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[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
I am not sure how to fix your problem (but look at the option at the end of my post); however, I know that you can change some of those settings directly in the skin folder. Note: You'll have to copy those files to your PC to edit them using Notepad, then you can copy them over to your phone and overwrite the existing ones.

Edit the skin-01-global.txt file in Notepad to set whether or not you want the click sound and other things.

This is what my skin-01-global.txt looks like:

LogLevel 1
ReloadOnHide 0
HoldTime 250
HoldRepeats 0
HoldRepeatTime 150
SelectedTimeout 0
ClickVibrate 40
ClickSound *none*
DefaultLayout eng
DefaultSip Full QWERTY, Touch Input, Samsung Keyboard, Keyboard
SelectedOpacity CSCHEME.SelectedOpacity
CScheme TaskbarSize 52

You can also edit the skin-01-shortcuts.txt and skin-01-smiles.txt to set your own shortcuts and smileys to be used in the keyboard. The top line of that shows you what will be displayed on those keys, while the following line shows you the action that will be taken (in other words, what will be typed).

I know this is no solution to your error, but it might help you adjust some of the settings that you are unable to get to at this moment.

Also, I will attach a FKB config file and a dll file that I had saved from another user you had a qvga resolution. Maybe yours are somehow corrupt. You could try using these to overwrite your current ones - BUT BACKUP YOUR CURRENT ONES FIRST - just in case. They are located in the Fingerkeyboard installation folder. I have no idea if it will work for you. I'll leave it up to you to decide if you want to try them. Do a soft-reset after you overwrite them.

Let me know how it goes if you try it.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] silver_fox:
thnxxxxxx a lot ..

I don't know what to do with the attached file .. i tried to copy it to my htc but when i opened it it gave me the same error !! should i do something else ?!

I tried to edit the txt as u explained .. it works and I've changed the sound and vibration settings .. but i am still wondering why this error occurred with me only !!

do u have any idea how to change the skin .. and how can i remove the txt on space bar (fingerkbdr2) .. also .. i want just to enable the english and arabic lang. only and disable others and finally .. how to disable the arrows below the keyboard.

can i do this by ur method !!

thnxxxxxxxx a lot for helping .. i really appreciate it :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] silver_fox:
look i found this also in another forum:

QUOTE(hackers-inc @ Mar 2 2009, 13:51)

" An Expected error has occurred in FngKbdConfig.exe

Select quit and then restart this program, or select details for more information."

Thats the error when I try to press the finger keyboard in program files...

Any help..?

TIA

**EDIT

I reinstalled the program. Instead of replacing the files, I just manually edited the corresponding files and it worked. Almost no editing at all.

reply:

This happens because the files are named wrong. Dont use the "types" file and rename the digits and "eng" replacing all the "_" with "-". So in conclusion only use 2 of the 3 files and you will need to rename them.

do u thing it may help?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] noofny:
stupid question

is there any way to have the arrow keys not in the middle when on landscape, like over the to the right on the htc qwety one?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
Yes, but it means either editing a layout yourself or using a layout that someone else made. I don't know if someone made a landscape layout with the arrows on the right side. I made XL landscape skins where the keys are bigger and there are no arrows. You can use that, and then just switch to the digits pad when you need arrows. You'd have to search this thread to see what other layouts people have made.

The easiest thing is probably just to adapt a layout to your liking. You can see my signature for a tutorial on editing skins or to try out any of my skins.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] tzha:
T9 on omnia i900

I'm also using the 2.1 version (WQVGA) on Omnia i900.

It works great aside from the fact that I cannot get any T9 or word suggestion working (not the Omnia one and not the Microsoft Mobile one).

If anyone has an idea how to get it to work, please post it.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] silver_fox:
I dont know even wht tht mean !! ,, but no problem .. tht's fineee

thnxxxxxxxxxx again .. i really appreciate all ur help .. thnx :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
The values I used were an example, but if you apply the principle, it will work for all resolutions.

First of all, you don't need to change anything in the layout other than adding a "Size" command at the top. That's it, nothing else. What you did was edit the "Fill" command at the top instead of adding a "Size" command.

