On Screen Keyboard layout for a Touch screen

[Benzie]

Hope someone can help.

We are trying to design a Mouseless and keyboardless data entry layout for an Touch screen application.

All data entry must be by touching the Alphanumeric keyboard design

We have designed the keyboard (Querty style) but cannot find a way to implement the "Backspace". "delete" or "back or forward arrow keys"

Any ideas???

Thanks

[Ocean West]

Couldn't you set the field to itself less the last character. using the some of the design features like getfield. or status current field. I am not sure how you would tackele the Arrow keys.

[Vaughan]

To simipify things I'd not allow the user to move the cursor anywhere through the typed text: keep it at the end. That way, backspace is simply the string minus the last character and the forward elete and arrow key functions disappear.

Implementing arrow keys is getting harder the more I think about it. Left and right might be achievable, but up and down pose lots of problems.

Simplify! (Thanks Keith!)

[Benzie]

Vaughan,

Thanks for the suggestion - what would the script step be?

Thanks

[jasonwood]

I think it would be...

Set field, MYFIELD =

Left(MYFIELD, Length (MYFIELD) - 1)

[Benzie]

Hi Jason,

Thank you, I have tried that and it returns "O" in place of any text.

Paul

[BobWeaver]

Sounds like one of the fields has been defined as a number.

[Benzie]

Thank you all, now working

My error!

Paul

[Benzie]

Thank you all for the input. Another problem has arisen. I wish to be able to use the backspace irrespective which field is "active". Is there a way of checking which is the active field?

Thanks

[jasonwood]

Status (CurrentFieldName)

will return the name of the current field.