VirtualKeyboard plugin

experimental

virtualkeyboard plugin by Ilya Lebedev
Add support of different input languages directly to page edit form

Last updated on 2007-01-13. Provides Action.
No compatibility info given!

Tagged with experimental, gui, i18n, input, keyboard.

Updated - 13 January, 2007 VirtualKeyboard v0.2.1 (98Kb, zip)
VirtualKeyboard v0.2.1 (86Kb, tar.gz)
VirtualKeyboard v0.2.1 (73Kb, 7z)
SVN repository, v0.2.1

This plugin implements the very special feature: text input in the different languages and keyboard layouts, without having them installed on your local system. Only the requirement - browser should support Unicode fonts to display the whole range of characters.

Plugin is tested in Mozilla FF 1.5&2.0, IE6.0&7.0, Opera 9.02.
Javascript engine is considered stable, although it is still under the development. Known issues are described below.

Notes

Configuration

No configuration is available for this release.

How to install

Download the http://debugger.ru/dl/virtualkeyboard.tar.gz file (101Kb) and unpack it into lib/plugins folder or use the plugin manager.

Changelog

  • 2007-01-13 Version 0.2.1:
    • Switched to VirtualKeyboard v3.0b2
  • 2007-01-12 Version 0.2:
    • Switched to VirtualKeyboard v3.0b1
  • 2007-01-04 Version 0.1:
    • First public release

Todo

  • Add configuration
    1. keyboard view (inline, popup, draggable)
    2. active languages
  • Keyboard skins

Known issues

  • Imcomplete Opera support - it does incorrectly handles non-alphanumeric keys in keyboard events, like layout-dependent key codes, mess control key codes with char ASCII codes (i.e. Del gives code 46, means '.' (dot) symbol). Also, Opera does not allow to process Alt key pressing.
  • memory leakage and bad input performance after several reloads.

Bugs

Discussion

Feature request

Possible features

 
plugin/virtualkeyboard.txt · Last modified: 2007/12/31 17:09 by xxovercastxx
 
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