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[Touch HD Themes and Apps] civil123:
please help me

I have HTC Blacksyone Phone ..

Please tell me which version from Finger I will use !!?!?

My mean from wvga Qwga , or wQvga ...!?!?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Heart1010:
WVGA for Touch HD (Blackstone)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] richardirv:
You Need WVGA
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
I understand where you're going with this, but this keyboard was designed mainly to be used with fingers (the title kindda gives it away :)), so primary focus is on using it with bare hands.

Also, most of the layouts actually do have a dead-zone around every key. On some layouts it's only a 3-4 pixels big, but there are layouts that have over 10 pixel long separation of keys.

As for the upcoming vibration feature, don't worry. It works on key action, not on the moment of touching the screen. When you press the screen and drag your finger across it, it will not vibrate until the keyboard registers a keypress.

So in fact the feature you want is already included in the keyboard. Only thing is, none of the layouts were made with reverse logic you suggest, because for most people, larger keys and larger "hit-zones" are more preferable.

However, you can easily adapt the existing layouts to work in this way.

So, let me show you:

Key 61 5 44 62

This is how far the bitmap is from the left screen edge

This is how far the bitmap is from the top of the keyboard edge

This is width and height of the bitmap

So, we see that in original skin, the bitmap dimensions are 44x62 pixels. The bitmaps can be stretched, but they won't get shrunk, and this is something you can use! In the upper example the bitmap area is also controlling the surface of the clickable area for that key. So, we have 44x62 bitmap, and 44x62 click area.

If you then change these width and height numbers to 22x31, the keyboard will still show 44x62 bitmap, but the area that can be clicked on will be reduced to 22x31.

That's as much as I can help you!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] lewent:
Working Turkish Language skin ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Hm, you're the first one reporting no pop ups. Probably did something wrong while editing the skin.

First thing you should make sure of is that you saved the modified txt file in UTF8 format.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Nice! I will add this to front page! Did you test the layouts? They work OK?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
hey, chris

it works!!! thank you very much!!! :D

but there is now another question:

i also have to activate eng-layout for getting ger-layout working. why? because i actually wanted to delete eng-files...

and i still can't activate something on second tab (HTC xT9) in settings, too!?!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] patp:
Awesome! I'll have a go once you get the vibration going, thanks.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] sgp181:
Hi. I installed the QVGA version 2.0 on my TyTnII and it works fine in sms but when I click in a text box in Opera the keyboard reverts after a couple of seconds to the standard one. I have installed the SIP change app, so when I soft reset the default is set correctly but as soon as I open opera I'm back with the standard kbd..! Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? I searched this thread for answers but dont think anyone else is reporting this problem...
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
Yes, I'm planning on making my XL skins for VGA as well. Several people have been asking me about that. I'm glad people like them. :) I will continue to make them in the three languages I use (German, Spanish, English).

My schedule is really busy right now, but I'll do it as soon as I can. Once I have it, I'll post it with all my other skins (see my signature for the link).
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
I'm glad it works.

Try setting your default language in the global.txt file to ger.

As far as HTC xT9, I would wait until the new version of Fingerkeyboard comes out. It might resolve your issue.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
hey, chris

i'm at work again - nightshift. so i only had the possibilty to make the change you said directly on my kaiser.

first it didn't work because i didn't realize that i saved the file after making changes not in .txt but inadvertently in .doc. but now everything ist working fine und i allready could delete the eng-layouts. ;)

so i only can repeat: thank you very much!!! you're great man!!!

as far as HTC xT9 is concirned i'll wait for new version like you said. it's the best way because the important things are now working... :D

still one question:

will your layouts also work with new version of fingerkeyb 2.1? i'm asking because of all the new features rozenthal declared.

greetings
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
@chris chross

help needed again, yet!

i realized one problem:

everytime after switching from ger-qwertz to 123-numeric block and than trying to switch back to ger-qwertz it doesn't work because there is only en-qwerty offered. and like i posted before i deleted eng-layouts. so keyb doesn't switch back from numeric block anymore.

what can i do to solve this prob?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
Yes - they will work. If I need to make minor adjustments, then I'll do that to make sure they work. Any new versions or updates will always be posted in the link from my signature.

