It is full screen, you click the keyboard icon and it opens the native Windows 10 touch keyboard.
Can we have the option to do this in SambaPOS? I’d suggest rather than change something many already like with the built in SambaPOS keyboard, but add the option to allow the keyboard button in bottom left to invoke the Windows touch keyboard instead of the SambaPOS one?
@VehbiEmiroglu is this straightforward to do? I also appreciate this may only be supported in Windows 10 and Windows 8?
There are many benefits to this. We usually have some customers having to use an overlay button to invoke the Windows touch keyboard because they need that for foreign language input, for example Chinese input where the Windows touch keyboard IME supports handwriting input. Without setting the overlay button in Windows, which no matter where you place it it’s going to obstruct something at some point, there is no easy way to display the Windows touch keyboard without using a mouse or physical keyboard to access the button from the Windows taskbar.
No it’s not OSK. OSK is an accessibility feature and AFAIK it doesn’t support all the IMEs. It’s also quite inflexible from the few times I’ve had to use it.
What is happening here with this software is it’s triggering the Windows touch keyboard to show. That is, same as clicking the touch keyboard icon on the taskbar.
Anyway, its good that works but we need it to work from the native Keyboard button as usually on the POS screen is not where you need the keyboard - it is more so in Manage when adding products, etc.
Yeah this would be my preferred option. It’s only going to work on Windows 8 or above. As @VehbiEmiroglu says many customers still use Windows 7 where it can’t be supported and the existing SambaPOS keyboard works for those. But being able to support the Windows keyboard is better than the SambaPOS one. For us and I would say a lot of resellers, any new system being sold now is going to be Windows 10. We haven’t supplied a Windows 7 system for few years now - the license for Windows 10 is half the price also.
After next year, majority of new install could very well become Win10 though.
Win7 has a similar touch keyboard with proper install. As Mark said, it is pretty important for users/resellers who uses a foreign language that are using handwriting.
How about as you said make it as a option and we can run an installation task to add the button both in management and the POS screens?
Hmm, your customers did not ask for that in their POS?
Some customers are more familiar using the search ability and thus typing(or writing the product out). When I operate my Cafe, I type the product name instead of going through menus. At the time, all my product names were in English so the build in Samba keyboard is good enough but when I moved back to NYC, some customers want to WRITE Chinese instead of typing it. Sigh.
You can use Google Pinyin for Chinese keyboard. When you type any chinese word, pinyin is auto converting this. I’ve tested this before in the SambaPos.
Sadly MANY Hong Kongers cannot type Chinese, Hong Kongers mostly only know how to write Chinese, so the hand recognition input method is almost a must for them. I ran into some of them who cannot even read simplified Chinese characters not to mention using the Pinyin. Sigh.
No, I never made that. That keyboard button is hardcoded. I only made a button that will bring up Windows version with the regional settings you set up.
You can use Windows 10 keyboard for Chinese. For Hongkonger’s install Chinese traditional, Hong Kong language then Microsoft Quick keyboard, install handwriting support. Then they can write with windows native on screen keyboard. Note they will need to launch keyboard using taskbar icon (make SambaPOS to windows) or using keyboard shortcut. This request was to allow SambaPOS keyboard button to trigger native windows on screen keyboard which I think is valuable feature especially for non English keyboards.
Definitely using windows on screen keyboard is fiddly especially with SambaPOS as full screen, but it does work.
