@pascencio/nvue-touch-keyboard

vue-touch-keyboard

Virtual keyboard component for Vue.js v2.x. Designed to Raspberry Pi Touch Display

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Demo

JSFiddle demo Codepen demo

Features

• 3 built-in layouts, but you can create custom layouts
• no external dependencies
• full responsive
• customizable styles
• ...etc

Installation

NPM

You can install it via NPM.

$ npm install vue-touch-keyboard

Manual

Download zip package and unpack and add the vue-touch-keyboard.css and vue-touch-keyboard.js file to your project from dist folder.

https://github.com/icebob/vue-touch-keyboard/archive/master.zip

Usage

<template>
  <div>
    <input type="text" placeholder="Text input" @focus="show" data-layout="normal" />
    <vue-touch-keyboard :options="options" v-if="visible" :layout="layout" :cancel="hide" :accept="accept" :input="input" />
  </div>
</template>

<script>
  import VueTouchKeyboard from "vue-touch-keyboard";
  import style from "vue-touch-keyboard/dist/vue-touch-keyboard.css"; // load default style

  Vue.use(VueTouchKeyboard);

  export default {
    data: {
      visible: false,
      layout: "normal",
      input: null,
      options: {
        useKbEvents: false,
        preventClickEvent: false
      }
    },

    methods: {
        accept(text) {
          alert("Input text: " + text);
          this.hide();
        },

        show(e) {
          this.input = e.target;
          this.layout = e.target.dataset.layout;

          if (!this.visible)
            this.visible = true
        },

        hide() {
          this.visible = false;
        }
    }
  }
</script>

Properties

Property	Default	Accepted values	Description
input	required	HTMLInputElement	The target input HTML element
layout	required	String or Object	Layout of keys. If you are using the built-in layouts, you can set as the name of the layout. If you want to use custom layout, you need to set a layout Object.
accept	null	Function	Event handler. Fired when the "Accept/Close" button pressed.
cancel	null	Function	Event handler. Fired when the "Cancel" button pressed.
change	null	Function	Event handler. Fired when the input value changed.
next	null	Function	Event handler. Fired when the "Next" button pressed or the length of the value of the input reached the maxLength of the input
options	{}	Object	Functional options.
defaultKeySet	default	String	Default key set. You can choose a desired key set of your layout to be used when a keyboard is initialized.

Options

Option	Default	Accepted values	Description
useKbEvents	false	boolean	If true, the component will generate a keydown event and trigger it. If it returns with false, it won't insert the new character.
preventClickEvent	false	boolean	If true, the component will preventDefault the click event.

Built-in layouts

• normal - Normal full layout. Similar as real keyboard layouts
• numeric - Only for numbers
• compact - Compact layout. Similar as mobile phone keyboard layouts

Development

This command will start a webpack-dev-server with content of dev folder.

npm run dev

Build

This command will build a distributable version in the dist directory.

npm run build

Test

npm test

Contribution

Please send pull requests improving the usage and fixing bugs, improving documentation and providing better examples, or providing some testing, because these things are important.

License

vue-touch-keyboard is available under the MIT license.

Contact

Copyright (C) 2016 Icebob