A capacitive touchpad integrated with key and handwriting functions is
provided for operation in key, handwriting and mouse modes. Several
regions are defined on the panel of the touchpad and have several
patterns printed thereon for the operation modes thereby. In the key
mode, the key patterns among the printed patterns simulate a keyboard. In
the handwriting mode, the handwriting region among the defined regions
serves to handwriting input. In the mouse mode, the defined regions
provide a cursor moving region and a horizontal and vertical scroll bars
for input operations.