on screen keyboard

i would like to create my own keyboard on the screen. Since there are
going to be many buttons acting as keys, i would like to return the
button caption from the onclick event.

how do i do this? create a custom control? i heard they arent as easy
as in desktop apps. Also, what would capture the caption sent from the
onclick event?

basically i dont want to create many different functions for all the
buttons which are all doing the same thing, just returning their
caption to something when they are clicked.

what is the best way to do this?

Paul
Thu Oct 06 11:55:19 CDT 2005

If you want the same sort of on-screen keypad as Pocket PC has, that's done
with an unmanged code only extension called a software input panel, or SIP.
There are a few samples floating around, all in C++, of course. If you
wrote one of those, your panel would work with your application and any
other application that might want to use it. Characters clicked in the
keypad are almost automatically routed to the right place from a SIP.

This type of question has come up before, so you might search the archives
for information found by others in the past and hints.

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Paul T.

"Mortar" <a@b.com> wrote in message
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>i would like to create my own keyboard on the screen. Since there are
> going to be many buttons acting as keys, i would like to return the
> button caption from the onclick event.
>
> how do i do this? create a custom control? i heard they arent as easy
> as in desktop apps. Also, what would capture the caption sent from the
> onclick event?
>
> basically i dont want to create many different functions for all the
> buttons which are all doing the same thing, just returning their
> caption to something when they are clicked.
>
> what is the best way to do this?