Onscreen Virtual keyboard
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Wouldnt it be cool to have onscreen virtual keyboard on emulation station to be able to enter wifi password or enter text for search right within emulation station ? Would love take thoughts about the way togo about it and I can code it.
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Well, @jacobfk20 did have an on-screen keyboard as part of his Emulationstation mod. Might want to check that out before having to do any unnecessary work.
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@eddyman1us Here is a screen shot of @jacobfk20's onscreen keyboard in his Emulationstation mod.
You can a download the binary here. His Github repo is available at:
https://github.com/jacobfk20/EmulationStation/tree/Release-beta -
Ohh this is great thanks @lilbud and @dudleydes, any reason why this has not been implemented in the main retropie-emulationstation ?
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@eddyman1us I believe the on screen keyboard was built for the wifi module that's part of the Gridview mod for EmulationStation so that users can log onto their networks without a keyboard.
The Gridview mod is still in beta which is why the OSK isn't part of the version of ES in RetroPie. It may be possible to isolate the code for the OSK and then submit a Pull Request. This is beyond me, I'm afraid.
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@dudleydes thats makes sense, I will look into just applying the OSK to the stable emulationstation fork. Stay tuned....
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