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[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
Here is what I put together for you. I put both brackets on one key (since they're not used as often) in order to free up an extra key for the characters you wanted. I also adapted the space bar .bmp files to fit correctly. Just copy it into the respective color. I only made blue, red and green since they are the most common.

Let me know if that works for you.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] gruvngyrl:
I have SPB Backup installed, but what I had previously backed up was a bad copy of my original setup, so when I restored it, I ended up with exactly what I had prior to hard resetting (thus requiring the second hard reset, hehe). I still have previous backups, but I have no idea which ones were from a time when things were working properly, so I didn't bother with them. Now that I have things almost totally back to normal - well, better, in fact - I've backed it up again, so that in case anything goes wrong, I can restore it easily without having to start from scratch. The only issue that the hard reset didn't fix was that my videos are somehow saving as corrupted files. It's been doing that since July, and I have yet to find a fix, or even a reason for why it's happening. I had my fingers crossed that resetting would fix it, but nope. Thankfully, all the other weird quirks my phone had have been worked out.

You are my favorite person right now, Chris. :D Thank you for all the work you've put in! The new layout looks absolutely perfect, except for one tiny detail. :o The brackets on the same button actually type both brackets at the same time. I'm not sure if that was by design, or if you meant for one to be produced on the short press and one on the long. Is it possible to make the left bracket the default on short press, and the right bracket appear on a long press? I honestly hardly ever use them, so it's not a big deal, but it's still fun to keep track of the changes you've made to the code, so I can kind of learn what's going on.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
LOL - cool, I'm your favorite person right now.

No problem. Yeah, I put them together because I didn't know if they would look bad one on top of the other on the key. I actually just wanted to get rid of them, because I never use them and they don't seem to be something you would look for in a numbers pad. Maybe a € sign or "Nr." or "a.m." and "p.m." would be more useful than brackets.

So, yes that was bugging me too. I'll paste a .txt file where they work with normal press and long press. If you find a more useful character, feel free to change things.

I'm glad my changes help you learn what all the values mean. Soon you'll be making changes like it's no big deal (which it really is no big deal). :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] alex.shastov:
Hello!

Somebody has corrected this problem?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] UKenGB:
I've seen quite a few requests for a CTRL key and I would like to add my name to that list. It's great having the Cut, Copy etc shortcuts, but it's missing one for CTRL A, i.e. Select All. This is simething I use so much it's a problem not having it. I know Home and End can be used to similar effect, but it's not as simple as CTRL A.

Could I set up a Smilie for CTRL A? I had a look at this for Smilie 1, but of course there's no way to include CTRL as part of the Action. Any way to get around that?

This is such a great add-on, it's a shame that an important key like CTRL has been omitted. Would it not be possible to include a CTRL key? The Space bar seems unnecessarily large, could that not be adjusted to provide room for CTRL?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
No, unfortunately that has not been resolved.

These options already exist. Open you Actions.txt file in the skins folder and make sure that all of these are included in there.

Action Cut OS:3:VK:04:0x11:VK:14:0x58:VK:06:0x11
Action Copy OS:3:VK:04:0x11:VK:14:0x43:VK:06:0x11
Action Paste OS:3:VK:04:0x11:VK:14:0x56:VK:06:0x11
Action Undo OS:3:VK:04:0x11:VK:14:0x5A:VK:06:0x11
Action SelectWord OS:5:VK:04:0x10:VK:04:0x11:VK:15:0x25:VK:06:0x11:VK:06:0x10
Action SelectLine OS:3:VK:04:0x10:HK:15:0x24:VK:06:0x10
Action SelectAll OS:3:VK:04:0x11:VK:14:0x41:VK:06:0x11

With those in place, you can now add any of these actions to any layout.

