Keyboard

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Kalipso offers you a set of virtual Keyboards (Alphanumeric, Numeric and Calendar) to avoid the use of Windows virtual keyboard. You’ll see that our Keyboards come with handy features that saves you time, and also that they are more practical to the end user. You can open a Keyboard via the “Keyboard” Action.

Its design can be modified only for Windows Mobile, Windows CE and Desktop.

Window

Keyboard Window properties that you can manage.

• Width Ratio - Default width ratio of the Keyboards. You can define the default size of the Kalipso Keyboards. Since the Keyboards have different sizes, we let you define their width by percentage. Although this value is the default, you can override it in each “Keyboard” Action.

• Height Ratio - Default height ratio of the Keyboards. You can define the default size of the Kalipso Keyboards. Since the Keyboards have different sizes, we let you define their height by percentage. Although this value is the default, you can override it in each “Keyboard” Action.

• Background Color - Background color of the Keyboards. You can define the background color of the Kalipso's Keyboard Window. You cannot override this property in each “Keyboard” Action.

The following options replace the functionality indicated on the terminal screen.

Option	Description
"OK" Button	By default "OK"
"Cancel" Button	By default "Cancel"
"Space" Button	By default "Space"
"Caps Lock" Button	By default "Caps Lock"
"Shift" Button	By default "Shift"
"Clear" Button	By default "Clear"
"Enter" Button	By default "Enter"

When using a keyboard, to assign specific functions, as indicated in the table above, the description can be changed to the language to be used in the application or to a more appropriate expression. Or use a function from Kalipo.

Input Box

Keyboard Window Input Box properties that you can manage.

• Font - Font Name to apply to the text displayed in the input box of the Keyboards.

• Properties - Font Properties to apply to the text displayed in the input box of the Keyboards. Hypotheses: None, Bold, underlined, Italic, Bold Italic, Bold underlined, Bold italic underlined, Italic underlined.

• Size - Font Size to apply to the text displayed in the input box of the Keyboards. From size 6 to 20.

• Border - Define if you want to add a border to the input box of the Keyboards.

Buttons

Keyboard Window Button's properties that you can manage.

• Control Type - You can define the type of Control used for the Buttons. You can define either a regular Button or an Image Control. If you define an Image Control, you have the ability to define a more stylish object and also select special effects.

• Font - Font Name to apply to the text displayed in each button of the Keyboards.

• Properties - Font Properties to apply to the text displayed in each button of the Keyboards.

• Size - Font Size to apply to the text displayed in each button of the Keyboards.

• Border - Define if you want to add a border to the text each button of the Keyboards, regardless of being a Button or Image.

• Font Color - Color to apply to the text displayed in each button of the Keyboards.

The following options/properties will only be available if you select the Control Type "Image".

• Background Color - Color to apply to the Background of each button of the Keyboards.

• Button Effect - When selecting the Control Type "Image", you can define which type effect you want to apply to the Image so it can look like a Button

  • None - No effect. The image is displayed as it is and the user has no knowledge that he as clicked the Image Control.

  • Automatic - An automatic 3D border is added to the image. This border changes when the user presses the Image Control in order to give him the notion that he has clicked on it.

  • Second Image - An automatic 3D border is added to the image. This border changes when the user presses the Image Control in order to give him the notion that he has clicked on it.

• Transparency - Type of transparency that you want to apply to the image.

  • None - No transparency will be applied. The color in the GIF, defined as transparent, will be shown as it is.

  • First Pixel - The color of the first pixel of the Image will be considered as the transparent one, therefore will not be shown and the pixels with this color will be transparent, thus displaying the "Background Color".

  • Image Transparency - The GIF will be displayed with is transparency.

  • Specify Color - The color specified in “Transparency Color” property will be consider as the transparent one, therefore will not be shown and the pixels with this color will be transparent.

• Transparency Color - Color of the selected image that you want to be transparent.

• Image Normal - Image file to be used as default by the Image Control.

• Image Pressed - Image file to be displayed when the user presses the Image Control, in order to look like a button.