Design Team/Proposals/Touchscreen/On-screen Keyboard/Examples iOS: Difference between revisions

In this source code editor, note the extra row with commonly used source code characters. The developer here has increased the character density by implementing a custom joystick like behaviour where touching a key and releasing triggers the middle character, but touching and sliding in any of the NE SE SW NW directions triggers a character in a key corner.

[[File:IOS lua source code editor with custom keyboard.PNG | 600px]]

This Lua source environment has a custom keyboard strip that adds more advanced features than just extra characters, several of these keys pop-up palettes with symbols and context sensitive help.

[[File:IOS python source code editor with custom keyboard.PNG | 450px]]

Another example of a python source code editor with a custom keyboard strip.

[[File:IOS Java Processing environment keyboard.PNG | 450px]]

Custom keyboard strip for a Java Processing environment.

[[File:IOS ssh shell terminal emulation custom keyboard.PNG | 450px]]

Extra key strip for this ssh console terminal emulator.

[[File:IOS OKS example with extra custom keys.png | 450px]]

A simple text editor uses an extra keyboard strip for providing easy access to commonly used punctuation (even though they are accessible through extra key presses with the standard keyboard).

[[File:IOS OKS Wolfram example with many extra custom keys.png | 450px]]

Wolfram's app has MANY extra keys ;)

[[File:IOS OKS Numbers example with context sensitive keyboard.png | 450px]]

Numbers uses several context sensitive keyboard for inputting numerical data, date information, formulas, as well a just text.