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==== Touch screens and PC keyboards (AREV32) ====
=== At 03 MAY 2013 06:04:13PM Alvaro A Fernandez wrote: ===
 
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Does anyone in the forum have experience with touch screen interfaces (e.g. Android, Windows 8) and old-style applications, such as those written in Arev or RevG? 



For example, I got a Rev G app running in the cloud under 2x. As an experiment, I accessed it using  a Samsung smart phone (Samsung Glide). Worked pretty well with  the Android 2x connector... But, I realized that arrow keys, function keys, even the all-important Escape key were not readily available. Which I should have realized beforehand, but oh well. 



2x does of course provide soft versions of these in the touch screen if you go through some gyrations -  and some of the Glide's physical keyboard worked OK too. So it's possible to operate apps "unchanged" this way - and I guess I could always just add a USB keyboard if I had no other choice. But, I would prefer to be able to use a soft keyboard, and I found the soft keyboard 2x created to be cumbersome. 



Does anyone in the forum have any experience with 3rd party soft keyboards like this? I expect this'll be a bigger issue as more and more users attempt to access apps that used to run  on desktops only using mobile devices. Are there other approaches to use?



 
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