How to include the on-screen keyboard into your own installer
1. A set of files to copy to end-user computers
- hvk.exe
- hvkcm.exe
- hvkcm64.exe
- hvkh.dll
- hvkh64.dll
- COptions.exe
- Keyboards - the folder containing on-screen keyboards (one text file per keyboard)
- Lang - the folder with the application's interface translated into different languages
- Skins - the folder with skin images
- Background - (optional) the folder containing images for the keyboard background
- Icons - (optional) the folder containing shortcut icons for different applications
- Sound - (optional) the folder containing sound files
- hvkDeskBand.dll, hvkDeskBand64.dll - (optional) the DLL files for displaying the application's toolbar in the taskbar
- Common - (optional) the folder containing predefined data on word frequency and word order for the most popular languages
- *.dic - dictionaries for the text suggestions. The folder for storing these dictionaries is specified in the Data directory field in the Dictionaries section of the application's settings. If you prefer, you can move dictionary files to the application installation folder.
2. The keyboard on the logon screen
If you turned on the displaying of the on-screen keyboard before the system login:
- Backup.ini - the pre-login settings file for the on-screen keyboard (in the Data subfolder)
You also need to copy the following four files to the Windows\system32 system folder:
- runcosk.exe
- CsCredentialLogon.dll
- CsCredentialLogon64.dll
- cskeyboardlogon.dll
3. Restore keyboard shortcuts
If you have configured special shortcuts, you also need to copy the file for them to the same folder as on the source computer. You can find the full path and filename in the Keyboard Shortcuts Settings window title.
4. Restore settings
To transfer the application's settings, do the following:Save the settings to a file. To do that, click the Save to File... button in the Advanced section of the Settings window.
After copying the INI-file to the end user's computer, start hvk.exe with the /RESTORE parameter.
Command format: hvk.exe /RESTORE "file name"
Example: hvk.exe /RESTORE "C:\Program Files\Hot Virtual Keyboard\Settings.ini"