yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] angelos_cy:
I have something to suggest. There should be an additional column at the left of the board-switch-buttons' column. This column should "work" similarly to board-switch-buttons, but it should be used for functioning buttons.

E.g. one could select to have one or more buttons on that column, that would have backspace, space, enter, cursor functions etc. The text appeared on those buttons would be set in the same way, as in board-switch-buttons, e.g. we could have "bsp" for backspace, "spc" for space and so on. That would solve the problem of boxes appearing on buttons, as well.

I hope you understand what I mean.

Thanks for your great software!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] superbubin:
4 columns to 3?

Hello!

Do you have an updated version for WM5? How can i change my 4 collumn alpahanumeric keypad to 3 columns just like a nokia interface. please help.

louie
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] deyan:
Any news?? What happened to the Blimkeys Project?!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jambaj0e:
I am really looking forward to T9 Blimkey, too
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jambaj0e:
Anyone still working on the T9 Blimkey? This is the easiest one-handed input and the only thing missing is the T9. Skinnable keyboard would be awesome, too ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jambaj0e:
Can someone take over this project? This SIP is way too good to let it go without updates =(

T9, skinnable keyboard, etc.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] laanbroek:
Major bug in Blimkeys

I am sorry to say, but there is a major bug in Blimkeys 1.1.0.1 (which is the last version I believe).

This bug disqualifies Blimkeys as a replacement for standard SIP and hardware keyboard, especially in programs that preprocess WM_KEYDOWN messages (for doing something special on certain key strokes).

Description of the bug:

Each keystroke generates 3 windows messages as it should:

WM_KEYDOWN, WM_CHAR and WM_KEYUP.

Like the standard SIP, like the hardware keyboard.

BUT with Blimkeys the WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP contain 0 as key code (the wParam) instead of the proper value.

The WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP should contain the same key code (wParam) as the WM_CHAR. Like for the standard SIP and hardware keyboard.

This bug, added to the fact that Blimkeys does not offer the option to display a picture for non-printable characters (leading to a little square when using for example backspace or tab character), well... bye bye Blimkeys.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cybertech:
Anyone know how to get Word Completion (predictive text) to work

in WM6 device. My previous HP ipaq running WM5 work perfectly,

however my HTC Touch with WM6 don't seems to work. Other

input SIP work well after entering the 3rd word it will show me

a list of word(s) to select but not Blimkeys.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] qwazix:
i tried to make a qwerty keyboard out of blimkeys

i tried to make a qwerty keyboard out of blimkeys

(i know it's not intended to be that way) but i need something like the standard keyboard in greek, with gestures, and large buttons (no space bsp etc.) It seems to work but with one drawback, when I set columns to be more than 8 I get the first letters of a row to appear in the previous row instead of the last letters of that (the previous) row. Maybe the variable of the rows is just 1 byte.

If this is easy to solve I would be grateful!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jambaj0e:
Can someone make a 3x4 grid with the letters in the following manner:

ab cd ef gh

ij kl mn opq

rs tu vw xyz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jambaj0e:
I made a new text panel that should allow even faster typing. Most vowels only require one tap and most consonants only require 2 taps.

Right now, the keyboard height is at 100. Let me know if that is too small. I can increase it to either 110 or 120.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cybertech:
Anyone know of registry editing to allow above SIP to have

Word Completion feature to work in WM6?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mohit_kripalu:
its work my Htc touch
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rnzk8:
it would be great if there would be any update to this great software! iv been using it since my xda2 days...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rusina:
i like blimkeys

i like the fact that it incorporates the use of gestures for backspace, spacebar, enter key and the hyphen/minus sign--is that the maximum number that can be programmed in? just wanted to say thanks and keep up the good work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rnzk8:
i believe the reason why the blimkeys do not load upon selecting it in the input panel is because your ppc has already low memory due to the today plugins you have loaded... this is not actually a bug but more of lack of resources of your pocketpc... and if you want the blimkeys to be the standard/default input of your pocketpc every softreset, there are a lot of programs to do that...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rnzk8:
just a question though...

how can i make this work on a vga screen?

it only has settings for the board height...

how about the board width?

is there a registry edit for this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hendrixus:
maybe with this
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sviggos:
Greek Blim Keys

Hi everyone and especially to Sallala as with this gift that i have found from you is the one that i have been looking for so long. Congratulations!!

So, in order to help and other Greek readers, i have made two Greek files. They both have 2 extra buttons, the one at the upper left corner which is assigned with the SPACE (one tap) and BACKSPACE (2 taps) function, and the other at the lower right corner which is assigned with the ENTER (one tap) button. The difference between the two files is that the first has only Greek Letters and the Second has Greek and English letters. Of course the rest remain the same ie. the number and the wild characters (i have also added the minus sign to the button with the plus, equal, miltiply signs). Finnaly, i would post also a Nokia Greek_english file for the ones that they have used to that layout. If anyone else like another layout, especially with Greek Letters, i am here to help. Sallala you are the Best.

