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[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Lazpa Cllis:
I cannot edit the file and work on it, but if you could get soeone to make it in Europea POirtuguese it would be fantastic, thanks a lot e good work.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Repetitor:
Thank you for the help frajdek! Now I understand the large bill I'm getting. Shame though that I hade to go all tecnical on international website to find out about this. Well, nothing to do about it now. Guess I won't be using serbocroatian layout of keyboard after all, as I'm mainly using it for SMS.

Once againg, thanks!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] frajdek:
I'm glad I could help :)

For the same reason I'm using mostly eng layout, Polish one is useful only for sending e-mails and editing contac list.

BTW, i anyone is interested, here is the eng-pl skin I made for myself.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] corepda:
Not working on TyTn II, Wm6.1 :(
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Yeah, I would recommend that special characters are not used in SMS typing. Not only it's causing the problems such as you have, but it can also be a problem for recipients who have older phones which do not support these characters at all.

It's best to use these symbols only in web browsing and e-mail.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Hi Mike,

if you check the post #1 you will see that the upcoming v2.0 will have support for word completion (not T9 tough, just default WinMo word suggestions).

The current v1.4 does not support it, so be patient a little bit more. The new keyboard is pretty much finished, and so far seems to be working very well - our beta testers haven't had any problems with it.

Also, we already have over 10 finished language layouts, so only thing left is to make a configuration utility that will control color schemes and languages.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] frajdek:
Current version is for WVGA only. But I guess it could be fixed by editing the skin.txt file..
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] inarus14:
hi

guys i having a problem (don't know if is) but when i do soft reset the keyboard go to compact keyboard.. its possible to stay always FINgerKeyboard?

Thnx a lot Rozenthal for your good work

sorry my bad english >.<
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] thierryb:
Thanks Rozenthal

I created my own simple and light virtual dpad using FingerKeybd

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=483218
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] nikolas:
Tested on Polaris?

Has anyone tested this keyboard on Polaris. I have installed it omy HTC Touch Cruise, but when I choose it, I see nothing (no error message, nothing).
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] JezdziecBezNicka:
Polish Skin

Since I don't like the idea of having different keyboards/layouts for various tasks, I took Frajdek's layout and equipped the Polish layout with every symbol I found on my pc keyboard. Feel free to use it:

View attachment 158304
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Radioeuropa:
You're missing Portugal

We need European Portuguese Please, but i can't make it, i'm sorry:o
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] ILIGCONS:
Spanish skin...

I need help with the spanish skin....

Anyone, please????

Thanks in advance.

Cheers
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] nikolas:
Ok I have seen it now! This thread is for the Blackstone! :-)

So I will rephrase my question.

Is there any QVGA version of FingerKeyb? :-)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] sameerabedi:
First of all I'd like to say an excellent keyboard, making typing so much easier then the provided one.

I have a very simple question - on certain keys it has other letters in grey over it - such as 'www' over the 'k' button. What do I do to get 'www' on the screen??

Thanks
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] exidler:
hold button for a bit.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] hanackin:
Hello guys :D

Any news on a target date ? :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
it should be easy to do as it all depends on the skins..

i could give it a try if you like but i need someone to test it..i will wait for v2 to become public first though so that reskining for the new version wont be necessary

by the way, for those who are wondering about a vga version i have made one here.. supports the current version and version 2 as well (not posted yet though..just a sneak preview :D )
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] BadCluster:
ok this skin.txt is working in landscape... but i need help to map better the images!