I don't have the digits.txt file you are using, but it sounds like the key to switch to letters is set to ACTION.EngLayout

If so, change that to ACTION.PrevLayout

Make sure you type it just as I did. Capital letters matter!!!

Check both the landscape and portrait digits files!!!

EDIT: Oh one more thing. In that same line, you will see ,EN,,EN

Change that to ,DE,,DE so that the key will display the DE instead of EN. Otherwise, it would still take you to the previous layout (in your case, German), but it would display EN on the key. ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
okay...

i changed both files the way you said but now in numeric block only the first line with numbers is displayed.

unfortunately i'm not able to upload my digits-files itself because i've no possibility here at work. the only way is you pm me your email-adress for sending it directly from my kaiser to your account.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
v2.1 Screenshots!

I just

have

to show you some of the latest v2.1 stuff we're preparing :)

Biggest layout changes have happened in both English layouts. They have now been really polished, and hopefully everyone will find them very good.

Portrait English layout has been redesigned, and should now have all the needed symbols and all the bugs fixed. One thing you might notice missing is "123" button. ChrisCross gave a great idea that it is possible to use "Shift+Language key" to switch to digits layout, and since that meant enough space for 2 additional keys (dot and comma), we went for it. I hope everyone agrees that dot and comma get used much more often then 123 key.

The bottom graphic bars you see in 2 of the screenshots will probably only be available for English portrait layout. Other layouts will use the normal updated graphics, but without the connected bars. This is because in some layouts there simply is not enough room on the screen to organize the keyboard as shown in these screenshots. Since English has rather small key count compared to other layouts, for now it will be the only one with this feature.

Also, you can see the new English landscape layout - BIG keys, no wasted space, dedicated dot key and perfectly aligned graphics. This should also satisfy many current users...

The last 3 screens - those are the new options and customizations in Config tool :)

Comments and suggestions are welcome!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
@chris cross

oh, it seems you went to sleep... :D

so i'll upload my digits-files today evening from home.

thx so far!!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
W O W !!!​

really great stuff! can you say when it will be ready for sharing? i can hardly wait!!! :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] oppman29:
Awesome.. will these features be implemented for QVGA? BTW I have tried a crapload of keyboards and yours by far is the best. thanks

:)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
good morning! :D

i'm back home and before i now go to sleep i'll post some screenshots and upload my files (take also care on my post 622)...

error numeric after changing digits to ger

global after changing to ger/qwertz

digits portrait after changing to ger/DE

digits landscape after changing to ger/DE​

and here my files (default version + changed to ger):

View attachment skins_qvga_global+digits_default.zip

View attachment 166064

thx in advance, chris!!!

see you later...
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] utak3r:
I have some really strange issue with FKB2.0:

I have 3 layouts in portrait:

skin-02-qvga-port-01-pol

skin-02-qvga-port-digits

skin-02-qvga-port-texts

in globals:

Action PolskiLayout	SL:pol

Action NumericLayout	SL:digits

Action TextsLayout	SL:texts

and while on pol and texts all is great:

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then on the digits layout there's some strange error in displaying one key - it behaves properly, but it says wrong:

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look at bottom left keys. Those keys are respectively:

LayoutBegin pol
Key 1 99 28 31 1,1,4,1 dig0 dig1 ,,	ACTION.NumericLayout
Key 31 99 28 31 1,1,4,1 lng0 lng1 ,TEXTnl,,TEXTnl	ACTION.TextsLayout

LayoutBegin texts
Key 1 99 28 31 1,1,4,1 lng0 lng1 ,TEXTnl,,TEXTnl	ACTION.PolskiLayout
Key 31 99 28 31 1,1,4,1 dig0 dig1 ,,	ACTION.NumericLayout