For example, this is what some of the keys on my german longkeys layout look like:

Key 56 185 49 87 2,2,8,2 key0 key1 y,_,Y,alles, SC:y,SC:_,SC:Y,[B]AC:SelectAll[/B]
Key 109 185 49 87 2,2,8,2 key0 key1 x,-,X,cut, SC:x,SC:-,SC:X,[B]AC:Cut[/B]
Key 162 185 49 87 2,2,8,2 key0 key1 c,",C,copy, SC:c,SC:",SC:C,[B]AC:Copy[/B]
Key 215 185 49 87 2,2,8,2 key0 key1 v,',V,einf SC:v,SC:',SC:V,[B]AC:Paste[/B]
Key 268 185 49 87 2,2,8,2 key0 key1 b,!,B,undo, SC:b,SC:!,SC:B,[B]AC:Undo[/B]

Notice that you simply call an action with the command AC: followed by the name of the action. It is important that the name be spelled exactly as it was defined (including capital letters). So, AC:Select

a

ll will not work, but AC:Select

A

ll will work.

So, there is not Ctrl key alone, but copy, cut, paste, undo, and select all should satisfy 99% of people's needs. :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] carteriii:
Has anyone here tried using FingerKeyboard with PocketInformant? I'm trying it on a Verizon Imagio/HTC Whitestone with WM 6.5, and have found that phone numbers (of contacts) cannot be entered with FingerKeyboard. FingerKeyboard allows me to enter the individual numbers just fine, and they display in the field as I'm typing them, until moving out of the field at which point the numbers completely disappear and the field appears blank. It simply loses all my data input. PocketInformant does validation of phone number formatting, so I suspect it could be related to that, but the behavior does not exist when using any of the other input methods (full querty, block, etc.).

I experienced this with the latest & greatest version of PocketInformant, 9.01. PocketInformant (http://www.pocketinformant.com/) does offer a two-week trial if someone cares to take a look but doesn't own a license.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] gruvngyrl:
In order to select all using ctrl+a, wouldn't you need to press and hold two buttons at once for it to complete the function? I admittedly don't know anything about it, but it seems like that'd require a phone with multi-touch capabilities, unless it was possible to program ctrl+a as a single button command.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
Yes, you'd probably have to make the ctrl key "stick" just like the shift key. Then you wouldn't have to press two keys at the same time. At least that is my assumption, since I also don't know much about it. But, I still think having it in one key (as described above) is faster.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] GRLW:
Problem with MDA Vario V (HTC TP2) and WM 6.5 (T-Mobile Germany)

On my MDA Vario V from T-Mobile (Germany) FingerKeyboard works fine with WM 6.1. Now I have updated to WM 6.5 (also relased by T-Mobile Germany) and the keys "Y" amd "Z" are swapped. So if i press "Y" I get "Z" and vice versa.

The layout is correct.

Any idea?

Gerhard
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
That's odd.

When you say "the layout is correct", do you mean the .txt file is properly coded? Can you upload it? It just sounds like the "character to display" and the "character to type" are not set to the same thing.

Which skin layout do you use? The default German one from installation? Does it happen with other layouts (e.g. English, German etc?)

You can test my German layout if you want (see my signature).
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] albyone:
How to uninstall Finger Keyboard

Hi there...

I was wondering if anyone knows how to uninstall this keyboard app? (HTC Imagio on Windows 6.5). I selected Finger Keyboard from the list of programs and selected "remove", but it leaves it in the list. I deleted all references to Finger in the registry and deleted all files/folders with the word Finger. I read that someone posted that they answered this question and to look for the post, but I can't find it anywhere.

Thank you for your help.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] hurtmarley:
Hello,

I have just installed wm 6.5 on my device and in this version I cant make copyright, trademark, .... symbol.

So I have installed FingerKeyb and I have to say that I like it very much but it would be perfect if there was special caraters too. Is there a method or a layout to do that?

thank you

ps : sorry about my english
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] GRLW:
I have already deinstalled FingerKeyboard. The layout is QWERTZ / YXCVB (German layout), when you type Z you will get Y and vice versa. All other keys seemed to work fine.

Is there a way to remap the keys?

