What is Build-A-Board?
My-T-Soft® Build-A-Board is a suite of utilities that provide tools to create and operate on-screen keyboards, panels, and buttons. These enhancements allow touchscreen, hand-held, wearable, wireless, ruggedized, tablet and pen-based computer users to operate these systems without the need for a physical keyboard. This results in space saving; reduced hardware costs; quick & low-cost user-training; cleaner machine interfaces; enabling legacy equipment retrofits; and realization of new & innovative approaches for computer users.
Build-A-Board is the evolving culmination of years of experience working with the needs of system providers & their use of IMG's successful My-T-Soft® family of on-screen keyboards. Developed to meet the needs of manufacturers, integrators, developers, and end-users of touchscreen & pen-based systems, it is the Ultimate Tool for anyone with a need for virtual on-screen keyboards & keypads.
Does Build-A-Board work with My-T-Soft/My-T-Touch/My-T-Pen?
No. Build-A-Board currently ONLY works with MYTSOFT.EXE versions 2.00 or higher. Support for older versions is anticipated, but it is not available in any current release of Build-A-Board.
What is the difference between the Run-Time files and Build-A-Board?
The Run-Time files are used on the Target system, which is often different than the development system. For example, if you are developing several keyboard layouts for a Windows CE unit with a MIPS processor, your Run-Time files target would be Windows CE - MIPS. The Run-Time files are licensed separately from Build-A-Board (since they may be placed on 1 or 100 or 10,000 systems). The Build-A-Board Builder (development environment for the keyboard layouts) is the tool used to create, modify, and manage keyboard layout files & select different Run-Time targets.
What operating system do I need?
To operate Build-A-Board: Windows 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP.
For Run-Time Files: Windows CE and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP.
What about Linux, or Palm-OS??
The current release does not yet support these targets, but these (and other) targets will be available.