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[Touch HD Themes and Apps] JSchira:
Can't find the ctrl key

This is a great piece of programming and am enjoying it greatly.

I came across a bit of a quandry the other day though. I needed to select all of the text in a message I was composing. Usually I use the "ctrl a" key combination to accomplish that, but realized I couldn't find the keypress for the control "ctrl" key. Can someone tell me how or what key to press for ctrl? Thanks, much appreciated.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] DigiFred:
Very slick keyboard, but takes up a lot of resources (10% hit on program memory). Can't decide if I prefer my HTC Diamond to run faster or have the nice keyboard...
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] savepilot01:
Hi All,

I got this picture, do anyone one same as me?

Caps Lock

<Imput>

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

<Output>

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Long press in standard mode

:) than =0, :( than =9, :-[ than =-[, :-* than =-8, @ than 2, ! than 1, ":" than =, ? than /, "!?" than /,

Num pad

(=9,)=0,.=no respond(landscap),*=8
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] PREMOLIKES:
request

plz enable exit on pressing enter, also plz interchange enter and 123 button, plz do make the characters a bit larger.Im using gianni89 qvga with arrows.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] pyrobahne:
i love your fingerkeyboard, but there are two problems:

1. i can´t find the dot "." in the german layout. where is it? i had to switch to the english layout (or to numpad), then make the dot and back to german layout. that takes to much time i think. was it forgotten?

there are other keys on the layout that could be exchanged with the dot. for example: " ' " or " ; ".

2. i use wvgafix3. when i change the resolution for some games to 640x480, then i get an error from fingerkeyboard that there is no skin for that resolution. is it possible to make one cab-file which includes all skins from the fingerkeyboard (800x480, 480x800, 640x480, 480x640, 320x240, 240x320)?

thx for your answers
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] alex-000:
Great Application.

If i want to type "|" ????????
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
1. Read FAQ - "Spacebar"

2. I don't think so, because the file names that control stuff are same for all resolutions.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Read FAQ - "A special key I need is missing / Can I customize smiles / Can I change shortcuts?".
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
10%? Seems too much, you sure about this??? Perhaps you should check with Gianis in his VGA thread, I really don't see how could FKBD take 10% of your memory.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
FAQ - "How to use text selection?"
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
You will get biggest keys in English landscape mode.

We won't remove some of the keys you suggest because it would make some standard functions of the keyboard almost impossible to use.

Arrows may not be useful to you, but I believe that majority of people do need arrows for navigating around text and of course for text selection, copy / paste etc.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Pandemoniumone:
Agreed. The arrow keys are a must have as far as I'm concerned!

Absolutely loving this keyboard!!! The black ice skin is beautiful!

Thanks Again!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] 7floor:
Rozenthal, I'm sorry, but... would you like to comment please?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
We have this documented in Bug tracker for a full week now. It has been mentioned before, and as I said - we still don't know how to solve it.

For now, the problem goes away if you don't use "hide bottom bar" option in Config tool.

Also, this seems to be quite random - on some devices it never shows up, on some it shows up frequently. Personally, I had this issue on 2.0, but never saw it once on 2.1.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] victorinoxs:
please see

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3605315&postcount=302

&

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3606931&postcount=303
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Carrot81:
Hi... first of all I would like to compliment the developers of FGKB for doing such a good job. I have using it for about a week now and it had become default (and only) keyboard on my Omnia.

I do have a small request though, I saw from the screenshots (post #4) on the dedicated thread to Giannis86 VGA version that there is a customizable predefined TXT layout.

From the #1 post of this thread, I see that there is also a QVGA version (with and without arrows) with this "extra feature". However, there is none for the WQVGA version. Is this because the WQVGA version cannot support this function?

Sorry if this sounds stupid but I'm not a coder, so I'm not sure what can or cannot be done. But I would really like to have this feature on the WQVGA version for my Omnia though, it would really make typing all the standard sentences a lot easier.

