VirtualKeyboard is an on-screen keyboard that offers point-and-click typing using pointing devices such as a head pointer, mouse, trackball, etc. This program is designed primarily for disabled person but it can be used also to teach the children to write, to prepare kiosk environments, etc.
To use VirtualKeyboard simply click on the keys on the on-screen keyboard, each keypress will be sent to the active or front-most application. As with a real keyboard, to get uppercase characters you click Shift first, or to type in all uppercase, click Lock. Similarly, the other qualifier keys work as expected, they even work outside of VirtualKeyboard.



There are two versions of VirtualKeyboard:

VirtualKeyboard is a shareware application and can be freely used for 14 days. After this trial period, if you wish to continue using it, you must register. The registration fee is $19.95 for new users. The update is free for users who have purchased version 2.4.x after 04/17/2005, while the owners of any previous versions are eligible to upgrade for $9.95.
VirtualKeyboard 3 is a universal binary application and natively supports Intel-based Macs. It run on Mac OS X 10.0 or higher (PowerPC-Macs) and Mac OS X 10.4 or higher (Intel-Macs)

VirtualKeyboard Classic Lite instead, has less functions but is free. It run on Mac OS 8 or higher.

VirtualKeyboard main features:

• Fully functional on-screen keyboard floating above other applications.
• Works with US and international keyboard layouts
• Offers four, fully resizable, keyboard models: extended, standard, reduced and small.
• Handles command-key combinations, modifier key-click combinations and auto-key repeat.
• Provides an option that makes the keyboard transparent (0-90%) when you move the cursor away.
• "Labels" feature: you can type text you use frequently (like a return address, letter head, signature, ecc.) into all Mac OS X applications simply select it from Label menu.
• Provides various visual and audio-feedback features including speaking what you type (the latter option is built-in for English).
• Self-minimizing keyboard: this feature automatically reduces the keyboard size if it is not used for a determined period of time.
• Open contextual menus when the left mouse button is hold pressed.

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What's new in this version:
• Universal Binary.
• Autoclick feature: an user can write just by letting the mouse hover a key for more than 1 second.
• Multiclick feature: if an user holds the mouse button down on a key, it repeats.
• Improved interface: now includes a Toolbar with the buttons Label, Cut, Copy, Select All, Paste, Preferences, Minimize.
• Now the minimized keyboard can become transparent.
• You can organize a set of labels in groups and select directly the group from the Labels menu.
• "Safe Mode" is a function that allows to disable some keys of the keyboard and also to lock the keyboard on the screen. This characteristic can be useful to prepare kiosk environments, to use touch screen, etc.