LayoutBegin digits
Key 1 99 28 31 1,1,4,1 lng0 lng1 ,TEXTnl,,TEXTnl	ACTION.PolskiLayout
Key 31 99 28 31 1,1,4,1 lng0 lng1 ,TEXTnl,,TEXTnl	ACTION.TextsLayout

so either I'm blind or there's something wrong with the bottom left key, which leads to pol layout properly, but it says something different.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] lewent:
No Problem i tested, other Turkish Language skin wqvga res. (HD not working)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] kkchan:
Hi,

How to "Shift+Language key" ?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
I predict it will be next week. We don't want to rush it.

The new DLL and Config tool are done, but all layouts need updating and I have sent Beta files to a few people that have been with us from the beginning, so I want to hear from them first about possible bugs before we go live.

I can also announce 1-3 new Color schemes in the next version, just in case you got bored with the current ones :)

Also, thanks to a very generous XDA user called GoldCoin, we are going to be launching FingerKeyboard web page! Hopefully, that will be ready next week as well!

So, a lot of good new stuff is coming!

As for the different resolutions, we can confirm:

- official WVGA skins

- official WQVGA skins

- official QVGA skins

- official VGA skins

I can't confirm that we will have ALL the languages working on ALL the skins, but there will be some! Also, your old custom skins will work with new version - however, they will need small updates if you wish to use new features such as "Undo" or "shift + Language / longpress Language = 123". People who made their custom skins will have no trouble updating...
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Hm, not sure. I'm guessing it's simply a matter of TEXTnl action. I don't think it was designed to show then once on the keyboard.

I'll have to ask Exidler about this.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
This action is not yet implemented in current v2.

It's coming in the next version!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] ausi:
Can someone please tell me how i can do "CTRL a"......lets say i have a lot of em's that i want to delete in one DELETE action??
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Not sure I understand your question? You want to select a text and delete it?

If that is the case, then go into CAPS lock mode, go to the end of the text (or beginning) and longpress Pageup. After that, just tap Backspace.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] gdem3685:
It would be great if you make a v2.1a version with the old 123 button style. Just in case somebody prefer the old way. :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] utak3r:
It's just a matter of the skin itself... go and make yourself you like it :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] ausi:
I would like to elborate:

When looking in my Inbox i see lets say 10 em's which i want to delete, usually i would press "CTRL a" and all the em's would be highlighted, then i would press DELETE and all 10 em's would be thrown out in one DELETE {i see there is a key for CTRL c & v!!}

I hope that explains it.

Thanks
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] colthekid:
I've been tyrying to use the skins from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=483218 but, as i mention in that thread, they don't work, for me, has the skin.txt format changed since version 1.4?

Any ideas would be helpful! :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] utak3r:
just make it:

Action CtrlA	OS:3:VK:0004:0x11:VK:0:0x41:VK:0006:0x11

and you're done :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Adam4U:
It looks GREAT, thank you in advance for your work...

One recommendation if I may is to find a way to make it the default SIP after soft reset may be a great help. SIPChange is not working on the Touch HD, and I did not found an other way to make it the default SIP.....
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Fallen Spartan:
Is there a way to have finger keyboard 2 as default keyboard so after every soft reset it is already set.

If I go into sms and select finger keyboard and also start/personal/input adn select finger keyboard everything is grand until I reset the device

Apologies if solution posted before :o
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Shetlander:
@ Adam4u & Fallen Spartan.

I am using SIP change on my Touch HD and have been for a while. I soft reset my phone 2 or 3 times a day and have never had a problem yet. Fingerkeyboard is always the default now.

My problem at the moment is that with the latest ROM im using (Onkologs) with the new manila, when I rotate the phone to landscape to type an email or text and even in Opera, the keyboard pops up in portrait size and not landscape. Has anybody else noticed/experienced this and if so solved it?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Fallen Spartan:
Will try SIP change and see what happens. I experienced your problem with portrait keyboard while in landscape mode. I had to uninstall it, then reinstall it and soft reset
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Yes, the skins have changed. However, since I'm not really familiar what exactly those skins look like, I can't say why they don't work for you.