Maybe looking at it this way will make it easier to understand. You see that the row of arrows starts at a vertical/height position of 134 (remember position 0 is at the top and you start counting toward the bottom, and a value tells you where the top edge of a row

begins

). So, make the keyboard height end at 133. That way it is not tall enough to show the row of arrows that begins at 134.

Your idea of changing something to 101 did not account for the keys in that row. You would have ended up hiding the last two rows.

So, the only thing you have to do is

add

"Size 240 133" as shown here:

ResolutionBegin 240 320

LayoutBegin eng

DisplayName EN

Size 240 133

Fill 0 0 240 199 CSCHEME.BgColor

Save the txt file, copy it over to your phone, reload Fingerkeyboard and you're all done.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] silver_fox:
i told u .. ur genius :D

thnxxxxxxxxxx man :o
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] marcdewilde88:
Works ****ing Great
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] myfoka:
Greek language support

Hi,

i am new here and i tryed to read all this msgs about the FingerKeybord but i am still at the beginning, so i wanted to ask you right away.

I am about to buy HTC HD2 with english language and would like to ask you how can i have also greek language support in the appl. but not as a OS language, just for the Contacts, SMS, ... can i just install this nice FingerKeyboard for greek language?

Thanks in adv.

Foka
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Martinhdk:
Question;

Is it possible to make the "POPUP" of the pressed letter stay for longer time.

In the new OperaMini Beta 5, the pressed letter on the keyboard stay open for longer time, and makes it a lot easier to see what you write. Very smart.

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Are there any keyboard skins with bigger buttons, like the normal HTC input keyboard?

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[Touch HD Themes and Apps] DarkPrinceByWWW:
You can set the popup time in the settings: "Popup time" :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] DarkPrinceByWWW:
Actually you can just install the English version of FK2 (afaik there is only the English version available). After the installation you'll have to set the skin and the language in the options, so you could just use the English and the Greek language but select the both layouts. You'll be able to switch between this layouts by touching the language button on the FK2 ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
I'll just add to what DarkPrinceByWWW wrote. His tip tells you how to use Fingerkeyboard's Greek layout after intalling the program.

I just wanted to say that if you get the HD2 in English, you will likely be able to adjust the registry so that Manila (i.e. HTC Sense interface) is in Greek.

It might depend on the ROM that comes with the HD2, but it is very likely, that all the languages are there to be selected. You will still have Windows Mobile in English (you can't change that unless you flash another ROM), but the HTC interface language can be changed.

Go to the following Registry location:

HKeyCurrentUser/MUI/ curlang and change the value to the language you want (see list below). English is 409, but if you want Greek, change it to 408. If you decide you don't like it in Greek, just change it back to 409. After each change, you will need to either restart Manila (WM settings >> Today) or soft-reset the phone for the changes to take effect.

Here is a list of the different values for the various languages (in case other people are interested).

0401 Arabic ARA.MUI
0402 Bulgarian BG.MUI
041a Croatian HR.MUI
0405 Czech CS.MUI
0406 Danish da.MUI
0413 Dutch (Standard) NL.MUI
0425 Estonian ET.MUI
040b Finnish FI.MUI
040c French (Standard) FR.MUI
0407 German GER.MUI
0408 Greek EL.MUI
040d Hebrew HEB.MUI
040e Hungarian hu.MUI
0410 Italian IT.MUI
0411 Japanese JPN.MUI
0412 Korean KOR.MUI
0426 Latvian LV.MUI
0427 Lithuanian LT.MUI
0414 Norwegian no.MUI
0415 Polish pl.MUI
0416 Portuguese (Brazil) Br.MUI
0816 Portuguese (Standard) PT.MUI
0418 Romanian RO.MUI
0419 Russian RU.MUI
0804 Simplified Chinese CHS.MUI
0c0a Spanish (Modern Sort) ES.MUI
041b Slovak SK.MUI
0424 Slovenian SL.MUI
041d Swedish SV.MUI
041e Thai TH.MUI
0404 Traditional Chinese CHH.MUI
041f Turkish TR.MUI
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] secc123:
ervius kitchen

Hi all, I am having trouble cooking thsi using evk. I have converted the cab to oem and added it to ext folder. It will cook fine and works but the extra skins aren't being added, The skins dir is being created in wm6.5 but the same skin (ice) is being copied to each of the skin folders (blackblue/blackgrey etc etc).

