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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Personally I like it. A suggestion however in order to include it as default in next version: add another layout and a shift key in the 3rd layout, containing:

€, £, accented letter (at least éèê) and anything that may be useful. The idea is to make the default usable for more culture.

Another suggestion, that I liked was the number no in the extreme left or right, easier for people that have screen with border (don't remember who posted it). Even if it's gonna be a little less necessary with the next version that allows to set margin around the keyboard.

And if you have suggestion, shoot, here or on pocketcm (or private if you prefer). As long as it doesn't look like some other message "this crap sucks whithout ..." :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ixtana_ran:
Some good ideas Mr_yellow. Was going to post my own layout but its that easy to change, that this thread would soon become overloaded.

Personally I've kept the numbers central but plan to have +=-* like yours, but have decided to have a smaller space bar in the letters to accommodate ,.' this was mentioned by some one else earlier in the thread.

Agree with other comments, more usability cosmetics later.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_yellow:
I understand the issue with keys close to the border of the screen.. Personally, with my phone, it isn't too much of a problem. I suppose anyone can move some of the math operators to the left side of the numpad. Just more food for thought.

Also, what is the syntax to add the "shift" key? is it just "\[layout#]"..

ie.

keyboard_layout_1=qwertyuiop\nasdfghjkl'\n\5zxcvbnm\B

will create a shift key that goes to keyboard layout 5?

Thanks,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
With me neither, but we're talking best default here, on the other side, I'd understand you don't care ;)

Yes it's that simple.

Also I've attached a little experimental tool that unload the currently loaded SIP and switch to default. It should allow you to test layout without soft-reset (launch the exe as if you wanted to soft-reset, except... it doesn't reset). Note that this is just a development tool, it may or may not works...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_yellow:
I found that I can test new layouts by editing them on my PC, then overwriting the settings.ini on the pocket pc, then, switching to keyboard and then back to pocketCM keyboard. when the pocketCM keyboard loads, it'll have the new layout.

Maybe it's cause my device is notorious for low memory (HTC Prophet) and the OS(wm6) is actually unloading the keyboard from memory vs. keeping it in memory when I switch to the regular keyboard. who knows...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Probably something like that. And maybe also because there is a memory leak in 0.2 ;)

Anyway, as long as it works for you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] petervbeck:
Black Skin

Hey, great work, but i like the black skin on your first post.

Is it possible for you to upload this skin ? That would be great,

looks very cool in black color...

Thanks in advance!

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] juiceppc:
Tene great work!

I have one option that seems a few of us would like. To be able to disable the auto word suggesting all together. The keyboard app itself is my favorite. Better than happy tappy and the other one(forget the name). But I personally don't need that big baloon popping up every time I type. I know what I'm typing I can see it plain as day. And I'm actually quite quick with it and would just prefer to fly along at my own pace. The baloon blocks a big chunk of the screen and I have a hard time telling what text box I'm typing in sometime.

Thanks. I mean just an option to enable/disable it would rock. This would be/is one of the best advancements in PPC history IMHO. What the hell took so long? Don't tell me that dang iPhone caused this...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
+1

...but for sure will be in 0.3 version as screenshot says
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] swerrie:
Is it possible to change the icon to the standard Keyboard icon?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] henftling:
Thank you ... again

Uh Man u did it again,

the est keyboard ever, and now in black and qwertz!

F*** have o donate again ;-)

Thanks man for letting us benefit from your expertise
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] emmeborn:
Swedish keyboard layout.

Hi,

I am having a bit of a struggle with creating a swedish keyboard layout. I just dont get it to display properly. Anyone who can help me?

It should look like this (This is the standard WM keyboard off course) :
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Entropyst:
No way to make it working under wm6 italian :|
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Anth:
hey tene.

I got some suggestions.

1. can the suggested words pop up after the 3rd characters we type in?

I faced a lil troble when typing 'I'. I used to tab 'I' then followed by space, and the software will shows "iI" as a result.

2. can u make the keyboard auto space once we selected the suggested word?

3. can u make the keyboard delete the last single word when we press and hold the "return" key for several time period (eg 2 seconds)?

