Bob,

 

We have two different solutions here.  For both we are using thin-client
devices with touch screens; one is RF, the other is wired, but that's not
important.

 

In one case the thin client itself has a built-in facility that puts a
keyboard on the bottom of the screen where the user can touch the input.  In
the other case we built an on-screen keyboard in a separate form that is
launched whenever the user touches a button.  (It is handled this way
because a scanner might be used for the field input.)  You could, though,
simply have your on-entry eep load the keyboard form.

 

The keyboard form is nothing more than a bunch of rectangle shapes arranged
in a QWERTY layout with "on click" eeps to add the appropriate letter to a
string variable.

 

Emmitt Dove

Manager, DairyPak Business Systems

Evergreen Packaging, Inc.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(203) 643-8022

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Castanaro,
Bob
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:08 AM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Touch Screen question

 

List,

 

I am just now investigating whether I can write an app for a touch screen
PC.

The clients want something they have on a different system.

Here's what it does:

A lot of items are check boxes, so that will be easy, but some fields need
to be text entry, like names.  An app they are using brings up a box where
they print letters and this converts like OCR to fill in the field.

Does anyone have any experience with this?  How do I get  this text entry
box to come up - what software, and how do I attach this to an R:base field?

Sounds like an add-on product for Access or whatever, do we have something
like this for R:Base?

 

Robert M. Castanaro 
Director, Surgical Services, Clinic and Pain Services 
Summa Health System Barberton Hospital 
155 Fifth Street N.E. 
Barberton, Ohio  44203 
Phone 330-615-3627 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 



 

 

 

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