Gerhard
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
You can edit the entire keyboard (using Notepad on your PC) and choose what characters you want and where you want them. I assume that the Y and Z were switched in the .txt file, where you tell Fingerkeyboard what to type. So, you might see a Y on the screen, but if the .txt file says to type a Z in that location, then you'll end up with your problem. Maybe someone edited an English keyboard to make it into a German one, and they only switched those two letter in the "display" section and not in the "write" section.

That's why I asked if you had a chance to look at the actual .txt layout in the skins folder.

If the .txt file is correct, then your problem would be some strange bug - possible related to the ROM and how it works with FKB. But it sounds really strange for it to be that. Never heard of that happening to someone.

I changed my digits layout, so that if you press shift, you see a lot of other characters you can type. Look at the pictures and read the info I wrote on them.

If a character you want is missing, just edit the .txt file and add your own character.

Keep in mind that most of those characters are unicode text and if you use them in an sms, they will cut the number of characters allowed per sms in half!!!

CAUTION: Make a

BACKUP!!!!

copy of your skin-02-wvga-port-01-digits.txt file

BEFORE

you overwrite it with mine. That way you can always copy your old one back if you don't like mine.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] GRLW:
I have reinstalled FingerKeyboard. Please have a look at the .txt-file. It seems to be ok. By the way: Landscape-Keyboard works fine.

Gerhard
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] DarkPrinceByWWW:
Thanks for this great idea and the txt file. Using it now with my Mod of BlackRed Skin :D

For not to overwrite files i just made two new skins, one for the normal keyboard and one for digits ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
I'm glad you like it. Yes, at first, I also made it as a separate skin, but then I wanted the convenience of having it in the digits layout. :)

I love that about FKB - every person can adapt it to their liking.

That file is fine. It's actually the one I created. :p

I have that same file and I just tested it and it works fine on my phone. I am using Dutty's Leo R6 ROM.

I wonder if your ROM is affecting anything.

Here is something to try.

I made a "test version" where I purposely swapped the typing command for the Y and Z, while leaving the display as QWERTZ. In other words, this test version in normal conditions would result in exactly the problem you are having. But since you are having the problem with the correct layout, let's see what it does with the test layout.

You can also try my German Longkeys version. It's the one I use all the time. It's based off the one installed my default, but I wonder if it will work for you.

Okay, here are both.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] GerooTech:
thanks alot for these keyboard, finally i got the names suggestioin in sms bye disabling T9 and restart.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] noofny:
set as default keyboard

thanks for a great tool! Is there a way to set this as the default keyboard so it auto starts? After every soft/hard reboot the default default keyboard comes up - means I have to manually run it from All Programs every boot.

cheers
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] GerooTech:
i am using sktools, also there is a tool calls SIPchange you can find it in the forums here, also you can edit the registry but first you have to get the ID of fingurekeyboard, to make it as default you can figure this out also by searching the forums
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] DarkPrinceByWWW:
Actually in the first or the second post of this fred you should find some info for your request. There are some tools like SIPchange and IM Selector that you could use. Only IM was working well on my device (TP2). Look here: SIPchange.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] noofny:
thanks

thanks guys - quick reply :-) will check out those links

i was expecting it wouldnt be as easy as ticking a checkbox! I notice other apps like MobileMagic set themselves up to auto-start...must be the developer doing stuff via the cab installer...

cheers again
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] alex.shastov:
Very very badly...

And how it is possible to contact developers?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
Both Exidler and Rozenthal are pretty busy, but they are well aware of this problem (it's been discussed here before). I don't know how much time Exidler has had to work on FKB the last few months. I'm sure when a fix is found, the original post will be updated.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] alex.shastov:
Let's hope that they will not find time for problem correction.