4. I found a movement that will "crash" the keyboard. Try this,

- tab on a character and drag to the keyboard icon(center), then drag back to the keyboard area. PCM-k will closed and switched to default keyboard. Is this normal?

edited : words correction

Anth
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LlamaV3:
thank you for improving the best keyboard app available :D

my bugs are gone, and now with the layout I'm using it is perfect. I only want my white keyboard from 0.2 back. I know everyone loves the cool black but any way of getting the white back without skinning?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MrFreeze:
I have installed the program. Softreset - however, unfortunately, I cannot select it. Whenever I it try it is loaded the default Keyboard?!

Please help me
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Fracoon:
Did you have installed version 0.2 before? It was the same for me... I installed it over 0.2 Softreset and it was not selectable.... i installed it again and then it worked...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Not without skinning, however it should be really hard to make such skin.

If more people want it, white can become the default skin, or let say a little modifed white.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] MrFreeze:
Ok i have deinstalled the 0.3 Version and installed version 0.2 first!

WOW its worked!!! THX
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ha22y:
I got a question here. Not sure if anyone have this problem.

I tried to send sms and when I type the word in the "To:: the contact list will not appear until I type backspace.

Anyone know how to have the list appear as I type....just like the default keyboard?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
It's a bug in 0.3 (and previous). Will be fixed in next release.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nonpaq:
Tene,

version .3 displays incorrectly on VGA device. V.2 worked fine, but v.3 does not have the default black background color covering the full keyboard.

See attachment.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
VGA theme is being build
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dferreira:
Just like to say thanks for the most practical keyboard there is in WM :) I have one problem tho... I'm portuguese, so the english dictionary isn't any good for me writting SMS. Is there any way to disable the dictionary?? (maybe a feature on 0.3 version?)

Edit: Just noticed that you've included that on 0.3 :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
However it maybe useful to search for a portugese word list and use it.

It's just a simple text file containing words.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WEiSLaND:
Thanks for your developments.

F/R: It would be possible that the keyboard automatically put in capital letters the first letter of phrase?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LlamaV3:
well 'm a pretty decent photoshopper, I'll just modify existing skin, it's only colours
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_yellow:
Does anyone else notice that the suggestion box only appears in the upper left corner of screen and doesn't follow the cursor? My device is an HTC Prophet running WM6.

I apologize if this has been discussed already
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
In which application? I do my best to make it works, but that's the tricky part.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_yellow:
I've only been using it in notes to test... Lemme try word and other apps. I didn't realize it was app specific

EDIT: yep.. the suggestion box moves in calendar and word. and probably many other apps... I guess there's something screwy with how Notes handles the cursor position.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] delude:
Great! I'm looking forward to more colours :D

Is it possible that we can actually change the button layouts tene? Like if we wanted to make an xPhone layout.

Also, is it an easy thing to change the height of the keyboard? Is it something that you could possibly look into, so people could decide the height that they wanted.

This keyboard could truly be the absolute best 'application', due to all of the possible customizations.

Well done!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Have you read: http://pocketcm.com/phorum/read.php?14,1191 ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dormido:
Version .3b is crashing on me a lot at random times; it'll crash at anywhere between 5 and 10 times when I type "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The thing is, I can't replicate the conditions for the crash, but it's pretty annoying.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] juiceppc:
Sorry I just checked ver3 and the big dict bubble has now shrunk to a less cumbersome little text box in the upper left hand corner. I like the black keyboard also.

But just to be a nit picker how about an option to disable the whole dictionary lookup thing altogether. Just an option to toggle it. Not get rid of it. That might make it quicker and more stable. Not that it's slow or unstable.

Great APP!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] petervbeck:
Great !

Yeah, v0.3 looks great, i like it very much and until now everything works very fine on my artemis. Great work, thank you very much !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bellfazar:
Did you ever mention how skin development is set up? Will you be using a theme.cmt style setup or will it be something else? Can we set up new skins right now or do we have to wait for a few version?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] boyfriendinacoma:
is there a way to get the old skin back?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LordDeath:
is there any german layout for v0.3b available?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ha22y:
That's will be GREAT!!! :D I shall await for your next release. Thanks!

I think the word suggestion algo is very impressive ;) Great Work!!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Sian:
Hi Tene

Any possibility of you looking into the issue of Phonepad not able to start after I switch to PCM Keyboard? I can't switch back to Phonepad. It'll go to standard keyboard after that.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] zard:
Version 0.3b:

Nice, looking better after every new version. Not sure if you are working on the following:

1. copy and paste function

2. '_',

'%',

'<' - key where you move backwards but doesn't delete the characters'

3. How can I get a permanent cap instead of pressing shift key for each and every character that I want to type as caps?

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ha22y:
Hope this is not a stupid question here.