I FORGOT TO MENTION!! My device is a MIO A701 and works FINE!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bishopau:
I like the sound of this SIP.

I love my standard mobile phone T9 input but find PhonePad to be too real estate restrictive.

This one looks fantastic - gestures to save on space!

Here's hoping someone picks this bad boy up
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] voydac:
Diffirent aproach

Blimkeys are the best input method I found - fast, small and without memory eating fireworks.

I love it!

I love it much more if I have qwerty-like letters configuration (for few years i don't use phone's but qwerty keyboard every day).

Because I can't find anything like that, I make my own. Two versions:

1) qwerty

2) qwerty + national polish characters
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] menshen:
word completion feature for Blimkeys in WM6

I tried to solve it modifying some registry entries (like HKCU\ControlPanel\Sip\SuggWords), but no results...

Is there a problem with blimkeys.dll in WM6?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Michaelr219:
This is perfect

the only suggestion that i have is 2 things...

sound or vibrate to the touch option...

maybe have someone design cleaner buttons...

other than that, its simple... fast and easy =)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] menshen:
For cleaner button, you only have to put key=0008 (back space) in blimkeys.txt (skin file)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Michaelr219:
no i mean... like, actually design a skin with glossy buttons... and glowing numbers... im sure this will take away from how light weight it is... but, a little flare would be worth it...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mugglesquop:
nice app, i agree with Michaelr219, it needs prettier keys :p other than that, very good!

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gduriez:
Hey, very good SIP, but ...

How do I configure a landscape mode ? I don't find

It should be very useful to use the hole 320 pixel of my screen

Thanks ???
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ..k..l..m..n..:
Does anybody know what happened with the 'Blimkeys' project? It seems it is not developed anymore... It's a shame as Blimkeys is one of the best SIP I've ever used...

PS. Hopefuly everything is ok with its author (?)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hendrixus:
Too much replacements
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] eleazar123:
If you mean other programs that do the same thing, please share some of the names. I have been looking for a program like this for a while! :)

EDIT: after reading more about the program, it is not what I'm looking for. I am looking for a program that looks just like this, but would use T9 predictive text input. Does anyone know of an application that can do this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hendrixus:
Ever heard of the search option?

I came up with this

Think about it next time!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ..k..l..m..n..:
Hmm... yes and no.

If you are looking for a keyboard with user-customizable layout and additionally with gestures recognition for space, backspace etc. there is AFAIK only Blimkeys, o yeah, and recently released Vito ZoomBoard 2.0.

Of course, there is still incredible PCM Keyboard, however, author do not plan to apply gestures recognition.

I have tested many SIPs and did not find any which would combine features of Blimkeys - of course I do not say that this is the best SIP in the world, but IMHO it pretends to be at least still improved due to its unique functionality.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rex4u:
Does it work with WM 6 ?

I would just love to have it on my device.

Thanks...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ..k..l..m..n..:
Yes, it works on WM6 :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dajj:
Hi brother,

Is CUT & PAST Work in Blimkeys Keybord? How?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ..k..l..m..n..:
No, there are no such functions in Blimkeys - you can only enter characters and use gestures to enter space, enter, backspace and "-".

The operations you mention you can find for example in: PocketCM Keyboard*(recently v0.14 has been released) or TouchPal.

*Starting from v0.14 of PocketCM Keyboard there is also gestures recognition function implemented (space and backspace only).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dajj:
..k..l..m..n..

Thanks alot....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rex4u:
Thanks for the app bro'

But it is very slow on WM 6.

Thanks anyways and an excellent concept.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dajj:
Hi brothers:

can I reduce delay time?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ..k..l..m..n..:
dajj, no, I am afraid it is not possible. It is one of many improvements which sala could implement, but unfortunatelly he gave up this excellent project...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Vukile:
The project is pure genius. The PDA community needs him now more than ever.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ridr:
This SIP is amazing! I love having phone-like input method that doesn't take up the whole screen! Genious!

Now if only someone out there could take over the Blimkeys project and add t9 functionality. Is Sallala still around?

This could be the best SIP if it was updated as planned. I would pay for it once it has updated functionality! Anyone else feel the same?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hendrixus:
Alternative is TapTapSMS ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] moshinho:
Testing...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] giboks20:
Another great application (but not freeware) is FingerTouch.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sallala:
> For the cursors is it possible to use the 5 way HW pad? It could be the best solution.