Thanks!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] 7floor:
Rozenthal, victorinoxs

Thank you for hints and sorry, I had to read entire thread before duplicating bug report.

Hope some time this bug will be isolated and fixed :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] korbi:
I completely second that opinion. This are the exact same things missing for me. And this means for me: back to touchpal, too.

But still a great keyboard, but doesnt match my idea of a finger-keyboard...

Greetz

Korbi
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] cpasoft:
Hello ...

I have one suggestion and one question...

Suggestion: If you try to fill the shortcuts tab or Smiles tab, the 5th and 6th options are not visible with the keyboard :D. You must write like a blind person :rolleyes:

Question: With another keyboards (Diamond keyboard, for example) if you go to start->settings->personal->Owner Information and you scroll the page until you can see Telephone box (and you cannot see the begging of address box) and you click on the lower of the address box, the page automatically scroll to the begging. With Finger this is not working... Is any way to fix it??

Regards... :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Bisis:
Is possible to set this keyboard for some specific apps like word and use for example phonepad for other ones? Is there a registry tweak to do this?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
The feature you mention is something Giannis made for his VGA crew over at Diamond thread. Since it was completed pretty much simultaneously with our official WVGA and WQVGA versions, there was no time for us to check it out and decide if we will implement it.

As far as the support goes - there is absolutely no reason why it could not be done for WVGA / WQVGA. In fact, you can do it yourself if you want to. It's just a skin txt file.

However, I'm already contemplating in making something similar to current custom shortcuts / smiles, but it would take up a whole separate layout. Probably 3 rows of very large buttons that would be fully programmable through Config tool. Perhaps they would not even have a "long-press" action, just single press. I will do some sketches and tests and see what would be the best approach. This is of course something that may come in next version.

How long before the next version... Well, don't expect it too soon. We're quite happy with the v2.1, other versions will probably be small improvements, until we think up of some new revolutionary ideas again :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Very good point, we'll have to add a scroll bar there. Thanks for the warning!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
I suppose such an app could work in theory.

If it exists or not - I don't know, sorry.

And I don't think registry would do it, I think it would have to be an app that would control what SIP get's opened for what situation / application.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] A&A:
I would like to assign to the key which is between Shift and the spacebar the "Delete" (Del) command, can somebody please explain how to do that?

Tnx :)

PS: Am I the only one who misses a "Del" key in this keyboard?!?!?!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] cpasoft:
I'm glad to help... :)

... what about my other question?? have you tested it??
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Bisis:
I saw that using original HTC keyboards if I choose phonepad for sms' in portrait and full keyboard in landscape the device changes keyboard each time I rotate the screen... so in portrait it use phonepad and in landscape the other one. So this info is written somewhere
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Ah, yes, but that's a single HTC SIP, that has different layouts. I'm not sure if you can do this for two separate SIP's, especially with 3rd party keyboard.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] MAMeingast:
Opera hiding FingerKeyboard

Hi there!

I love FKB and it has worked without any problems whatsoever - until now! Sadly I have an issue with FKB on Dutty's 2.8 (not sure, if it's ROM related): In Opera, FKB sometimes doesn't show up when tapping the address bar! And since there is no symbol at the bottom of the screen to toggle the keyboard in Opera, I can't get it to show up! :(

Any ideas?

If this has been covered somewhere, I couldn't find the corresponding threads/posts!

EDIT: I think Opera's window is covering the keyboard... when I close Opera I see the keyboard for a moment before it disappears!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
I didn't understand your question well, that's why I didn't answer.

Tried reading it again more carefully, and I have to say I still don't quite get it, but whatever it is, I doubt we could offer you a solution. Probably something about default SIP that enables such behavior.

