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<concept id="GUID-57B7DA8C-A62F-4C65-B754-47D9F5E76416" xml:lang="en"><title>Text
input</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<p>There are several finger-optimized text input methods available for touch-enabled
devices. The available methods depend on the orientation of the device. The
following methods are available in the portrait orientation:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Virtual ITU-T keyboard with text prediction</p></li>
<li><p>Handwriting recognition (HWR) for some language variants. Not available
for Latin languages.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The following methods are available in the landscape orientation:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Virtual QWERTY opened in full screen with input preview</p></li>
<li><p>Handwriting recognition</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The input methods that are available to mobile device users depend on the
product. Users can select the suitable input method for each situation from
the input methods that are included in the product. The device recalls the
last used method and offers it the next time when the user wants to input
something.</p>
<fig id="GUID-0A84FE47-C9D6-48AF-A4A5-F643342733F9">
<title>Virtual ITU-T keypad</title>
<image href="GUID-F7A17E65-CB2D-41D3-9404-1A7D7F55FABC_d0e103779_href.png" placement="inline"/>
</fig>
<fig id="GUID-A294F7A7-79E4-41E3-8456-9554FA23A3B4">
<title>Virtual QWERTY keyboard</title>
<image href="GUID-47AA7F26-FF3F-4FEE-BBB4-F4E8A8E0E335_d0e103787_href.png" placement="inline"/>
</fig>
<p>The virtual QWERTY keyboard displays a keyboard that has a collection of
basic keyboard functions (Shift, Caps lock, punctuation marks, and so on)
and a text field where the user can see the given input without having to
follow it from the editor field. The handwriting recognition allows user to
write characters on the screen with a finger.</p>
<p>If touch input has been launched from an editor, pressing any hardware
character key closes the touch input. This also applies to hybrid devices
having both a hardware and virtual keyboard. Activating the hardware keyboard
character key closes the virtual keyboard. Touch input never starts up automatically
(that is, a change of view does not launch it), but the user has to launch
it by tapping the editing field. Moving the focus onto an editing field with
the hardware keys does not launch touch input.</p>
<section id="GUID-122BA229-0C5D-47C7-ABDE-4C6279B79FFD"><title>Using
touch-based text input in C++ applications</title><p>AVKON editor components
support touch-based text input.</p><p>The API to use for providing touch-based
text input is the <xref format="html" href="specs/guides/Editors_API_Specification/Editors_API_Specification.html" scope="peer">Editors API</xref>. For implementation information, see <xref format="html" href="specs/guides/Editors_API_Specification/Editors_API_Specification.html#Editors_API_Specification.topic3" scope="peer">Using the Editors API</xref>.</p></section>
</conbody></concept>