KeyTouch_Alpha

Description:A touchscreen keypad with support for alphabetic, numeric, and special characters. Responds to calculator color theme settings and language settings. When set to German, French, Spanish or Portuguese, a long-press on certain keys will reveal accent characters.
Filename:keytouch_alpha.zip
ID:9105
Current version:1.0
Author:Jacob Wall: https://sgss.ca/
Downloaded file size:156,683 bytes
Size on calculator:72 KB
Platforms:Prime  
User rating:Not yet rated (you must be logged in to vote)
Primary category:Utils
Languages:ENG  
File date:2019-12-31 19:24:42
Creation date:2019-12-31
Source code:Included
Download count:1,351
Version history:2019-12-31: Added to site
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   142104  2019-12-31 16:02   v1_KeyTouch_Alpha/KeyTouch_Alpha.pdf
    14142  2019-12-31 15:38   v1_KeyTouch_Alpha/KeyTouch_Alpha.png
    30126  2019-12-31 15:37   v1_KeyTouch_Alpha/KeyTouch_Alpha.txt
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Screenshot:Screenshot
User comments:Sara Sparks
2025-05-19 05:10:43
Wow, this is insanely useful! What I did was modify it to remove the initial "Hello World" and have it return the string that was typed. Then I set up a program with:

KEY K_Help()
BEGIN
RETURN GetString();
END;

Now, any time I want to type something, I can quickly press Shift and then double-tap Help (one tap for User + another for K_Help, mnemonic is it "helps" me type) to open the on-screen keyboard, I can type what I want quickly and fluidly, then press Enter and it's right there as if I typed it using the Alpha keys.

Thank you so much for coding this! I actually wonder why this isn't a built-in feature; I had heard of calculators with QWERTY keyboards not being allowed on exams, but they could easily have added a toggle for it in Exam Mode.

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