It is very a pity that such good product has such small defect.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] rsawoseyin:
I must say I am disappointed that we do not have a proper release of this otherwise excellent soft keyboard that has readily accessible arrow keys. It is very clumsy using it with, for example, HTC x7510 which has no hardware directional key. Has anyone been able to select, copy and paste text with this fingerboard on a device without hardware arrow keys?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] DarkPrinceByWWW:
Sure, i'm editing text files like this (copy+paste) every day without using my hardware keyboard.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
What do you mean?

You can totally adjust your layout to include arrows or not. You can use them directly in the keyboard, or you can choose to have them only in the digits layout or I even made an "arrows only" layout that you can switch to from you regular keyboard when needed.

You can also choose to include keys to copy, paste, cut, undo, tab, and select all. Use the skins in my signature or look at this post for instructions on how that works (the instructions for the "tab" entry are here). You can also go back a couple of pages and see where I posted a picture of my arrows-only layout (with txt file included).
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] GRLW:
Thanks a lot, the testversion works fine for me. Very strange ROM ...:rolleyes:
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
LOL - that is really strange. :eek:
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] noofny:
no good

nope - tried every available reccomendation to get the FingerKeyboard to select as default. Tried SIPChange, IMSelector, DefaultIMSelector and neuSIPDefault but all do nothing (tried all kinds of timeout settings and confirmed the shortcuts in startup are correct, even tried changing stuff in registry). These tools show the FingerKeyboard is selected as the default input, however the actual setting in settings gets locked to 'Keyboard' (Start > Settings > Personal > Input). Even if I select 'Compact QWERTY' when I reboot again 'Keyboard' is selected. FingerKeyboard stays selected once you select it but once you reboot its back to the ****ty 'Keyboard' - damn thats an awful keyboard!

Not until I uninstall FingerKeyboard does the input setting remember what I set it to.

How frustrating, this is clearly the best kb out. Does anyone get this problem on Touch HD with latest stock HTC rom? Actually could this be because I'm running stock (uncooked) rom?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] eskasi:
I have a really annoying problem since I updated to Dutty's R7 and R8 Leo roms on my HTC topaz.

Everytime I type a smilie or the "...", the cursor will jump back to immediately after the first character after the shortcut is pressed! ie. if I press the "...", after the fullstops are out, the cursor moves back to just after the first dot! I have to use the arrow keys to move them back to the end of the sentence! When I type a ";)" or a ":)", the cursor jumps back to the middle of the smilie and I have to use the arrows to move it again!

I have tried everything... hard resets, changed settings, etc... No luck. It is incredibly annoying! One thing I do realize, this ONLY happens with HTC's idiotic messaging application. It does not happen with window's email app or in the browsers....

Can someone PLEASE help me? I love this keyboard... MAINLY because of these programmable shortcuts!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
Man, that is annoying. Although I never had those exact problems, I did notice strange behavior sometimes when using different ROMs (even differences between Dutty ROMs). Luckily Dutty's latest HD Leo ROM works great. Maybe a future update for his Topaz Leo ROM will work better.

Until then, I could only recommend disabling the Manila message app and using the WM one. I know it's not a real solution, but unfortunately it does sound like in your case, you'll have to choose between Manila messaging app and FKB. :(

I don't think a stock rom would cause the problem, but I could be wrong.

Have you tried Camel's fixed version of SIPChange?

First, you should uninstall whatever SIPchange you have installed. Then use File Explorer to remove any SIPChange link in the \Windows\Startup directory if the link is still there.

Then, after a soft-reset, install the SIPChange_camel-fix.cab that I will attach below.

A delay setting of 40s works for me.

I hope this works for you.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] eskasi:
Thanks for the reply bro... sadly.... disabling the HTC messaging app also means disabling the link between contacts opening up messaging app directly... I will try fool around with it a little more. I have found that some shortcuts dont have this issue where others do... I think I could get by if I just remapped the keys that work with the shortcuts I use most frequently... ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
Yeah, it's strange. I don't know how it is with the Topaz, but on my HD, I have disabled manila sms app in the past (following all 4 of these manual steps). I noticed that if I just installed the cab (step 3 alone), it did not work properly, but it I followed all 4 steps, everything worked fine (i.e. link from contacts to send them a message etc was ok). I know of at least one more person with the same experience.