AFAIK, FingerKeyb does not have a way to scroll pages automatically.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
I'll have to check with Exidler about this. I'm guessing you would have to announce the appropirate action in global action txt file, and then use it in layout. But I do not know the correct line for it atm.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] cpasoft:
Yes, I know... My english is soooo bad.. :p

I'll try again... :)

==================

With another keyboards (Diamond keyboard, for example) if you go to start->settings->personal->Owner Information and you scroll the page until you can see Telephone box (and you cannot see the begging of address box) and you click on the lower of the address box, the page automatically scroll to the begging. With Finger this is not working... Is any way to fix it??

With other keyboards, if you go, for example, to start->settings->personal->Owner Information and move down the screen to hide the title "address", if you click on the address box, the screen automatically goes up. With the FingerKeyb that does not happen ...

Maybe a screenshot will be useful...

With FingerKeyb:

With Diamond Keyboard:

Did you understand?...

Best regards... ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Carrot81:
Rozenthal,

Thanks! I'm also happy with v2.1, but I'll still be looking forward to the next version :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Swampthing777:
hey guys, I see that you've put a lot of thought and hard work into this project so first off... thanks!

I have been looking for a good keyboard and I've used many different types on my Sprint HTC Touch Diamond.

I've flashed it with the Mighty ROM and the Telus radio so you know the software I'm dealing with.

My problem is that there is lag between the pressing of the button and the charactar's appearance on the screen.

I've tweaked the time delay for the pop up to "zero" and reduced the hold time to "150ms" but there is still a fraction of a second's lag. This is a problem that I have encountered with the landscape screen orientation on the SPB keyboard as well.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks again!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Bisis:
I saw another thing regarding FingerKeyboard2. I usually use this keyboard in number mode for calendar (I write all mornings kms o my car). Even if I use keyboard in full mode or phonepad, hd remember that when I open calendar I prefer to use fingerkeyboard in number mode... so where this info is written??? I really can't understand! I looked at registry but haven't found anything useful!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] MAMeingast:
Hi!

I finally found a solution to this problem! As you have already stated, some of us have to install the T9Disable.cab to get SMS name suggestion to work - but that also activates word suggestion everywhere else. Usually this means english word suggestion. But I have found a way to change the language of the words suggested.

You have to replace three files on your device with the ones corresponding to your language. They are all located in the \Windows\ directory and you have to use Resco Explorer or Total Commander to be able to replace them. They are called:

dictprobX.dat

statdictX.dat

mssp2X.dat

The X stands for possible additions to the filename. F.e. on Dutty's V2.8 they're called dictprob.0409.dat, statdict0409.dat and mssp2.lex. They could be called slightly different on a different ROM!

You have to replace these files with the ones off a ROM in the language you want to have! The tricky part is getting these files... Search around google, if you're lucky, you'll find a site offering these files. I found the German ones here: http://www.ppc-welt.info/community/showthread.php?t=85198&highlight=hades. If you can't find them, you would have to extract them from a ROM yourself - don't ask me, how that is done! I have no idea! ;) Since mssp2X.dat often has the language in the filename, it could help to search for this file in the corresponding form (mssp2_ge.lex for German, mssp2_fr.lex for French) and often you will find forum threads where not only this file is discussed, but the other .dat files as well.

Once you have acquired these files, rename to the exact name these files have in the ROM you're using and copy them to the \Windows\ directory. Restart the device and voilà: You have changed the language of the suggested words!

I haven't tested this yet, but maybe you can disable word suggestion by providing empty files???
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] MAMeingast:
@ Rozenthal:

I have a question and a suggestion:

1. Is there any file I could backup to keep my settings in FingerKeyboard after hard-resetting? Or a registry key?

2. Please add the ability to "select all" and "select none" on the Main page of the FingerKeyboard Config! It's really annoying to have to check every language... ;)

Thanks!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] stoptime:
Hi, Dude. Just tried your keyboard, it's awesome. However, as I'm a Chinese user, I couldn't find a way to switch to my Chinese input. There should be a small triangle by the side of the IME mark, but can't find one.

Any idea? Thx a lot again for the work you done. Splendid.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] cpasoft:
Some body could check this ??