I see that some users are using those skins with new v2, so it should work for you. Does FKBD work (with default skins)?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] colthekid:
Yes the fingerkeyboard2 works fine as a "normal" keyboard, I can only assume that it must be a change in the skins from 1.4 to 2.0 that's causing it.

Can't see what though myself.

:(
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Adam4U and FallenSpartan...

First of all, that question has been answered several times in the thread, and it is actually also explained in the very first post, with needed files attached.

SIPChange does work with HD, you only need to set the timeout to 50 seconds. On some ROMS it can be 40 seconds, or longer, depending on how long it takes for system to boot.

We have been considering implementing this option into the Config tool, but we haven't yet decided our minds about it.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
It has to be those skins then. Perhaps someone from that thread can share their working v2 skins with you. Sorry for not being able to help you more :(
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Shetlander:
I have my SIP change set to the default of 10 seconds and no problems. Guess its a case of trying whats good for your particular setup.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Popi21:
I just want to know how to disable the sounds in the keyboard when your pressing them?:)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] artesea:
Why not read the thread, try post 3 titled FAQs!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] kruch:
I would love to have no pop ups - any way to disable them? Thank you!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] SecretPlace:
Version question

Hey there, this is great work!!! This keyboard has yet to be topped. I have one simple question: I use the German layout, but "ä" and "ü" and so on are on the English layout (z and y). Is there a cab out here were this is fixed? I am sorry if I could not find it... THX!!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] m0nkeyman:
have tried to install on my diamond but just not working shame think it looks good. so gonna stick with touchpal. god knows why but installed ok but freeze phone up when picking keyboard. doing my head in don't get it been using and putting programs on pocket pcs for years and never had a program I couldn't install.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
@chris chross

hey, i retried to change your mentioned entries in digits and global and replaced old files in skins with them. i don't know why, but now the fingerkeyb portrait mode (type and numeric layout) seems working... :D by the way xl-landscape still doesn't... :(

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now only one little thing is left:

everytime when i switch from htc keyboard ("tastatur") to fingerkeyb, numeric layout opens first and i have to change back to type layout. is this behavior changeble, so that type layout opens first when switching on fingerkeyb???

thx in advance!

...and just have a nice weekend! ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] OnlinePredator:
This is the best keyboard I have come across for use on my touch HD. Works flawlessly with the T9 and the keys are perfect that I barely make any mistakes any more compared to the Full Qwerty by HTC. AND ITS FREE!!!!!

Many thanks to Rozenthal for an awesome product.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] sgp181:
bump... any ideas on the opera thing?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] jospabloh:
Will be an update for QVGA, which include all the cool features within VGA? :confused: I really thing that this keyboard is amazing, but the QVGA version is a little bit short compared with the others, Is there a chance to update this version? :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] jospabloh:
Is possible to do something like this for QVGA?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Adam4U:
I am using the original ROM from HTC, no cooked rom, so maybe that is the problem..please take in consideration, that most users are not flushing their phone with a "cooked" rom, so it will be nice to have an other way to make the FingerKeyboard the default SIP. Maybe we are just regular users, in need of a really good keyboard, which in my opinion FingerKeyboard is, without tinkering with the ROM (it will void my guaranty).
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Adam4U:
Thank you for being a bother, tried SIPChange with 40, 50, and a lot of other settings, still no joy...maybe the problem is my ROM version from HTC 1.14.479.3 (25874) WWE. As you can see from the posts related to SIPChange, on the same type of phone (HD), for some it's working, for some is not, so it will be really a GREAT solution for us, the less gifted, to have a solution for this issue in the FingerKeyboard config..:-)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
We are aware of the Opera bug and searchbox. Similar issue, but to lower extent has been noted on HD as well (on HD backspace missfunctioned in Opera).

