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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