EDIT

@gamby77: I attach also the full packet of finger keyboard, try t do that:

1. Run attached Fingerkeyb_register.exe and unregister keyboard.

2. Softreset(reboot) phone

3. Copy new attached Fingerkeyb.dll to place of old one.

4. Run Fingerkeyb_register.exe and register keyboard.

(alternative, you can just rename old dll on the phone to another name, copy new dll and reboot the phone)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] gamby77:
I cannot give an help 'cause I have no experience in this thing... However i wait for a version with better images :D:D:D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] gamby77:
Ok but what about the "SKIN.zip" file? I have to unzip inside the skin folder?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] BadCluster:
i think you can don't do it but if you want you can do it...
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] gamby77:
I'm a little bit confused. So first of all i've installed your black keyboard and works fine. Now I have to unregister and reinstall this new file to use the keyboard also in landscape? So i don't need the skin.zip file? thanks
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] BadCluster:
ok sorry.. I've do it a new one, download this new one, and replace all files.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
v1.2 - landscape mode under construction! vertical works fine - new keyboard layout!

Gamby, I would not recommend you install the new landscape version, because it's not nearly finished. I have been experimenting with landscape this afternoon, and it seems that the graphics will need a lot of reskinning before we can call it usable. At the moment, it's quite a mess, with many keys overlapping etc. It does however work perfectly in vertical mode.

If you still want to try it, then download the file I'm attaching and follow this procedure:

1. Copy Run Fingerkeyb_register.exe to the phone, run it and unregister keyboard.

2. Softreset (reboot) the phone.

3. Copy new attached Fingerkeyb.dll into Fingerkeyb folder, and replace the old one.

4. Copy new attached Skins.txt into "Fingerkeyb\Skins" folder, and overwrite the old one.

5. Run Fingerkeyb_register.exe and register keyboard.

You can also delete the old "Register.exe" and "SipTest.exe", to keep things simple.

Now, you will have Fingerkeyboard back, and it will work in vertical mode without any problems. However, don't expect miracles from landscape mode.

As I said, landscape mode is still "under construction".

BTW, I have updated keyboard layout in Skin.txt for this latest version, it now has "www" and "net", as well as some additional symbols included.

Also, if it would not be a problem, I would kindly ask people that are editing Skin.txt to use the one I have attached now for further progress. Because, if we keep mixing italian, german, russian, custom made etc. skin.txt files, it's gonna be very hard to keep track of who did what and where.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] berkut_g:
nice work Rozenthal and thanks exidler for the complete on how it works . stupid me i didn't see that one .

the new layout looks ok except for the arrows.

i'll try to redesign these and the space bar now that i got to figure it out :)

keep in touch.

really nice keyboard exidler ! thank you !
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] SBS_:
Looks like an excellent keyboard this one thanks to Rozenthal for the skin and exidler for the keyboard. Just played around a bit with the SKIN.txt and I'll attach a norwegian layout for the ones interested. Just made it in five mins so there could potentially be some errors, but I haven't found any yet.

I'm sure there are better ways to put in some of the characters, but I'll look some more at it later :)

edit:

Didn't see the post about using a specific SKIN.txt, I guess it's just a matter of copy/pasting what I changed into a newer one.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] cerato:
Good work!! Could you try to implement BULGARIAN language (BDS and phonetic)?

Herebelow I attach some files that could probably help. They suit Resco kbd.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] berkut_g:
final for today version ... i'm dead beat :)

in attachement is romanian version and russian version + landscape mode , all in black tks to rozenthal.

in landscape mode there is no second language just english.

also with screen shots.

instructions :

- unzip files in skins.zip

- replace files in program files \ fingkeb \ skins with these unziped files

for russian :

- replace skin.txt with skin_rus.txt (after you rename skin_rus.txt to skin.txt :) )
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Great job guys!

Berkut, that screenshot looks sweet, I'm gonna test it right away!

I can tell that the arrow images got a little skewed because they're not in their native resolution. I am going to make new arrow files for the landscape version, also new spacebar. After I check everything and set up updated keyboard layout to work in landscape mode as well, I will post the final version.

