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[technosaurus]

If you have a tablet PC, don't have a keyboard handy, or need to be able to operate one-handed using only a mouse; having an always available on-screen keyboard can be really handy. It is really easy with jwm in Puppy.
You will need an on-screen keyboard program for this to work - I have included a simple one called xvkbd, but have tested it with gtkeyboard as well.

add this to a standard puppy's /root/.jwmrc-tray for a dropdown keyboard (right after the <JWM> tag)

<Tray autohide="true" halign="center" valign="top"><Swallow name="xvkbd">xvkbd -no-keypad</Swallow></Tray>

remove -no-keypad if you want the number pad

to get a pop-UP menu instead (for macPup style with a top task bar), just change valign="top" to valign="bottom"

(may interfere with ptray - fixed by setting halign= or valign to a different locations)

[zigbert]

technosaurus

Cool feature

I will integrate with the next Ptray


Thank you
Sigmund

[zigbert]

Hi again
Your work gave me an idea.

Since xvkbd worked well Ptray, I also added a calculator.
This technique can be used for several tasks. notepad, filesearch.....
I tried xpad and fileedit, but they didn't work well. Then I made my own test-notepad, but jwm wouldn't swallow it. Have you solved an issue like this before ???

[lwill]

Quite some time ago I made a small button for the tray to switch the left and right mouse buttons for a "ProGear" tablet I was playing with using 2.17.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=208907#208907
Since with a touch screen you cannot "right click" it worked well, but was very simple. I am sure some one could make a much better looking one than I did. I still have the code somewhere if you think it would be a useful.

(I actually drug it out the other day and got it to work as a baby video monitor. Pretty slow with only "b" wireless, but worked)

[technosaurus]

@Zigbert: name="xvkbd" (for instance) has to be the correct name
top or pprocess may give you the proper name (I use a gtk1 app called gps) - gtkdialog has the ability to change these, correct?

[zigbert]

technosaurus
You're right

Thanks a lot
Sigmund

[zigbert]

[01micko]

oooh ziggy

Nice!



Looking forward to the next DuDE

Cheers

edit: did you mean focus with xvkbd? That is working for me too.

[zigbert]

Mick
Yes, everything works normally when you run Pnote 'the normal way', but the intention here is much cooler..... To run it inside a autohidden jwm-tray. - then I get the focus bug.....

Though, I have managed to build some kind of workaround


Sigmund

[zigbert]

I am not able to change keyboard layout (I want norwegian) as described in the manual. Is it the compile, Puppy, me, ???....


Sigmund

[technosaurus]

There were additional language type files included in the source, but Puppy is missing some templates from imake, so I built just the binary using a gcc one-liner with parameters taken from the included imake files

Those files may need to go in /usr/shared/??? or they may have compiled in, but it is worth downloading the source for the documentation, since there are quite a few optional parameters.

... usually the parameter would be something like
-DATADIR=\"/usr/share/xvkbd\"
however I do not recall needing to add that to get it to compile