Using Citect with Touchscreens (no keyboard)

Does anyone use Citect with touchscreen monitors? If so, how do you get a proper on-screen keyboard to display? (e.g. one with full functionality, not just a bunch of all-caps keys and numbers, as in the Citect form from the Toolbox)

The suggested way from support is to launch the Windows osk. But I seem to fight with this every time, with Exec either not having privilege to run commands, the osk bringing up errors "cannot launch" or just an error box which is blank. I've tried the solutions in all of the relevant KB / TN articles, including one from Wonderware.

What are others' experiences with this, and how do you go about it?

One solution I've found to work is to circumvent using the Windows osk and its launch issues, and go with a free osk (e.g. www.freevirtualkeyboard.com), however many customers see using applications from the ineternet as security risks (and rightly so).

It's incredibly frustrating that a native osk has not been developed yet, as this is something available on almost all other platforms I've used, and is imperative to touchscreen operation :/

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  • Note that I designed that Cicode Keyboard so you can easily customize it for your own language or special characters. Just open the !Keypad page and double-click a key button. The genie form allows you to enter the character for that key, and optionally an alternative character for Shift mode (or Shift mode just capitalizes the normal character).

    You can make more key buttons or delete them. I haven't tried it with non-English characters, but as far as I know it should work. You don't need to edit any Cicode.

    It would be nicer if Citect had a built-in on-screen keyboard. You can always request that feature from Citect support.

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  • Note that I designed that Cicode Keyboard so you can easily customize it for your own language or special characters. Just open the !Keypad page and double-click a key button. The genie form allows you to enter the character for that key, and optionally an alternative character for Shift mode (or Shift mode just capitalizes the normal character).

    You can make more key buttons or delete them. I haven't tried it with non-English characters, but as far as I know it should work. You don't need to edit any Cicode.

    It would be nicer if Citect had a built-in on-screen keyboard. You can always request that feature from Citect support.

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