After that, I suggest that people that want to make new language packs use the skin.txt from the first post, so that everyone starts from the same source file. I believe that will save us a lot of problems :)

[EDIT: just tested - works in landscape! Also made new graphics for landscape, so hold on - they will be up shortly]
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] berkut_g:
the problem with the arrow keys is that i resized them manually because they would not skew / strech in landscape mode.

i'm done for today with this one , but i think i needs a little more work on the right side :)

LE: there might be some ._xxxxx where xxxxxx is file name. those come from my mac os x :) you can delete them and don't worry about them at all.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] elite-fusion:
i have the ENG+RUS version installed, but when i go into opera and do the landscape keyboard, the buttons are messed up, they are too big so they end up being one on top of the other...how can i fix that :(
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] nikki-m:
Guys, this keyboard has some great functions which make it really useful, BUT I can only make it work well when using the stylus.

When selecting a letter by finger "iphone-style", ie by sliding my finger around until I land on the right character, it selects the upper character instead of the main character, unless I am really quick.

Is there any way to add a longer delay before it selects this alternate character???
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] berkut_g:
did you replace skin.txt with skin_rus.txt?

did you copy all files in skin.zip to your program files \ fingkeb \ skin ?

i had to resize some buttons (space and arrows ) .

there should be in your skin folder some files with xxxxL.bmp , which are the new bmp 's for landscape mode.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] elite-fusion:
i installed v1.2 http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3279689&postcount=28 from that post
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] berkut_g:
and then use these instructions :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3280350&postcount=33
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Kalinof:
Hi Rozenthal

How can we use RBG_COLOR options.

Can you show an example for

FontNormal	normal

FontHold	hold

FontSelected	selected

FontSelectedHold	selhold

and RBG_COLOR for

1. a single line

2. a single charester

3. TRANSPARENT_COLOR: (x,y|RGB_COLOR)

4. ; Font definition for current resolution

; Font FONT_NAME FONT_COLOR FONT_FACE_NAME FONT_SIZE FONT_WEIGHT

************************************************************

BTW Great Work!(FingerKeyb) All the Way UP!!!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] chompy18:
Currently working on mapping the Hebrew skin for 0.20.

During this work, I came across a few issues:

1. English default skin has a few bugs (for example instead of typing # it types !)

2. Keyboard still has the issue of not being the default one after soft reset.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] kostis:
Guys the keyboard is fantastic, looking great and really functional.

I use it on a htc hd with english and greek languages.

I have a small problem, when using it in landscape mode, I can switch from greek to english but not vice versa. To go from english to greek I have to press numeric and from numeric I can go to greek.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] btomer:
have you tried the one posted in #347:D.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Seven_PRX:
Probably requested multiple times, but will you add support for T9?

That's something I really miss. Not sure if you can somehow use the T9 which is being used by the default QWERTY keyboard.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] hanjoster:
And don't forget the 'underscore' _
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] frajdek:
I'm running v 1.4 on Leo's 7.5 rom without any problems.

Just made the clean install from cab, apllied my skin and registered dll - everything working fine!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Not at the moment, but as Gianis said, it's pretty much a matter of resizing the skin graphics and making the changes in the layout. I can't make this, because it's hard to do it without being able to test it on a QVGA device.

However, we will most likely publish a WQVGA in our v2.0, since I just sent the WQVGA graphic files to Exidler, and that might be the best starting point for QVGA adaptation.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Hello, sorry for not posting updates... It's been a busy week :P

Anyways, our beta testers have only reported a few minor bugs, and since now we have a working configuration utility, I hope we'll be able to publish v2.0 before the end of the week.

Our beta testers have been very good, and most of the language layouts have arrived! We got 11 different languages supported at the moment, still missing a few, but if they're not ready for the launch they will probably be published and added later on.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Can't really help you. I see someone said they have it working normally on that ROM.

It's a bit hard to know what's causing problems on different ROM's, because chefs change so many things it's not possible for us to provide support for each and every one.

In fact, I'm having some problems with my Dutty 1.8 extreme ROM as well.

We can only confirm it will work very well on stock ROM's, can't guarantee for the others. You'll just have to experiment.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
No, unfortunately there will not be a T9 support. New version v2.0 will have Windows Mobile word suggestion if you like it, but not T9.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] hanackin:
thanks a lot my friend for the updates :cool:

that's good news !

cheers :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Probably an error in skin.txt. Hold on for few days, new version is coming and it will have new Greek language layout included.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] avimak:
WOW!

amazing keyboard!

Thanks you so much, and thanks to the guy with the Hebrew Skin.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Hi, I would suggest you wait for the new version to be published if you're interested in making new skins.

It will be much more easier to comprehend what is what, and there is a documentation file included with everything explained.

The colors need to be in HEX values, if you use Photoshop, pick a color, double click on it and when it opens Color Picker window, you will see a little box at the bottom row with a "#" and a 6 digits / letters. This is what you then need to use in the skin txt layouts. For example white is "ffffff", black is "000000", pure red is "ff0000" etc.

Also, in new version there will be a scheme.txt file that will control the colors of fonts on different actions (normal, hold, push etc.).

As for the transparency, it's simple - whatever the color is set to be the background color of the keyboard, that's the color that will be transparent in the graphic files. If you set "000000" to be keyboard background, then everything that is 100% black will be transparent.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
just a side note to this:

xonvertion fron VGA to QVGA is much better.. QVGA is 240x320 res which is exactly half the res of VGA. the only thing that needs to be done is to make the images half the size and divide the x,y positions in the skin files by 2..

i am willing to give it a shot, if someone wants to test it..
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Kalinof:
Good News for a new version, Good News! 10x man for news and advises!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] baz43:
How can i get the landscape mode to work on my diamond?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] NoBody20013:
hi,

great work! just tried out your keyboard and still testing.

one question:

is there a way to make the time for which the button has to be pressed for the second sign (e.g. the numbers) longer? it happens often that i want the first sign of a button and pressing a second to long and the wrong sign appears....

thank you!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] r'n'b:
Thank you guys!!!

Working very good with eng/heb keyboard :D.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] point2i:
hello

i could not get the hebrew keyboard right on my diamond !

can anyone help me out with that issue ?

thanks
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Giannis86:
the diamond is VGA resolution...the skins in this thread are WVGA..

check here for VGA skins including a hebrew/english skin

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=483368
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Yes there is!

Edit the line in skin txt file "HoldTime", just change the number to something higher if you want longer delay. For example if you type

HoldTime 500

then it will take 500 miliseconds for the keyboard to register a long press. 1000 = 1 second, etc. Experiment a bit and see what suits you best.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] philiptw:
this may be a stupid question but i thought i will regret it if i dont ask..

Any chance of a Traditional Chinese keyboard? (ZhuYin?) :P
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] NoBody20013:
thank you rozenthal!

its working good. i have changed to 800 ms and thats better for me ;-)

one Question still left for me:

i read about writing "on release" like the iphone keyboard... its not implementet yet? i think this would be a GREAT feature, because it will higher the effectivness. is there a way to change this?

thank you very much!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] HJ200:
Hi,

Nice keyboard, smilies are very handy. I noticed the comma and semicolon button in landscape mode don't work well (normal press results nothing, long press = comma, but should be semicolon). Is this a known bug / feature? :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] elite-fusion:
when is the v2 coming out Rozenthal
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] pinoypi:
uninstall

I like the app so I decided to install it in my phone running alternative ROM, hoping it will work. I install it using manual procedure (create folder in /Programs/FingerKeyb, etc)

Unfortunately, it is not displaying when I choose it as my input. :(

I think it is because of the ROM compatibility. So, I decided to remove the apps (run the .exe, choose "unregister", then delete the folder in /Programs.., soft-reset).

I notice when I try to choose in input options, the FingerKeyb is still in the list/options.

May I know how can I remove it from the list? I believe it is on the SIP list. Where can I found in registry the sip list? Or any tool to remove it.

Thank you.