- I don't like the Wallabys HWpad. But, I will implement it, it is a good idea.

> For backspace it could be that you have to press any button for 1 second.

- I think it will too slow

I made the modifications, before read your posts. At this time, space is left->right, backspace is right->left and enter is top->down strokes. I think the space is good, the enter is usuable, but the backspace is not always good for me. Let's try it!

>I think also that you can make two more buttons on the right (where now you have three buttons that doesn't work).

- Buttons will work ;-)

> In this manner you can make the last position (for example the first button abc1) for the numbers.

- It is good, but I like to make an only numbers layout. (like the all caps now) For example note up a telephone number is not comfortable in your method.

>The last two buttons should have also spacebar and other 5 or 6 characters (for example !@? ecc. or what we need most).

- ok test the actual version, and we will thinking it.

> It could be better if you implement a sound ("bip") or something like this when you tap.

- Ok, thats ok. It's your taste. I don't like keyboard clicks, but somebody like it. Maybe need a visual feedback too. (Displaying a big letter what will the keyboard send to the editbox)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sallala:
New verison out! 1.0.0.1

There is a new version!

I changed the zip file above!

How to update:

Note that the dll name is changed from dvoraksip.dll to blimkeys.dll.

- copy blimkeys.dll to your device's windows directory

- Start regsvr_arm.exe on your device

- unregister windows/dvoraksip.dl

- register blimkeys.dll

- try to delete windows/dvoraksip.dll. If you can't, you must to softreset your pda and try again..

Changelog:

- space, backspace, enter keys added. (I explained how it works)

Lets try it! I can finetune it. Which is the minimum width to stroke to receive a space or backspace

- Uppercase letters added. If you click the "Abc" key on the right once, you can write one capital letter. If you click it twice, change to AllCaps.

- Visual feedback for the delay time added. While the key is orange, you can roll the key's character. (There is a bug, you can't roll the letters in a circle. I will fix it)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nya2003uk:
I tried to load this and got the following error message

Canot load “\”

GetLastError returned 126. The specified module could not be found.

I downloaded the following files

regsvr_arm.exe & blimkeys.dll

I coped the regsvr_arm.exe into my documents on my PDA (XDA II) and blimkeys.dll file into the WINDOWS directory in my PDA.

Then I went into my document and clicked on regsvr_arm.exe and got the above error.

I could find the dvoraksip.dll file you refer to in you installation notes.

Can you help me pls. I am keen try out this product …

If there are any other notes you can provide where I went wrong I would appreciate this.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nya2003uk:
I tried to load this and got the following error message

Canot load “\”

GetLastError returned 126. The specified module could not be found.

I downloaded the following files

regsvr_arm.exe & blimkeys.dll

I copied the regsvr_arm.exe into my documents on my PDA (XDA II) and blimkeys.dll file into the WINDOWS directory in my PDA.

Then I went into my document and clicked on regsvr_arm.exe and got the above error.

I could not find the dvoraksip.dll file you refer to in you installation notes.

Can you help me pls. I am keen try out this product …

If there are any other notes you can provide where I went wrong I would appreciate this.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sallala:
I don't know, why are you receive this error. The regsvr_arm.exe application made by another programmer, at PockepcDN

http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/regsvr.html

Did you try to restart your device? If it's not help, I will upload another registering program.

Don't search for dvoraksip.dll. I changed the name to blimkeys.dll.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sallala:
Nya2003uk !

I uploaded another registering program. Try with this!

Use it:

- copy blimkeys.dll to your pda's windows directory

- copy regsvrce.exe to your pda's home directory

- start regsvrce.exe and in the dialog, type: /windows/blimkeys.dll

- some seconds after it says the results
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nya2003uk:
Thanks for ur quick reply

Ok I done exactly what you have said I’ve made some progress.. however still not working.

This is what I did

Use it:

- copy blimkeys.dll to your pda's windows directory

- copy regsvrce.exe to your pda's home directory

- start regsvrce.exe and in the dialog, type: /windows/blimkeys.dll

It comes with Regsvr_arm then OK … I click on OK and nothing happens….
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nya2003uk:
by the way YES i did restart my XDA...still same result .. any other suggestions pls ???? :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sallala:
nya2003uk:

I am sorry, I don't know, what is the problem.

This dll is a COM object, but thats all, what I know from it. I am a newbe to eVC++ :-S I made it form a sample application. I don't know what does the registering function. It make registry keys, and something else.

I changed the dll name. It means, I renamed some lines in the sourcecode too. Maybe something is wrong with it, and peepole who not installed dvoraksip.dll earlyer, can't install blimkeys.dll ?? It is only a conjecture.