How do I type "$"??? Can't seem to find it :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ha22y:
Just realised I can change the keyboard layout to have this key.

Wonder is there a better way :)

Growing to like this app...more and more. *Cool*
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marisa4755:
I have uploaded a modified keyboard layout which includes € _ $ £ and * and you can find it:

http://pocketcm.com/phorum/read.php?14,1466
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marisa4755:
Yes please, I have a bit of a vision problem and although I love the black version, for me the white was much easier to see. If you could make this available I would be very grateful. I will have a go at making a skin but have never done anything like this before so it won't be quick, that's for sure!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sleonard:
I personally like the new black version. Goes with my Black X ROM from JJ :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] hitreg:
Hi, great work. is a good idea to add "gesture" like original wm keyboard :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dennis_91:
sorry!!! how to change the dictionary?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] marisa4755:
just rename it to dict.txt and it will replace the dic.txt currently the default, then soft reset and it should use your new dictionary.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sirgawain123:
WM5 word prediction finally showing on my WM5 ARtemis with PCMKb 0.3b.

Wow! finally i got best of both worlds: prediction(WM5) and correction(PCM kb)

Thanks, Tene

Now googling to find info on how to edit MS built in dictionary! (Not as easy as a txt file)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] LlamaV3:
I'm sorry I still don't understand the info on http://pocketcm.com/phorum/read.php?14,1191

tene, can you include a zip with the images and settings used for the default skin so I have something to work from? where do we place the png files, do the settings accept subfolder paths, and what image sizes are used?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
yes please, I want that too...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cerede2000:
How to desactivate autocompletation?

Thank you :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SharkInDark:
Hi Tene!

I have some troubles with customising your GREAT keyboard.

I change "key_row_count=5" and update keyboard layouts.

In the bottom row the skin dont work.

When i extract the default skin images from your keyboard, modify

"keyboard.png" and "keyboard_pressed.png", put it to program folder and add to "settings.ini" strings

"keyboard_image=keyboard.png" and "keyboard_pressed_image=keyboard_pressed.png"

But this does not work too.

Where is my mistake?

Sorry for bad english.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr_yellow:
This is not an issue with PCMKeyboard. It's an issue with not enough memory/ram on the device.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bravo261:
can you clarify that some more, or offer a resolution? i'm in the same boat and there's plenty of memory from all angles, in storage and programs. at this point, i can't get either one to appear, even after uninstalling this one and trying to reinstall either/or in various combos.

this was with the .02 and this version as well. anyone?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Try removing dict.txt and tell me if it works.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
There are some known issue, I'm working on it, and also providing some VGA skins. You'll have to wait for an update. Drop me a mail if you have a current skin that you want me to test. (support@pocketcm.om)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] EazyVG:
GREAT application - better than HappyTapping for sure.

Looking forward for this app to mature even more with integration of WM6 prediction and PocketCM Keyboard correction, and if possible to have support for second layout = Russian.

Tnx a lot.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nesty24:
unknown file

What's with the RemoveIM or UnloadIM for?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nesty24:
a bug

I think this is another bug.

type "miss", then space, then press erase until the word becomes letter "m" only, press the missing letter to create the word "miss" again. If you will notice, the suggestion box suggests only the word that starts the letter "i".
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ksjulsen:
hey great app, the best sip for wm5 ever. but i am noticing 1 thing in particular, pocketcm keyboard lags a little bit when i have wisbar advance running, and when i exit wisbar advance the keyboard is performing at normal speed with no lag at all. wondering if there is a way to fix this.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dckiwi:
Refreshes the SIP w/out having to soft-reset.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Actually, it force windows to unload the pcmkeyboard.dll from memory.

By default, when you switch to another keyboard, the dll isn't unloaded, the idea is that if you have two SIP, let say A and B, you use A most of the time, and B for symbol, you can switch from A to B then A, without having to pay the price of dll loading/unloading.

The use of the tools is therefore only for development purpose. It can also help skinner because this way they can update the skin, unload the dll, reselect PCM Keyboard, and their skin will be used.

In short: it's not useful for 99% percent of users.

Note however that this tools isn't linked to PCM Keyboard, it just unload all the SIP and select the default keyboard as the current SIP.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
It's not really a bug, the SIP is intented to work this way, for 3 reasons:

- when you autcomplete a word, most of the time, it's because you agree with the word.