Thanks for this new version... It's working all right in my Diamond (except for this silly bug)...
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Kraize:
I have a request. I'm dead with this :| HTC decided to drop compact qwerty from the new EzInput. I'm going to be moving on to a new device, but sadly, I'll be stuck with only qwerty or keypad. Is there anyway you could make a compact qwerty style keyboard for portrait? And does this work with xT9?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] MrKaon:
Persian (Farsi) Skin

Persian (Farsi) Language for this lovely keyBoard
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] doggyxxx:
Hi, thank you so much for the great job. The keyboard is really a great improvement of the traditional one. I've been using it for about a month, and I've just have one question about it. When you press and hold some of the keys, it will change from say giving you a letter to a puntuation mark. But I found some of the punctuation marks do not appear as it shuold be. For examples, when I press and hold the small letter "m" key, it should give me a "question mark". But it gives me a "slash" instead, or when I press and hold the "n" key, it was supposed to give me a "!?" mark, but it gives me "1" instead. I'm not sure if it is just my problems as it seems no users have ever raised similar questions. Hope someone can advise.

Thanks!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] netsurfz:
It is already be the best WinMo keyboard! Let see how much better it gets!!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] KukurikU:
i am speechless:D a professional job for free! T H A N K Y O U!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] adrynalyne:
Am I missing something, or was it a design decision to not include qwerty in portrait for WQVGA?

I've tried just about every key imagineable trying to switch from numeric and qwerty and I can't seem to get it done. In landscape, I just hit the EN language key, but I don't have that key in portrait.

Also, is WhiteIce supposed to look like this? I understand different layouts, small differences, etc. but this one is pretty huge from the video and screenshots. I tried reinstalling, and then I checked the cab file itself, and those are the graphics for it, so I am guessing this was a design decision.

I love this keyboard, otherwise. BlackIce looks awesome and works perfectly, if I could just get it to go into qwerty mode in portrait.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Pandemoniumone:
This is not an issue for me. Did you completely uninstall V2.0 before you installed the new V2.1?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] justaguy17:
is anyone else having problems using sms-chat with this keyboard?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Pandemoniumone:
I was just wondering what happens when you press and hold the "123" key? Might that change it to the qwerty layout?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] adrynalyne:
I tried that originally, and unfortunately it does not do anything :(

I even went so far as to reinstall it, making sure that the folder was deleted, and no (obvious) entries in the registry. Reinstalling had the same effect.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] JLowe:
absolutely fine update! very easy to configure and the layouts are as big as possible to fit on the screen.

It's a real Fingerkeyboard! Thank you!!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] htctoucher:
wow!

you really spent some time making this keyboard really look professional!

you present it so well

truly amazing work cant wait to try it out on qvga tomorrow ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] fantasies:
2 wrong keys

Hi, I have a problem on the Danish keyboard,

If I press "k", I get a "j", and if I press "l" I get a "k", all other keys are fine.

Can anyone help?

I use your program on a Touch HD, with Dutty 2.6
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] great:
I have mad a specific landscape layout for my needs on the v2

Will it work with the new version ??
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] sonusfaber:
I encountered the same problem too on my Omnia in the potrait mode. I tried selecting another language besides English (e.g. de), and only then could I switch to text. However, the layout looks different from the video, e.g. there's no dedicated key for the period.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] wakedmichel:
Hi, Thank you for this gret keyboard, i uninstalled version 2 today and installed the new version, as described post 1, but don't have space on the main memory so i installed in my storage on the samsung omnia, and in the setting i ticked the english and russian languages, after restarting the device i opened and it worked but no english layout only russian, if i click the language layout button it change to numeric digits but no english, i unticked the russian and kept the english, after restarting i have only the numeric pad no alphabet layout... i don't know where is th problem as i uninstalled it and reinstalled again and still the same problem, any help please...