I don't know if those 4 steps (including the cab) will work on the Topaz. But maybe the registry entries are similar.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] eskasi:
Thanks pal! You have giving me a glimmer of hope.... I am gonna give it a shot... why not? I have done so many hard resets and flashing that it's not even painful anymore! ;)

I wish HTC would get it's act together in the messaging department.... I would hate to be the person in the company that designed this garbage.... his days are probably numbered

EDIT* I did it.. and although I can't send sms from my contacts list :( (clicking on message does nothing when contact page is open), on the Leo ROM, if I have shortcuts for messaging a contact added there, it will open the windows messaging app properly.... luckily in my case, I only sms just a few people regularly. Together with the mod to have 16 shortcuts instead of 9 on the home page, it is plenty for what I need... Hooray! now I have decent messaging again and my sent notification back!

I will be honest, I wouldn't mind the HTC app so much if it were not buggy and so slow... most of all, if it didn't mess with my FKB! ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
LOL

Yeah, there are things they can improve in their design. But I have to say, HTC has imo the best user interface for WM. I love Manila, and in the year I have been using it, I have seen some great improvements for ease of use.

I think with time, they'll tune up their messaging app.

I read an interesting suggestion in another thread. Placing a search bar and alphabet list in the music library view (just like in the contacts list) would make it easier to find a song - especially for people who have thousands of mp3 files on their phones.

So, let's hope the HTC improvements keep coming.

I also think of how much better FKB is today compared to when it first came out. :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] silver_fox:
thnx but i have a problem !!

can anyone help me in this ??!!

my phone is HTC-Touch and i installed this version

FingerKeyb-2.1-QVGA-arrows-Giannis86

thnx in advance
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
When do you get that error?

What ROM are you using?

Have you tried uninstalling, then soft-reset and then re-installing FKB?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] silver_fox:
This error when i am opening the program ..

Original rom ...

yes i did 2 times b4 !!

so .. do u have any clue !!

thnxxxxxxxx for ur concern :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
No, not sure what it is. :(

Have you tried installing either the other Giannis86 cab for qvga or the one from utak3er?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] noofny:
fixed / working / hazaaa!!

this may not be helpfull but i fixed many weird problems with this kb (and other 3rd party software bits) by replacing the stock HTC rom with a cooked one (RUU_Dutty's_HD_WM6.5_5.2.23016.5.0.3_R15) - now it works perfectly (not just this kb but a lot of other stuff too). Actually i was initially against changing the rom just from fear of bricking it, but following the tutorials here using USPL it took 15 mins and works 100%...am very impressed with the overall improvement. I've copied below the 3 short posts I read to understand how to do it - they're very clear and very accurate.

Step 1 - read & understad this;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=505377

Step 2 - read & understad this;

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3625567&postcount=272

Step 3 - read & understad this;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=524619
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] MarDor:
This keybord is so great!! :D

thank you very much!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] nandingmanuel:
landscape view

please help..

im using omnia 2 gt-i8000...and i installed fingerkeyboard 2.1 wvga....but it doesnt work on landscape view....i tried to hide it at portrait but still doesnt switch on at landscape view....im worried coz landscape messaging works using samsung keyboard....thanks in advance

nanding
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rami9:
FK2.1 with WM6.5 & Hebrew support

First and foremost, this is the best keyboard I saw!

I used it with WM6.1 with no issues, but when I installed WM6.5 ROMS I've started to experience the same problem over and over.

After some time the keyboard simply stalls and doesn't pop up - No keyboard at all. The only things that helps is soft reset.

Any ideas/suggestions what to do?

Thanks,

Rami

:confused:
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rami9:
My ROM is

Duttys HD WM6.5 R7
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] silver_fox:
anyone can help plzzzzzzzzzzzzz .. i cant change anything even the annoying sound on each click !!

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP :confused::confused::confused: