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[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
just an update for you folks..release of my v2 will be postponed a bit..i just had this great idea to expand the usability of this keyboard. I am working on it now and hopefully will have it done tomorrow.

This will be a feature that is not available for any of the finger keyboard releases until now :D :D stay tuned
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Zurichhb:
Hi,

I've install the VGA v2.0 on my HTC Touch cruise, and each time I open sms or any program that requires a keyboard, I get an resolution error, I've installed for vga. does this not work with Polaris??? Thx
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
correct me if i am wrong but isnt the polaris qvga?

i could modify my skin for qvga but that would have to wait a bit
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
im waiting.........lol
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Repetitor:
Great work. Finaly long awaited 2.0 version is here. Now for the request part, does anyone know how to make a version with danish and serbian/croatian layout. I only use those 2 languages when writeing on my phone, so unfortunately english and polish aren't very usable for me... I would edit skin files my self, but as I can se, serbian/croatian has too many letters compared to standard layout, so it would need more buttons on keyboard? I'm such a noob at this, so....anyone has some solution?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Zurichhb:
Giannis86,

Yes, your right, my bad, wasn't sure about the Polaris, with that said, I'm waiting..... :) Thx.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Sergio PC:
Woooow Im really impressed.

Thanks so much!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
update! sorry for making this wait so long but here it is..

The new feature i mentioned has some issues at the moment so i decided to split it up into 2 versions. Basic and Advanced. Basic can be downloaded as of today (check post 1)

As soon as i fix some of the issues with the predefined texts i will upload the advanced version too.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] scout7:
I had V2.0 installed and thought i might be able to just copy the skins folder over. That didn't work, so save youself some trouble and just remove everything and start fresh. Thanks for the GREAT skin. I LIKE IT ALOT.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
yes indeed..if you have v2 installed you can just delete the whole skin folder and place mine in there...That should do the trick..

my layout has been designed from scratch so i had to change all skin files & some image names..So completely replacing the folder is better in this case

anyway, im glad you like it :D

I am now doing some additional editing on landscape (using the same icons as in portait gives room for 1-2 icons per row extra so i might do something nice with that)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] VarioIII:
1. How do you access that skin that has pre written words like in the photo in post #1?

2. What is the best app to use to get SMS in landscape?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] overjjrk:
Wow, rather ingenious! Loving the current skin, can't wait to see whats in the update your preparing!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Boss428man:
Any chance you could make a qvga version. I'm loving the red theme, looks nice
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] c0de_junkie:
this is the best f'ing

skin i have ever seen man

good job keep up the good

work cant wait for the

advanced version!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
1. The answer to your question is all over the first post. You need the advanced version which i am working on at the moment. There are a couple of bugs to be fixed as well as adding landscape support so it will have to wait a bit.

2. Personally i have a Touch Pro so that's no problem to me..I do use Gsen sometimes when i dont want to slide our the hardware keyboard though. Another option is Gyrator.

@Boss428man

qvga version is in my things to do list. However, its gonna be based on Finger Keyboard 2. Skinning is totally different between the 2 versions and time consuming as well.. If i have the time i might consider adding v2 support for the black edition as well...

Anyway, i will start on qvga once vga is finished.. There are a couple more things to be done so..

@everyone

Thank you for your nice comments :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] kramerica2:
English/Hebrew for v2.0

This is an addition to Giannis86 Glossy VGA Basic Edition.

Pay attention that the letter ף is on top of ד, meaning you have to long click that letter.

Install instructions

Simply copy the files to \Program Files\FingerKeyb\Skins.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
thanx you for your effort..i do have a hebrew keyboard from another user as well though. Will post that too and yours..

Please upload only the language file that is required.

Version 2 supports easier additional languages, where every language has its own txt file.

Please create a new txt document and paste the hebrew layout in there.

Then save it as "skin-03-vga-port-XX-AAA.txt

Where XX= the number of the layout..01 is enlglish, so use 02, 03 etc

AAA=the name of the language (i.e. eng or heb etc..

Thank you :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] kramerica2:
Done! This is definitely easier...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Wueff:
nice one...

i need the QWERTZ layout =) can anyone realize that?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] suiller:
nice project & seems almost easy for create new languages :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
it is once you know how the layout works ;)

doc-about-skin-new file has everything you need to know
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] abhinitagrawal:
help!!

hey i installed it bt it's not appling i m able to see only my old keyboard when i write something or anything else
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
1. have you done a soft reset?

2. have you selected the keyboard from the sip list?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Repetitor:
Great job! :) Can anyone make croatian and danish layout?? Thanks!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] azlchina:
Great . goodlook keyboard . but can you make a version with Chinese .thanks a lot
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] MisterSosa:
Excellent work! Big thanks! will test when i am back from work!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
i cant decide on the new landscape version..i will post some pics in a few min and let you do the talking :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
update!

i changed the landscape layout and it now has a few more buttons, including a dedicated "," and "." button. Check the screenshot in the first post for a closer look!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] BuzzingFreak:
is there a german version, too? with ö,ä,ü,ß ? that would be great.

this looks really adorable.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
there is for WVGA and it could be done for VGA...

i have lots of work to do so it will have to wait...

ofcourse users are welcome to make their own language layouts..it is quite easy..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Brenn:
Looking forward to the advanced edition.. I'm using the version 2 with a really pretty pink/black skin but I'd be willing to swap for this feature!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Soaa-:
Best free keyboard out there. I find that xT9 is indispensible for fast typing. Will there be a way to toggle it without switching to the HTC keyboard?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
@brenn

i have the layout working but i need to solve one annoying issue..i contacted exidler (creator of finger keyboard) about it as i dont know how to solve it...Hopefully he has a solution, otherwise i will post it as it is until a solution is found

@soaa-

to my knowledge xt9 wont be included in finger keyboard..but then again this is with basis what i have read..

for more information and questions you can refer to the original fing.keyb.2 thread (check link in the first post)

what IS included though is WM text suggestion (if that helps)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Techno-Freak:
Great work Giannis86!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] blacriderv:
This keyboard is the best so far ! Better than the new HTC TF3D2 keyboard.

I really love it.

I've made it for AZERTY because I'm french, a small contribution :)

Simply put the 2 files into /Finger Keyboard/Skins/

Then tick "fr" in FingerKeybConfig then Apply.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] MisterSosa:
Merci beaucoup!

will test this when I get back from work and installed this great keyboard. which was the plan yesterday but beers prevented this from happening!

thx again giannis!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
added a link to your post in the first page (post 3)

thank you for your contribution:)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] ididid:
disable clicking sound

Hello,

I really like this keyboard but i have only one question:

Is it possible to disable that horible typing sound????
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
please read the additional notes on page one...you can read how to do it there
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] blacriderv:
or simply remove the line containing the sound file of the file "skin-01-global"
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
thats exactly what my instructions say too :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] MisterSosa:
After testing this for a day, I can thank you enough giannis for porting this to VGA! Can't live without it anymore!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] teorouge:
Hi! Great news, here! Do you guys know anything about TD2 keyboard port compatibility? I had FK installed (perfectly working, I only had to take that annoying "click" :D), installed TD2K and after softreset my Diamond was stuck at the first screen with rom, radio, ecc... Only solution was hard reset. :?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
ehm what does this have to do with finger keyboard ? :S

maybe you should ask the people who are ported TD2 keyboard.

or did i misunderstand your post? :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] teorouge:
Nope you didn't, I was just investing which side the problem stood in (FK or TD2K). But I guess I figured it out... ;)

By the way, great job here! :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
seeing that FK worked perfectly before im sure that TD2K is the problem maker :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] hogar_strasni:
Croatian language files Basic Glossy skin

Hi all,

just a small addition, it is not perfect but these files add the Croatian characters instead of English ones:

q -> č

w -> ć

y -> z

L shift -> đ

z -> ž

x -> š

All the rest is equal as on the English keyboard.

If somebody has a better suggestion for Croatian layout please let me know ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] tumolo:
has anyone heard if they are working on a compact qwerty version of this fantastic keyboard. Keys are to small for my fingers :). Thanks for the contribution.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] colossuss:
Am I retarded or is there no @ key?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
there is...i put it on button "n" (long press) so that it is closer to all internet keys (.com etc)

@tumolo

it is not possible at the moment as compact querty works very differently than finger keyboard. maybe the creator plans to make that in the future but i dont know

@hogar

thanx, i will add a link on the first page
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] suiller:
Dear Gianni can I suggest to collect (on the 1st page) all add-on languages that are coming out dayily?? this will help a lot standard user (like me)

for ex I saw french, polish & croatian layout but they are mixed in the thread :)

very good job, this keyboard is simple & efficient! can I start skinning from your base skin??
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] ric69:
Many Thanks Blacriderv, (and many thanks Giannis too)

I've just replaced some letters needed by french users (added é,è,ç,à,')

So, here is my little contribution too, for this fantastic kb :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
that was done already in post 3..i now edited in post 1 so that you can find it easier

missed out the polish one, thank you

ric69 thank you for your contribution too!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Repetitor:
Nice work, but problem with missing shift key. Not possible to write with big letters, and get to all the other signs you get when pressing shift key normaly. It would maybe be better if đ was an extra button after L? I guess that would need more work, as you would have to move all the buttons in row 2. Maybe this link would help a little bit in deciding where to put letters... QWERTZ layout
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Repetitor:
@ Giannis

By the way, forgot to write in previous post, great work with keyboard setup and skin, definitely essential add on for my Diamond, just one suggestion: Separate more delete/back key and keyboard on/off key. I keep hitting the wrong key while writing, and keep closing my keyboard. Not a big problem while writing short messages, but gets a bit annoying when writing e-mails... (maybe I should just loose some weight to get skinnier fingers...who knows :) )

Keep up the good work, looking forward to advance version ;)

EDIT: Quick noob question: What is the reason for having the key that turns keyboard off? If you are using Diamond, you already have this function built in on diamond under keyboard. This space could be used for some other button/function?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
i dont know..my thoughts exactly..the creators had that button but i dont see the use either..the only use is that if you long press it the WM querty appears

anyway i know what you mean.. the upcoming advanced version with predefined texting has the keyboard button replaced with the TXT button.

I could do the following for the basic version of the keyb button if you like:

make the normal press do nothing

long press=activate keyboard button

you can do this yourself too

Open skin-03-vga-port-01-eng

and replace (at the bottom of the skin)

Key 422 221 56 62 2,2,8,2 tog0 tog1 ,,	ACTION.KbdButton

with

Key 422 221 56 62 2,2,8,2 tog0 tog1 ,,	SC:,ACTION.KbdButton

tell me if that works
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] nir36:
this sip is UNBELIEVABLE!

thank you so much :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] losdrivare:
@Giannis

I'm making a swedish version of this excellent keyboard. Landscape is done, I removed the keyboard on/off key as well as right shift to allow for some rearranging. I'm very happy with the results, I think I managed to make it quite intuitive and similar to a full-size swedish keyboard layout.

Now I'm working on portrait, but I'm having a hard time making a layout that I'm satisfied with.

Question: How do I squeze in Enter to the right on second row? I feel it belongs there... :) All help appreciated.

Teaser shots of my swedish landscape:

...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] PC400:
No way I can install the program or put the skin, as I do, help me!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
@pc400

please look at the original thread (link in the first page) and folow the instructions there.. You can download the cab from there, then delete the skin folder that appears in your program files and replace it with mine

@losdrivare

im not sure what you mean..the "return" button does the same function as the enter button..why would you want another one?

anyway thanx a lot for helping out in adding languages :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] addamlh:
Giannis86 i made you a cab file for the glossy v1.1 it will put a link to the Register exe in the start menu programs folder to make it easy for others
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] losdrivare:
Two reasons:

1. I want Return placed differently on the portrait qwerty, eg next to "L". I would like the 2:nd row to be moved slightly to the left to make place for Return. To me, this is a more intuitive placement for this key.

2. Then I can reconfigure the original Return (between "." and "Keyboard off" into another key. The portrait qwerty has too few keys for swedish, so I need more...

Hope this makes it clear. :D

Now, is it possible to do this?

Can you do it or tell me how to do it myself?

EDIT: Hm, I'm looking at the numbers in the portrait skin.txt file. Are the first column of numbers in each row the x-axis placement? Second column is y? If so, then I think I can make it on my own... :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Repetitor:
Here is my suggestion for a croatian port layout. I removed the keyboard off button, and moved backspace button down, than rearranged second row to get extra button in and placed one more, where backspace key was. This layout doesn't remove any standard keyboard letters (q w x y), just adds 2 extra buttons and other 3 letters are "uppercase" or hold inserted buttons. Didn't make the landscape, because I don't use landscape for writing (only opera supports landscape mode writing on diamond, unless you use some add on program), but if someone is interested, I could try to make something there too(you will have to wait for it thou, as I don't have much spare time on my hands).

If that is the case, what do you think would be better, to keep placements of buttons same as port., or to move buttons around to get the more authentic QWERTY layout? (can't keep QWERTY layout in port, as it needs more space for buttons) So I guess there would be a difference between port and landscape button position (not very practical if you have to look for letters every time you change between port and land layout..... ? but on the other hand, land would be more identical to the normal QWERTY keyboard layout)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] losdrivare:
@Repetitor:

What you did with the croatian portrait layout is what I intend to do with the swedish, except I'll have the Return key next to the "L".

I prefer a layout as close to desktop qwerty as possible. Unfortunately, this is very hard on portrait since there are so few keys to work with. I don't think it matters much if landscape and portrait layouts differ some, or even a lot. I believe most people use either the portrait OR the landscape keyboard and do not switch a lot between them. I for one use almost exclusively the landscape qwerty and I've set most apps that require text input to rotate with ChangeScreen.

My 2 cents... :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Repetitor:
This is the danish port I'm working on. Here I moved buttons a little bit, so I could get 1 extra button more, to get all 3 signs from danish language. It does however cut off the last letter (tiny cut off, but still annoying), so maybe the solution would be to make shift key a little bit smaller and place it where "," key is. "," would be moved to last place in 3'rd row. I only don't know how to make shift key smaller os it's the same size as letter buttons... Can anyone help with this one?

Thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] losdrivare:
Edit the image files for the shift key in the Giannis86Ed directory. You can use Paint for this, I think. Find the shift and make it more narrow, then adjust the placement for the rest of the keys. Haven't tried this, but it looks like it would work.

Also, I'm considering to skip the language toggle key. I think most people use only one language keyboard and at least in scandinavian layouts you have all english keys/chars there anyway. And, if you still want to change language, this can be done in options for finger keyboard. You hardly do it so often that you actually need a key for it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Repetitor:
@ losdrivare

Jep, figured it out, I just didn't know if size was specified anywhere in code... Lang key is one possibility. It's just that I write messages on danish and serbocroatian, so I need 2 different set of signs. Maybe I'll just make one for personal use, where special signs for both lang are included on one layout (combine normal input and "long hold" input). My solution with making shift key smaller isn't practical for distribution either, as you would have to have icon for the key ass well (don't know if it will do anything to other language layouts you have, if you overwrite normal shift icon)

Anyway, would like to se your solution, maybe it's more logical than mine (not wild about backspace key at the bottom, because I got used to it's old placement). How will you place backspace after L? Resize the button, or? There isn't enough room for it in port. layout there.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] benko286:
croatian supported!!!

thx,thx,thx.

downloading immidatly :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] °Dexter°:
Sorry for dumb question,but...is it possible to have symbols like apostrophe or accent?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
yes it is..just open the skin file and replace the symbol that you want with an apostrophe.

to everyone else that was trying to squeeze buttons here are some things to know:

-Finger keyboard will RESIZE UPWARDS (ONLY)the key to the dimensions that you specify! Example: shift key is 56x62.. If you edit the skin file and put 80x80, finger keyb will increase its size to those dimensions. If you put 40x40 in the skin it will NOT work as it can not scale down an image

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO DECREASE SIZE??

1. Use paint as suggested to decrease the image size. However this means that all shift keys would be affected.

2. Make a copy of the shift key, decrease its size and save it with another name. Then add it to the port-00-types.txt (port=portrait). Then use its code (lets say shift-new) in the skin to make use of it. Make sure to correct the image size in the skin!

3 (i would personally do this:D unless you want an even smaller button than 40px width)

The Giannis86 folder contains a small shift key. (key_40_shift_normal) Add it to the types.txt and then edit the skin file (eng.txt etc) and type the desired dimensions
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Repetitor:
Apostroph is actually included on keyboard. It's over G letter after you press SHIFT button...

@ Giannis

Main reason for changing keysize for me was to make room for 1 more button in row 3. I decided in stead to remove language change key in stead, and move shift on it's place. I use 2 languages to write, serbocroatian/croatian, or whatever you want to call it, and danish. I just combined those 2 into 1 keyboard. So there is only kind of limited amount of people that could use this skin...

But I was thinking, would it be possible to make language change key on 123 layout? If you use several different languages for writing, you probably don't change them so often, or in the middle of the message, so moving it to 123 layout (there is plenty of room there) would be perfect solution (but it of course has to, not only change to letters layout, but also change language) If that is possible, I will deliver you layout for danish and croatian (where all letters are included - won't remove QWXY letters, like in hogar_strasni's layout. They are included on standard Croatian keyboards anyway.)

It would look something like this. (where you see danish signs on top of letters, would be placement for danish letters in dan skin and of course they would be removed from Cro skin :) )
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Lorsaaa:
Thanks for this great keyboard!

Just one question though, is it me that I can't find the "!" or is it not included..

Thanks!