graphical keyboard?

[legos]

Hi everyone, I am making my first attempts at VC++ programming, and I could use a bit of help. Here is what I am trying to make, it is something similar to a visual keyboard and I just need an example to get me started.
The user will press buttons in the GUI representing keys on a keyboard, each keypress will add the letter to a textbox. When the enter button on the GUI is pressed, the textbox clears and the line of text from the textbox is saved in a listbox that is above the textbox. If someone could show me how this can be implemented It would be very helpful.

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[stupidog]

This is easily done using either a dialog or formview. I'm basing this on VC++ 6.0, the sequence is a little different in .NET but you will end up with the same steps in a slightly different way.
Create a dialog application and start adding buttons (this is the hard part). Change the text on each button to a keyboard character. Right click each button and go to ClassWizard. Create a 'button clicked' function for each, they will look like OnButtonClickedA, etc.
Add an edit control to your dialog - give it a variable of type CString.
Add the listbox and give it a control variable such as 'm_list'.
Add a CString variable to the dialog class. For each button click, add the letter (or number) to your string. This will look like 'm_str += m_edit'.
When the enter button is pressed, use the list control AddString method to put the whole string into the listbox. This will look like 'm_list.AddString(m_str)'.
Now clear the edit window by setting the string to "".
Last use 'UpdateData(FALSE)' to update everything.
Hope this is clear enough to be of help.

 

[legos]

Thanks for your help, I actually just finished everything I was attempting to do today.
These are the two functions that control the text in the cursor and then the one in the listbox.
// enter text, click event
void newText_Click(Object^ sender, EventArgs^)
{
FormatEditField(((Button^)sender)->Text);
}
// helper to format the entry in the text box!
void FormatEditField(String^ ButtonText)
{
String^ strValue = textField->Text;

if (strValue->CompareTo(s_strZero) == 0)
strValue = ButtonText;
else
{
strValue = String::Concat(strValue, ButtonText);
}

textField->Text = strValue;
}
//display text line in listbox
void ReturnKey_Click(Object^ sender, EventArgs^)
{
String^ strValue = textField->Text;
if (strValue->Length != 0)
{
textScreen->Items->Add(strValue);
textField->Text = s_strZero;
}
}



Does anyone know of a way to make some of the fields in the listbox left justified, and other fields right justified?

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[legos]

oh, i forgot to add this link which helped me figure out how to add the text box info to the listbox

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/winforms/ListBoxDA001.asp

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