- it allow you to complete word and compose word (useful for url for instance, type pocket, autocorrect, two backspace, add cm.com you're fine).

- there is no built-in way to know the current text being typed in windows mobile, SIP are mostly one way: tell the app that this key is pressed. I'm trying to do my best to interract with the app (improved in next version, suggestion positionnign will work better), but that's not easy, and not an exact science. For this, unless I learn a solution that works 100% of the time, I prefered to chosse a coherent behavior across all app, instead of "sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't".
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SharkInDark:
The skin is redrawed version of your default skin. I just resize the background image and add one line to pressed image.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] b.mann:
I agree, but a small problem that I noticed: is there no underscore?

If there is, I blame how late it is. Keep up the awesome work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chymmylt:
There seems to be a bug when opening when initially selecting it in landscape mode - the layout is all screwed up and fuzzy which remains when switching back to Portrait. The only way to set it straight is to select another SIP and then going back when in Portait. Incidentally if started in portrait then switching to landscape, it displays properly (though might be better if it could perhaps fill the bottom of the screen?). I realise that generally on the TyTN I usually use the physical keyboard when in landscape but sometimes the phone is in the speaker phone holder in the car (where I keep the phone in landscape - I like TomTom better in Landscape) and I need to type something in so a fix for this would be great! :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SayMobile:
This is a great SIP! Thank you for contibuting this to the community.

The only feature request I have, and one that I think will enhance this product significantly, is to add gestures or strokes for space and backspace and perhaps, an upward stroke from a key to capitalize. That's a good feature in the default WM keyboard.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ha22y:
Hi all

I faced a lil troble when typing 'I'. I used to tab 'I' then followed by space, and the software will shows "iI" as a result.

I have combed thru this thread but cannot find any answer/solution.

please can someone direct me? or will this be a fix in the next release?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Go to your SIP settings, and disable auto-correct.

This only happen on english device, and I don't know why.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ha22y:
Hmm...it works after I disable auto-correct. THANKS!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cruzzmz:
hi

i am typing with combinations of short txt, malay words & english word and it is quite annoying sometimes ... so how do i disable the suggestion word?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] human75:
is there any problem with latest cab version?

cant install latest cab version.i am getting this error message"installation of pcm keyboard was unsuccessful".i could install old version.any comment?i am running on wrCX 1 wm6 rom...thanks for help...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] godzillaman:
Hi. First I would like to say that from my point of view you have been doing a GREAT job with the app you made. I personally think PocketCM a must app.I tried this new app, but I found a big NO! I'm portuguese an I built a dictionary of my own, with portuguese words, but tyour software makes me use english words by means of force. Could you make this small "bug" be a opcional in your next release. I would be very thankfull and woul be an honor to test this app for my fellow portuguese friends with PPc Phone edition.

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] godzillaman:
Hi! How do you desable auto-correct? :confused:

Sorry if it's too obvious and I didn't see it, but I tried to find it. Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Install an portugese dictionary?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] nesty24:
yes, I understand that.

The point is, the correct word for the user isn't correct with the word that the application suggests. Of course, you have to press the suggestion to re-input what you've type. a very frustrating thing to do for almost all of the word of the message your creating. As much I am concern with the app, we fasten the creation of the message by typing and helping the user to do it. if the focus of your eyes was on the keyboard bcoz your typing fast, and you are pretty sure of the letters your typing, you haven't noticed that the app was changing your words. The app became unreliable.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
If you have a bad dictionary, that's probably the case ;)

Anyway, 0.4 is up, with option dialog, and ability to disable auto-correction and/or suggestion (that shouldn't be useful, but hey... you decide;))
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] petervbeck:
0.4 rocks !

Yeah, 0.4 looks great! Great with different skins and language-selection.

Thank you very much :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] AJerman:
Thanks for the new version. Installing it now!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] raxor:
Thanks for 0.4, works fine on HTC Artemis ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Ixtana_ran:
New Version

Looking good, why can't everything be this easy. Even made a Personal layout. Will get some coin off to paypal then it's coming your way.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] heikow:
Id would be realy great if you also have option for the swedish language.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Keyboard layout are only text file (copy a layout file to your desktop, open it with notepad, edit).

For more information: http://pocketcm.com/phorum/read.php?14,772,772#msg-772

If you happen to create or enhance any layout, please share them (make a thread on pocketcm.com forum for instance). So we can get decent layout for more language.