now my question, is this possible using gbpvr's api ?

No, you'd need more lines of code. GB-PVR has no way to now about you dialog, so wont give it any chance to render itself. You need to call render() on the dialog class when you plugin's render() method is called.

[reven]

i was thinking of like a plugin over a plugin. so the keyboard plugin only paints over itself, leaving the original plugins last paint surrounding it. since the onscreen keyboard wont take up the entire screen, and could easily just repaint over itself without the worry about leaving things onscreen just paint over em.
so it wont paint a background, just a foreground.

im just fiddling over making a easy and reusable onscreen keyboard, that requires a plugin to use bugger all code and can easily get a string back.

[jasonf]

Jorm has written an onscreen keyboard. Are you duplicating efforts?

And I know that right now it's vaporware, but I actually have a decent start on the Widget Library. The design goals of the controls part of the library include reusability and consistency. I had hoped to have had a public version available by now, but no luck fitting a lot of developing-for-fun into my 4th Quarter work schedule.

If you (or others) are interested in helping, or at least seeing the source code as it exists today, drop me a PM.

[jorm]

My code and the example plugin that it is used in is available on the wiki site under Fast Find.

You are more than welcome to modify it. I have not had the time yet, I am sorry to add it to the widget library.

The only development besides work that I have had the opportunity to work on in the last few weeks is the zap2it database. I still need to build the dll interface for plugin users and expand my existing plugins along with KingArgles recording tool (add recording based on description in file) to use the new data.

Anyways try out fast find and let me know what you think of its onscreen keyboard.

[reven]

yeah i was thinking of that, but just trying to make it easier to implement. lastest idea (this mightnt be possible, never tried something like this) but maybe i could extend an dialog box, and override the paint method, or a similar control. and paint it directly into the window and not a new popup box. thus it would be seen on the pvr350/xcard etc, and also it would have complete focus, and wouldnt have to worry about the original plugin.

otherwise i have to do tests in the onkeypress, mouseclick, and other places etc, which could get messy and annoying.