->I haven't got the old dll, but I can hardreset my Wallaby, and try to install blimkeys.dll

->Let's wait for others! If they have an error too, the error is in my program :-)

->Check registry values! (Use PHM registry editor!)

This is my registry, where are the Blimkeys data:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{42429695-AE04-11D0-A4F8-00AA00A749B9}]

@="Blimkeys"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{42429695-AE04-11D0-A4F8-00AA00A749B9}\DefaultIcon]

@="\\windows\\blimkeys.dll,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{42429695-AE04-11D0-A4F8-00AA00A749B9}\IsSIPInputMethod]

@="1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{42429695-AE04-11D0-A4F8-00AA00A749B9}\InprocServer32]

@="\\windows\\blimkeys.dll"

@ means, "Default"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g3lo:
i got it to work on my xda2. but i think it will be better if it had a backspace button and a spacebar function.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sallala:
Ok, I searched the net, what does it mean registering a COM module.

The only thing to do regsvr_arm.exe: call my prorgam's registering function. It means, that my program try to create the regitry values above.

Maybe regsvr_arm.exe don't neccessary, if you create the registry keys by hand. Lets check, that the keys are correct! Maybe another application contain that ID?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sallala:
Everybody:

Maybe you watch this topic only to receive information about new verisons of the program. If you don't want to read about debugging for example now with nya2003uk, send me an email, and I will advise you if new verisons avaible. In this case, you can switch off watch this topic..

Gabor
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boybi:
i didn't install the dvoraksip.dll. i used the blimkey.dll and it worked on my XDA2 and in my friend's XDA2 also.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Urosh:
Sallala

I've tried the new version and I think you are going in the right way.

Go on. Eccelent work!!!

Urosh
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sallala:
New version!

I uploaded a new version 1.0.1.1!

Download at the first post in the topic.

New features:

Numeric keyboard added. Press the "123" key once to write a number, or press twice, to write more numbers.

You can write minus sign "-" when you take a big left->right stroke.

Options page added, but at this time, there is no functionality

Numeric key layout contain one more column. Maybe it still easy to find keys.

I waiting suggestion to the order of signs. Take are on one tab and select are like letters or take are on different tabs? Maybe the best method, that the usually used signs on a tab, and others on another tabs but on rolling keys.

I mean:

1. sign tab:

+ | " | @ | ! | ,

: | = | / | ? | .

2. sign tab:

\| |~*%#| $€ | [] | ()

{} |http://| cut |copy|paste

Or make it with four column like tha abc letters? Make more tabs? Note, that each more tabs adding, uses an ~20Kb more disk space because the bitmap.

The layout above is good? Note, that you must click the signs key right, before you can select the sign. So signs on the right you can reach quickly. That I place . , ! ? to the right.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nya2003uk:
Hi,

off I would like to thank you for your patience in helping me.

Ok, I tried the latest regsvrce and managed to register the blimkeys.dll file. Can you please tell me how to I start the application?

Regards
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nya2003uk:
OK I have it working now, i like the product very much.

Few points which I could not work out

1)	How do you type numbers ?

2)	I couldn’t use the space bar between characters

Thanks for your help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sallala:
You can register it without errors? What was wrong?

You can use the application by selecting "Blimkeys" from the input menu bottom-right of the screen. (There is a small black triangle next to the keyboard icon)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] crimeofpassion:
Hey sallala i really like ur program it works the best, better than other program which is in the forum and trys to charge a fee for it. I have used the previous version without numbers, just upgraded to the new one hope to see u make the final one with signs i think the most important signs are !@#$%^&*()_+=- if u could do the T9 thing would be the best

would be good if u can make the time between changing of letters on same key longer, i pressed rather slowly and sometimes before i can get the alphabet i wan it jumps to the next word
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boybi:
Sallala, i think including the minus "-" sign is not a great idea. its almost the same as a space bar, and most of the time, i get a minus sign instead of a space. just include the minus sign in the punctuation marks button. thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] carvas:
congratulations!

well first of all i must really congratulate you for this very nice job! i really loved it, and i'm using it daily to send my sms's.

i think the idea that was here left before to set the directional pad to set spaces and to backspaces is a good idea.

the directions could be used this way: Left->backspace; Right -> space; Up/Down -> go across the letters written (as the arrow keys in the PC keyboard).

another thing that it would be nice is when you start writing a sms when you write the name of the person that it could really search for the name in the contacts database (like in the other input modes).

Thanks for sharing this with us!

Regards!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] powerppc:
Great! I love it. Only thing from me using this program is missing the space and backspace. That's all I need, then I can use it all day long.

Thanks for the great apps.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] patoy:
uninstall

I followed ur instruction on how to uninstall but blimkeys is still in the input method selections. How do I completely remove it? Pls help. Thanx!