The files in ext folder are: app.reg/app.dat/files folder with ice skin in and skins folder with each skin in own dir (blackblue/blackgrey etc etc). why aren't my other skins being added to the rom?

thanks,

Secc
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] RFOX100:
tpc roms?

i tryed so many rooms with so many dif radios but the only rom thats work good wirh finger keyboard is the tpc v11 rom

but the only problem with him is that the battery drain fast.

no perfect rom?

my cellphone is tytn2 kaiser

i use 2.1 version

and radio 1.70.19

and i tryed all the radio but its a rom thing
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] 4D3:
Hi,

can i ask, what version of fingerKB do i need to install for this to work for VGA?

FingerKeyb-2.1-VGA-arrows-Giannis86.cab

or

FingerKeyb-2.1.1 VGA by Giannis86.cab

thanks in advance

MG
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] DarkPrinceByWWW:
Hi hi :) It actually doesn't depend in the version with or without the arrow buttons since my last version of the ModSkin contains all files and graphics you may need. It also doesn't overwrite any files. The drawback is that you cannot use other (languages-)layouts in combinations to my ModSkin.

Last version (v0.3) you will find on pocketpc:

http://www.pocketpc.ch/software-touchscreen/66092-skin-fingerkeyboard-v2-1-blackredmod.html

I'll update the post in my signature for the new version.

The only thing that may happen is that the keyboard will be a way to high, because i was editing the skin on my WVGA device. Just try and report :) i would like to see the skin running well also on vga device :)

Edit: If you wanna use this skin in combination with other layouts, so it depends on your desire to be able to use arrow buttons or not. My ModLayout contains arrow button, so you have to install a normal FK2 cab and not the one without buttons (actually its the same, the only difference is the layout.txt file :) ). If you don't wanna have arrow buttons in your skin, you will have to remove them manually from my ModLayout file ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] 4D3:
Hi,

ill test VGA for you, do you have a vga version of v0.3? (there is no point in me using the v0.3 for wvga as the keyboard will be in the wrong place.

thanks

MG

p.s. arrows are fine!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] DarkPrinceByWWW:
I have no vga version. If you wish, u can make a vga version. There is actually not really many changes have to be done :D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] arlievsky:
HTC Diamond2 6.5 HTC Rom

Hi,

Just tried to install 2.1 WVGA version on official 6.5 ROM on Diamond2.

After successful installation configurator fails with exception "not supported platform".

Is it well known problem or I should do something differently ?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] bullinthechinashop:
Every time I try to download this I get an attachment.php file instead of the .cab file
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Pandemoniumone:
If you're trying to download the WVGA version, try this one.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] bullinthechinashop:
Thanks but my download manager (down them all) was acting up. I downloaded it directly through firefox with no problems.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Pandemoniumone:
Yes, I use Firefox as well and rarely have issues with it. Glad you got it sorted out :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Martinhdk:
Hey

Working on my first skin, but have a quezz:

Is it possible to link another skin but "132" and "nextlayout" from a button?

What are "2,2,8,2" referring to. I can see it changes the placement on buttons but what are the details?

Key 2 138 47 70 2,2,8,2

Is there any detailed description about all features - have not been able to find any but some parts in the thread?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
I have thought about that in the past and have thought about mentioning it to Rozenthal and Exidler. It would be really nice.

As far as I know, there is no way to directly link a specific skin to a given key. Of course, the nextlayout moves you along the skins you have activated, but that's not the same.

That is the one part of the skin that I don't really know what it does. I never change it anyway, but I have also been curious as to what exactly it does. In smaller resolutions, it changes to 1,1,4,1 (half the value), but that is the only change I have seen.

Do you mean regarding the features that FKB offers? Rozenthal made a video (youtube) showing the keyboard, but other than that, I don't think there is anything else.

In terms of creating your own layout, I wrote a

very basic

tutorial (see my signature), but I have been considering making a video tutorial that better explains how to make you own layout. I'm a bit pressed on time, so I don't know when I will complete that project. :)

Another thing I wish I understood is the way you code things in the Actions. I have no clue how you determine or use specific ASCII codes and VKeys etc... I feel that if I knew more about that, I could be more creative with the layouts and bring new features into FKB. Maybe someone who knows about that can help me out or point me in the right direction??

And still another desire of mine (for a long time now) has been to have a small app that will create custom layouts so that we don't have to manually edit everything in Notepad. It would be nice to have boxes where you could enter the info such as keyboard size, resolution, location of keys, what each key will type in normal, shift, hold, and shift-hold, bmp images to use etc. and then have the app created a txt file with the proper coding. I would want it to import skins for editing and of course also export skins for layout creation.

But again, I have no clue about programing - so all these ideas of how it could be laid out and so on, will likely never be put into practice - at least not without the help of someone who knows how to create applications. Hint-hint..... does anyone out there feel up for the challenge? :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Martinhdk:
Thx for the answer.

If you change "2,2,8,2" to "8,8,8,8" you will that the letters on button either move close to middle or move away - but I have not yet found out how they work in details.

Yup - an app for skinning/button layouts would be very cool.

Do you know what font is used on EZinput - would like to try that
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] konidair:
First of all thanx for this awesome keyboard!

I have a couple of minor problems though(i don't know if this has been asked before):

If i select the greek layout i get "k" instead of "κ" and when i press some vowels with the accent i get also a comma after the letter(e.g. press "έ" and it shows "''έ,")

Is there any way i can fix this minor bugs so i can have the perfect keyboard? :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
No, unfortunately I don't know what font it uses. Maybe you can ask in a ROM development thread. They might know there.

You need to edit your greek layout file. There appear to be some mistakes on it. Find the txt file on you phone, copy it over to your PC to edit with notepad. Then copy finished file back to the phone.

Look at the link in my signature for a basic tutorial on editing skins.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Martinhdk:
Do you know if we have access to the original graphics used for skins?

I am not good in Photoshop, so I would like to use the original (with layers and more)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chris Cross:
No, the only one who has that is Rozenthal, since he created those images.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] ladios:
About CJK languages support / Request of ImmSetConversionStatus function

I'm currently working on the Chinese layout. After a series of experiments, I can almost conclude that the current version of FingerKeyboard does not, or hardly, support input of languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. The problem is that FingerKeyboard is not able to change the language status that Microsoft calls it the conversion mode.

Our IME is basically a QWERTY soft keyboard but additionally with a switch at the corner for turning the according input method on or off, and this is what i mean the language status. When it is turned on, IME won't send characters directly to the text area. Instead, it treats them as codes of a word. It waits for a SPACE indicating a word's combination of codes is completed, and then sends the word to the text area.

The default IME does receive the characters sent by FingerKeyboard and combines them to words when input method is on. What goes wrong is that when it is off, FingerKeyboard cannot turns it on. So I have to switch my SIP to the default IME in order to do so, and then switch the SIP back to FingerKeyboard! Moreover, when it is on, FingerKeyoard can only input capital letters, because the default IME sees the lowercase characters it sent as codes. Then everytime I want to switch language, I switch SIP first...

I have tried to use FingerKeyboard to send all the possible hot keys supposed to switch the language status, including those stated in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys, but they just don't work at all. Even they do, the language status should be better switched to the right one by the time FingerKeyboard is shown or the layout is switched to.

I spent some time digging the MSDN and found that the funciton ImmSetConversionStatus, which can alter the IME Conversion Mode Values, is most likely to do the job. Would the authors of FingerKeyboard please provide the function i mentioned in the next version?

Thanks!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Martinhdk:
How do I change:

- Background to transparent

- font used on buttons. Have tried to change it to Helvetica in "skin-00-sheme-GrayGreen", but no luck. (Do I have to install he font)

"CScheme Name	GrayGreen

CScheme GfxDir	GrayGreen

CScheme FontNormal	000000 Helvetica 36 700

CScheme FontHold	9b9b9b Helvetica 20 700

CScheme FontSelected	ffffff Helvetica 42 900

CScheme FontSelHold	cfcfcf Helvetica 30 500

CScheme BgColor	8c8a8c

CScheme SelectedOffset	5

CScheme SelectedOpacity	220

CScheme BgColor	opacity 500"
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] konidair:
i followed your instructions, i found and transferred the greek txt file but the "κ" letter appears ok on my Pc.I also tried to overwrite it but i always get "k" :(
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Wiggz:
just FYI - it's working now...reset my device and tried WVGA again and it seems to be working..weird - in the way of feedback..I have yet to make one single speeeeelling (heh)mistake with my fingers whilst typing so that's a plus :)

Love the shortcuts.......and it's free - good work that man (men!)!!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
We know about this, it's been around for a while. It's something related to Opera as I recall it. Exidler tried to fix it to best extent possible, but this bug is looking like it's here to stay.

However, normal deleting 1 by 1 should work normally.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Well, the install instructions do say you should reboot after installation :) Glad it's working now, enjoy it!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Strange. I have been using it on HD, as well as many many other people, and never had this problem. Could it be that you have T9 enabled? Or maybe some other 3rd party keyboard installed?
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Rozenthal:
Hello,

sorry to say this, but the answer is flat and simple - no.

We can't provide you with phone-dialer style keypad or T9. However, I can say that in my personal non-scientific tests I have better typing speed using FKBD then when using normal hardware 0-9 keypad.

If your fingers are that big, I suggest you try using it in English landscape mode - it has very big keys.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] sreel:
Ive got the same problem. i dont know what cab to download for my touch hd.

i tried the version 2.1.1 VGA out, but i get that "skin resolution" error, and when i want to start the keyboard in an messaging tool it crashes the smartphone -_-

plz help
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] salvy.c.83:
italian qvga

Very good work!

it's incredible!

This is my old (2.0) Skin for the Italian (starting from wqvga), if it can be useful for the development of Version 2.1 QVGA for Italians!

Thank you very much!

:D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Wiggz:
The cab you require is the one which uses the 480 x 800 resolution which in our case is WVGA - download this, run it, and reset the device after configuring the keyboard. the finger keyboard should then work fine :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] mr_deimos:
Thanks for the update. The new version works on the Toshiba G900 (WVGA). However there's a bit of a problem with the vibration feature. It just doesn't work. I guess you used winapi call to light a led to run the vibra. But the problem is that not all devices have the vibration motor connected to the same LED port. So it would be nice to configure the address of vibra motor. Of course it would make life easier if this setting was preconfigured for some devices (there is a lot of info about that in touchResponse thread), but even being able to set it somewhere in a config file or in the config utility should be enough.

Also, a feature request/proposal about the vibration feedback: how about a bit more configurable events? It would be nice to set different vibra time (or no vibra) at:

*initial keypress

*key release

*special character triggering

and maybe:

*key changed (when you slide your finger around the keyboard without triggering the special chars)

The same event-based config options would be helpful for sounds as well.

Another thought - does the configurator have to close itself after hitting apply? It takes a while to load, so checking skins or making adjustments takes a bit longer than it has to ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] sreel:
oh yes :D pferfect, thank you very much, it works with the wvga cab :)

very nice tool, thanks for creating this
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] MAMeingast:
Also, you could use one of the XL-Skins found somewhere on this forum - they have even bigger keys and work fine with 2.1!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] cpasoft:
Ok... I just wanted to know if you know this silly bug... :o

Yes, normal deleting 1 by 1 work well, so is not important issue...

Thanks again for this magnificent software!!! :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Kraize:
I'd like to know. Is it possible? :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Omega Ra:
I'd like to see the mod for landscape where there are no arrows and the buttons are bigger for WQVGA. I find the keys a little small still
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] amitagrawal:
wow was only just looking to see if there is an update and bingo.. this is my favourite keyboard and now only better.... :) thanks man.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] x-mann:
how about addin macedonian keyboard...ill help if need in doing that?

its cyrilic letter,

ty in advance

ps.2.1 is far bether