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<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>

<li><p>Handwriting recognition (HWR) for some language variants. Not available

for Latin languages.</p></li>

<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>

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<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>