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Does this exist? customizable touch screen keyboard.

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Burn4Evr:

Since this board always seems to point me to new software I never knew existed, I figured I'd ask.
I'm looking for a program that will run on a touchscreen as a secondary monitor and act as an out of focus input....something like a touchscreen keyboard emulator. I know some programs have touchscreen keyboards built in, this would be more of a companion that would work with any other program.

Bonus points if it allows you to create your own button layout.
even more bonus points if it can automatically load layout profiles based on what game is loaded

I have a ton of ideas for something like this (especially with the cheap touchscreens out there)
One main one is an admin panel
Plus I think it would work great on some old school games, like playing mechwarrior and not remembering what button is nightvision, now you just press the "button" marked nightvision.

amendonz:

I was thinking pretty much exactly the same thing the other day. Interested to see what comes up.

drventure:

Based on what I know about windows, something like that in just software will likely be pretty tricky, since most touchscreens effectively emulate a mouse, and clicking around with a mouse will generally shift focus to the window you clicked in.

It might be possible to remember where focus was, and put it back after the click, or put it back after some delay period.

Hmmm....

BadMouth:

You might get something useful from this:
http://www.studio-lights.com/blog/iphone-inspired-kitchen-touchscreen-computer.htm

You can get a 30 day trial of the onscreen keyboard software from download.com

newmanfamilyvlogs:

Well it's not customizable, but the Windows OSK (on screen keyboard) does work surprisingly well:
http://www.bltt.org/software/xposk/osk_xp.htm

Been built into windows for a while. Just run 'osk' from the run prompt. Win7's added predictive text. It click on it's keys does not steal focus from the open window. I'm not sure how it behaves on multiple monitors with one screen having something full screen.

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