Thanks in advance..
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] antrak:
working great. Takes a lot of getting used to though as it is quite a change from V2.0. Great nonetheless!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Drekonai:
Great job :D Thx!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] utak3r:
MAMeingast:

Save your skin-01-*.txt files and you'll be done.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Lefti:
So any feedback on the opera landscape problem?if there was an answer i seem to have missed it
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] A&A:
I have tried to guess and edited the line of the "skin-02-qvga-port-01-eng.txt"

(since I do not use the landascape layout I generally edit only the portrait txt files)

file to:

Key 31 100 28 20 1,1,4,1 key9 Del1 ,DEL,,ACTION.Delete

but that did't work :(

... This is how I edited/customized all the other keys... But for this one it did not work as the Delete command was nowhere else for me to copy... Hope you are following me ;)

Looking forward to get some feedback about the correct line so that I can finally get off everybodys' back on this amazingly busy (and very interesting) thread :D:D:D

Thanks again :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] utak3r:
put in globals:

Action DeleteKey	VK:14:0x2E

and then use it:

Action.DeleteKey

:)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] A&A:
Dziękuję bardzo ;)

Unfortunately it did not work :(

Are you sure in global and not in actions? It looks more like an actions command... Anyway I tried BOTH global and actions and no luck!

Can you please be more clear about this? Do I have to put them in a specific place/line or just anywhere?

I inserted Action.DeleteKey in skin-02-qvga-port-01-eng.txt and the line now looks like this:

Key 31 100 28 20 1,1,4,1 key9 lng1 ,del,,	Action.DeleteKey

Is that correct?

Dziękuję moim przyjacielem :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] utak3r:
To be exact: you can put it almost everywhere ;)

try inserting in the skin file itself before ResolutionBegin keyword...

To be honest: I haven't try it ;) but it SHOULD work... now I can't check, maybe in the evening...
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] A&A:
Ok, I have tried that = not working either :(

Please test (when you can) and let me know... THANKS A LOT :D

This is how my keyboard looks like [as you can see from the uploaded image I have made some "re-skinning" and most importantly I have resized the qvga size to 240 x 130 (240 x 150 original) since on a 320x240 screen every pixel counts]:
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Bartu:
Delete key - working

you need to add line:

Action DeleteKey	VK:14:0x2E

to the "actions" file.

And then in your language skin file you need to put it in the line of your chosen key. In my skin for eng in WQVGA it looks like that:

Key 215 35 25 31 1,1,4,1 arr2 wid1 ,Del,,Del ACTION.DeleteKey

it was my first try, when i putted it instead of right-arrow-key in landscape mode, and it worked perfect.

The only problem is that when you assign Action to a key, it is the only thing it can do, in normal/shifted pressed/hold mode. If you want few different actions for chosen key, you have to add them properly to the actions-file in the created DeleteKey line.

Of course you need to remember about "reseting" your keyboard, by changing to i.e. samsung keyboard, and back to the FingerKeyb.

If you need more help with it, you can also write me a PM .

And sorry to everyone for my bad english.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] MAMeingast:
Thank you! =D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] A&A:
Dziękuję bardzo!!!

Not quite the same on my skin but with your (very clear) explanation I managed to fix my .txt files and now I have a PERFECTLY WORKING "Delete" Key!!!

Thanks again, my friend :D

Over & out :)

B&B
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Dewidh77:
Thanks for this application.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Like I said:

"you would have to announce the appropirate action in global action txt file, and then use it in layout."

Glad you finally got it solved with a bit of help from our friends here!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Yeah, I understand it now. Thank you for the explanation.

Unfortunately, I have no idea why it don't work like that with FingerKeyboard.

I guess this one will be on Exidlers list to check for the next version. I can't say if we can do anything about this, but we will take a look definitively. Hope you can live with it for now :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Since you mention you experienced same behavior with other keyboards, I would guess it has something to do with available memory or perhaps that specific ROM. There could also be a bunch of other reasons for this, but I really can't say since I'm neither familiar with the ROM or device you're using.

I think you should ask other users who use FingerKeyb on Sprint HTC Diamond with the same ROM if they have the same issue.