Btw, still nice app.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] point2i:
oh man thank you so much

you and the keyboard creators did my phone more freindly :)

keep doing your great job

regards .:)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
We haven't made a definite decision yet. Exidler can work on the keyboard files only on weekends, so it might just be this weekend, or the next one at the latest.

The keyboard is ready, the config tool is ready, the documentation is ready, the release text is ready, and the language packs are (mostly) ready.

All of this needs some tuning and some corrections... We'd like this to work with alternative ROM's as well, and at the moment I'm having problems with Dutty latest ROM, while Exidler is not. So, there is still some stuff to be fixed.

Also, every day I'm getting e-mails with people offering to work on different language layouts, and I'm very glad that hopefully we'll have support even for the exotic languages, along with the most common layouts.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] hanackin:
as beta tester for the new french version, I'm using it with the new rom of dutty and it is working perfectly.... :confused:

that's weird....:(
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Yeah I know, works well in portrait mode for me, but not in landscape (tried SMS and Opera). Can you please test it out and report?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] xmsnx:
AUTO CHANGE SIP on startup

Finally works, install the cab below, set it to 1 sec and change to fingerkyb :D Reboot and it'll be selected!!!! :D

*EDIT* Not working after the third soft reset, can't get it to work anymore :(
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] hanackin:
ok ok....i didn't tried that....shame on me... I confirm that it is not working in landscape.... with SMS and opera... :(
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] sshick:
I would like to become a tester version 2. Russian language.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rainbow86:
Hi i have been downloading the fingerkeyb but it does not work in landscape mode.

How do i make it work? Have tried to download it several times also after a hard reset but still dont work do i need get gyrator or something for that?

Or is it another way to get it to work in that mode.

Thanks and is a great keyboard
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Are you using a ROM with automatic rotation?

Did you try it in Opera landscape?

If the keyboard won't switch to landscape, try minimising it, rotating from portrait to landscape and then open it.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] zaharakis:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=475468 ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] domenic79:
Hi friends, any news for new version 2.0!!!!!!!!!

and i use italian version, haw i can put a big letter permanently?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
It makes a difference if you press the shift arrow quickly or if you hold it for 1-2 seconds.

tap: returns to small letters after you press a capital letter once

tap+hold 1-2 seconds: stays in CAPS-Lock mode until you press it again.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] HJ200:
HTC green

Hi guys,

I made a green skin for myself, but maybe some of you are interested to use it.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Nice work! Compliments to both of you guys!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] 7Bit:
Thanks a lot, great german layout! Without the annoying sound, and a lot more finger-friendly. FingerKeyb rocks!

Simply the best keyboard for the Blackstone. And with the new layout, again better. I am waiting for v2! :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] hanackin:
for info on the update please see the pages before you will see the answer from Rozenthal :cool:
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] dnbcat:
Hi, thanks all the testers and developers 4 this keyboard! I use it right now and it work great! :)

But i want to know if it possible to have Russian and German layouts in it?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
I updated my German + English + Numeric keyboards to include portrait AND landscape modes. Read update info in my original post here. You need my updated zip files for it to look right!

Here and landscape screenshots.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] WaveyKat:
Looks Great do you have an English version? without the D-Pad?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
Thanks!

Yes, you can switch between English and German. Each one comes with or without D-pad (see my zip file). Both available in portrait or landscape mode. You can also edit the skin files to include characters you might use more often.

Just rename whichever you skin file (with or without D-pad) to "skin.txt" and paste it in the keyboard skins folder on your HD.

Make sure you also paste the few image files from my zip file. You need them if you use my skin. Just pick the color you want and add all those images to the skins folder - overwriting the ones you have.

Auto-find names!!!!!!!!!

Here is a little trick I accidentally found. When writing an sms, start typing the first two letters of the recipient's name. Then delete one letter. Now, the pop-up with a name suggestion comes up. You can continue to type the name or scroll through the suggestions. :)