As far as I know, Exidler has already made some updates to the dll for the next version. If you want to make sure your problem will be 100% dealt with, you will need to use Debug logger (post 3) and send me the logs.

If this problem is reoccurring every time in Opera, then follow the instructions in debug logger, but also go to Opera and let the keyboard swap to default SIP, so the event get's logged.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
The problem is, there should not be any problems using SIP change. It's not rocket science, just a very small app that makes sure your selected SIP is set as default automatically each time on reset. It does only that, and nothing more.

If we include such a feature into Config, it will basically be the same SIPchange tool you can use now.

If SIPchange isn't working, I can only imagine it's a 3rd party issue. Don't think it would have anything to do with ROM, especially not the stock one.

The reason we're not yet decided should we include such a feature is cases like yours - where the SIPchange simply doesn't work. We already have gazillion requests and questions on our hands, so we really don't want to give us even more stuff to deal with.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] jospabloh:
some new skins QVGA

Hi,

I was working yesterday and decide to create/mod two skins SPA & TXT (both spanish) for QVGA, here you have the screenshots, let me know your thoughts. :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] idandush:
Hi ,

I checked this thread and couldn't find solution , so if there is i am sorry .

my problem is , once i go to landscape the keyboard is not poping up automaticly .

i do want it to be auto .... how can i change it ?

Thanks
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Jammy2:
I've installed the WVGA keyboard, and I appaer to have having two problems:

1- When I try to change the options, and it still asks me to soft reset even when I have.

2- The keyboard doesn't stretch from edge to edge in landscape mode, see the pic.

I turned it off and on and did a soft reset.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] miggymini:
Hey Jammy2 this concern has previously been addressed. It was designed like that to minimize finger motion. You see some images showing a full screen keyboard that is Chris Cross's XL design. The Creator of Fingerkeyboard will be releasing an update soon to bring an edge to edge landscape keyboard as a standard.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] ausi:
Hi

Thankyou for your answer but i really don't understand what needs to be done & how & where to do it.

Please explain.

I would like to elborate:

When looking in my Inbox i see lets say 10 em's which i want to delete, usually i would press "CTRL a" and all the em's would be highlighted, then i would press DELETE and all 10 em's would be thrown out in one DELETE {i see there is a key for CTRL c & v!!}

I hope that explains it.

Thanks
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
@chris cross

hi

i want to change the smily "8-)" on the h-key. so far i changed in your "skin-02-qvga-port-06-ger.txt" the smily and now it's even shown on keyboard.

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but when i long press h-button the old smily appears. so what i've to do?

as always thx in advance!!! ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] jospabloh:
You may want to change your h row with this..
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
thx!

but i want this smily:

";p)"

would you be so kind to give the line not as .jpg but written, so that i can copy + paste it directly from post into the file.

thx!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] hottiger:
I must be the dumbest person right now but I've installed this, now how the hell do I get landscape mode? :o
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] utak3r:
just make it

SS:3;p)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] jospabloh:
If your ROM doesn't have the software to do that (programas), you will need to search an app to do that. try RotateScreen in the search.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
thx!!! i appreciate i've now understood system... :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] m0nkeyman:
ok I want to try this. But it not working installed the WVGA cab on my diamond and when I go to pick which keyboard to use my phone just freezes. HELP PLEASE
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] utak3r:
did you softreset?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] miketg45:
cool application does it not support (Chinese , japanese, Korean?)

good work, it was a very cool application that u made

is it possible to make ( CHINESE, JAPANESE, KOREAN) keyboard?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Adam4U:
OK, thank you...anyway looking forward to see the new version, it is a GREAT Keyboard, and love using it..!!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] m0nkeyman:
yeah did soft reset the works still no joy.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Megolk:
please create us in german - plaese

or can one explain to me how change it in german

sorry for my bad english
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RealGunman:
sorry, but i'm not able to follow your question!

do you wanna have german layout?