Soft keyboard for DeltaV Desktop on a touch screen HMI

Does anyone have a suggestion for a soft keyboard that can be used in the DeltaV Desktop on a touch screen?  The workstation is a Windows 7 box.  When I switch to the Windows Desktop environment, I can use the MS Tablet PC keyboard, but I don't want to give the operators access to the Windows Desktop if possible.

Thank you!

  • It appears that I've found a solution. Click-N-Type is a free onscreen keyboard that will function in the DeltaV Operate environment. It's a free download. To launch it, use the following syntax:

    frsRunTask "{File path to the Click-N-Type .exe file", ,False
  • In reply to TPatterson:

    Where did you write this script to? i need this to pop-up when the Operator clicks the Change User icon in Deltav Operate.
  • In reply to kaneriner508:

    I put a button on the screen that opened the keyboard and then click on the Login popup and start typing. I suppose you could put the script on the Login button so that it opens both.

    Good luck!
  • In reply to TPatterson:

    Thanks for the advice.
  • In reply to TPatterson:

    I would say, instead of the free download, you could use the Windows On-Screen Keyboard as well: OSK
  • In reply to Alfred Pol:

    I couldn't get OSK to work properly on the DeltaV desktop. However, if you got it to work that's great. I probably overlooked something simple.

    Thanks!
  • Hi there! I have a suggestion if you want to make the basic on-screen keyboard application (OSK) to work in both DeltaV Desktop and Windows Desktop.
    Context: On our project a button was configured on a graphic in such a way as by pressing it, to open the on-screen keyboard. In DeltaV Desktop mode didn't work because the application path used for OSK was situated somewhere in C:\Windows folder (not enough rights to access the folder).
    In a more detailed way, we searched on the whole computer for the OSK application and we found several .exe files for this application. One path comes together with the extension that FlexLock is using for the on-screen keyboard in DeltaV Desktop mode and this specific path is outside the C:\Windows folder.
    Solution in our case: for the button itselft, we edit the script in DeltaV Operate Configure and we inserted the following code with the proper path: frsruntask "C:\DeltaV\bin\osk.exe".
    Hope this will work for somebody else also, on our system is working well. From curiosity, waiting for some replies from you!
    Have a good day!
    (DeltaV version: 14.3.1)