JavaScript virtual on-screen keyboard for digital signage kiosk touchscreens

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• Quick Tutorial →
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Features

• Fully customizable layouts and layers
• Fully customizable buttons actions
• Fully customizable buttons icons (Unicode, SVG)
• Themes: default, flat, glass. In light and dark mode
• Language presets (contribute to the project!)
• Shift + Caps-Lock
• Close Kioboard button
• Toggle or set initial visibility
• Drag/move Kioboard handler
• Different layouts per input groups
• Long key press - repeat input

Usage

Install package

npm i @rbuljan/kioboard

Import and instantiate

import "@rbuljan/kioboard/dist/kioboard.css";
import en from "@rbuljan/kioboard/dist/layouts/en.js";
import Kioboard from "@rbuljan/kioboard";

const kio = new Kioboard({
    layout: en,
    theme: "default-dark",
});

HTML

<input data-kioboard name="example">

Options

Customization options example:

const kio = new Kioboard({
    parent: "body", // selector|Element
    inputs: "[data-kioboard]", // selector|Element|Element[]|NodeList
    input: null, // The curently active input Element
    theme: "default", // "default|flat|glass"-"light|dark"
    layout: {}, // Layout Object, or import en|de|es|fr|hr|it // Contribute for more!
    layerName: "default", // Initial layer
    shiftState: 0, // 0=off 1=on 2=capsLock // Necessary if showing the "shift" layer
    isEnterSubmit: true, // submit form (<input> only)
    isVisible: false, // Initial visibility
    isPermanent: false, // Always visible
    isScroll: true, // should input scrolIntoView()
    isOSK: false, // show also default OS's on-screen keyboard
    scrollOptions: { behavior: "smooth", block: "start", inline: "nearest" },
    onInit() { /*initialized*/ },
    onLoad() { /*layout loaded*/ },
    onBeforeShow() { /*before show*/ },
    onShow() { /*after show*/ },
    onBeforeHide() { /*before hide*/ },
    onHide() { /*after hide*/ },
    onKeyDown(keyName) { /*after key press*/ },
    onKeyUp(keyName) { /*after key release*/ },
});

Methods

Having a Kioboard instance (like i.e: kio), you can then use its methods

kio.load(layout, callback) // Load Layout object or .js layout file
kio.setLayout(layout) // Read layout data, attach keys actions, set default layer
kio.shift(state) // 0=off 1=on 2=caps-lock. Needed when using .show("shift") or .changeLayer("shift")
kio.show() // Show Kioboard
kio.show(layerName) // .changeLayer(layerName) and show Kioboard 
kio.hide() // Kide Kioboard
kio.setActions(actions) // Set key actions for current layout. See: .on()
kio.setStyle(CSSVars) // Sets CSS Vars from object
kio.on(keys, callback) // Attach action callbacks to keys
kio.off(keys, callback) // Detach action callbacks from keys
kio.emit(keys) // Emit programmatically registered keys actions
kio.sequence(keys, speed, callback) // => fn() to stop sequencer
kio.clearKioboard() // Clear children elements (rows and buttons)
kio.draw() // Draw rows and buttons
kio.changeLayer(layerName) // Draw a specific layout's layer
kio.setTheme(themeName) // Change theme
kio.hasSelection() // true if input has selection
kio.insert(value, from, to) // insert a value at caret position of from-to index
kio.drag() // Attaches drag listeners to Kioboard element until pointerup
kio.init() // Initialize element and event listeners
kio.destroy() // Destroy element and listeners

Find out more about each method (with examples!) in the API Docs

Feature requests / issues

Missing a feature? Have a suggestion? Found a bug?

GitHub: rokobuljan/kioboard/issues →

Licence

MIT

© 2024-present — Roko C. Buljan