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A PocketCM Keyboard .23+ WVGA theme I made for the large of finger so you can worry just about what you want to say instead of trying to spend all your time pecking at each key and getting it right.
Features:
Virtual D-Pad
Long press on any letter to get uppercase.
Long press on almost any key for quick access to similar symbols.
Shift button is caps lock.
I made every key as large (tall (with big layout and wide)) as possible.
Has larger room for correction / allowed mistakes than standard keyboard to allow for less pickiness on large screen (WVGA).
Landscape finally works.
English qwerty.
Optimized as much as possible (including all images) for speed and size of theme.
Hold "!" for "!! "
Hold "?" for "?? "
Hold "," for ".com"
Hold "$" for "€"
Only bugs / quirks I'm currently aware of:
Not sure of what the height for landscape should be. (If you are using a full screen app (such as PocketCM) the current height is great, otherwise..it takes up pretty much the whole screen. Easy to change. Go to settings.ini, and change the last value from 27p to something more like 23p.)
Correction currently will not go through when any symbol is entered. Suggestion will go through only when the following are pressed immediately after a word is entered
space
!
@
Based off Tene's dream theme, so looks are the same.
Credits to of course tene and and also zard for assistance with the virtual keys.
Credits also to MrHawaii of PPCGeeks for a few ideas.
UPDATE 3/16/2009 V1.11
Started over from scratch.
Removed "Hold space bar for ". " (period and double space)." temporarily until I hear further from Tene on how to make it work more correctly.
Made suggestion 19% more forgiving, allowing for 19% further displacement from correct key. Think that is the farthest I will go, though I can bump it up if requested.
Suggestion will currently (until I hear from tene on how to fix it) only go through on the following
space
!
@
UPDATE 3/11/2009 V1.1
Added:
Hold comma key for ".com"
Auto - double space inserted when period, exclamation mark, or question mark pressed.
Hold space bar for ". " (period and double space).
Fixed:
Correction now goes through even on ?!.,
(Isn't actually as blurry as it looks on the thumbnail)
PCMK can be found at pocketcm.com
Updated. Small fixes and enhancements. See OP.
Thanks!
Use it on my Touch HD and its working fine!
Install Help
How do I install this?
michedenhaag said:
Thanks!
Use it on my Touch HD and its working fine!
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Good to hear thx. Just re-uploaded, realized there was a small typo in the settings file, causing the "hold "!" for "!! " not to function.
ajhirsch said:
How do I install this?
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Have you installed pcm keyboard? This is merely a theme for the awesome SIP.
Go to pocketcm.com
what setting would I have to tweak to drop the spell box down a line or two...
tnx..
oogravyoo said:
what setting would I have to tweak to drop the spell box down a line or two...
tnx..
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No idea. Don't think that is up to the user or skinner.
hmm bummer, its half cut off on the Omnia..
this is using your skin btw..
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hmm bummer, its half cut off on the Omnia..
this is using your skin btw..
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That really all the information you're gonna give?
Lets have some details
What your default language is, what your screens resolution is (I'm not familiar enough w/ the omnia), what options you have selected in pcmk, a screenshot of the problem, what version of pcmk you are using, etc..
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That really all the information you're gonna give?
Lets have some details
What your default language is, what your screens resolution is (I'm not familiar enough w/ the omnia), what options you have selected in pcmk, a screenshot of the problem, what version of pcmk you are using, etc..
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PocketCM Keyboard ver EN.023
Omnia I910 screen resolution 240x400
Options in pcmk are @ default
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1114/omnia.jpg
actually the more I look at it Im going to guess it cant be moved as its stuck to the top of the text window.. would the adjustment of the last value in the setting.ini you mentioned above help this?
sorry for the lack of info prior..
tnx
oogravyoo said:
PocketCM Keyboard ver EN.023
Omnia I910 screen resolution 240x400
Options in pcmk are @ default
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/1114/omnia.jpg
actually the more I look at it Im going to guess it cant be moved as its stuck to the top of the text window.. would the adjustment of the last value in the setting.ini you mentioned above help this?
sorry for the lack of info prior..
tnx
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Yep that's what's going to do it for you is just the height. I have it set for my device right now. The text box can't be moved / resized (except by tene), but if you lower the height of the whole keyboard then you should be good, I would recommend 24 or so.
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Yep that's what's going to do it for you is just the height. I have it set for my device right now. The text box can't be moved / resized (except by tene), but if you lower the height of the whole keyboard then you should be good, I would recommend 24 or so.
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Will give that a shot.. tnx for your input..
that did the trick! thanks again..
mur
tenx en tenx
Just wanted to mention, this works well on QVGA also.
Shift Key Graphics
Thanks .. this is a great theme!!
I see Shift key and up arrow key similar.. I just wanted to change shift key graphic to display "Sft" words in Image. I replaced shift.png in zip folder but it didnt work. How can I do this?
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Hi Jim,
Thanks for such a great theme! It's by far my favorite.
I was just wondering if you have released a new version of it since V1.11?
I'm not sure if I've found a bug, but, I've noticed that when I use any kind of punctuation (period, question mark, etc) it seems to be added to the beginning of the last word entered. For example instead of "I am home now.", I get "I am home .now". Is this behavior by design, or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
ima noob. how do you get your skin to take affect?
Just copy the zip file into the PCM Keyboard folder in Program Files, then in PCM k\'s option choose my theme and then the suitable layout.
I was watching a video about the HTC Pro7 and I noticed something that really caught my eye.
http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/htc-7-pro-software-tour-video
When internet explorer is in landscape on the HTC Pro7, the address bar is still visible. Is this only the case on phones with hardware keyboards?
It is possible to enable this for the rest of us (on the default IE) without keyboards?
Nothing is more frustrating that having to rotate to portrait each time I want to navigate somewhere else.
(Or switch tabs..)
I've combed the registry and have so far found nothing too useful, other than some Zoom values that I got to playing with.
As an unrelated note to anyone interested:
HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Zoom
ResetTextSizeOnZoom
ZoomInShortcut
ZoomOutShortcut
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All seem to do absolutely nothing and may be remnants.
So, I am wondering if anyone has either found a key to enable this? Or perhaps someone with a HTC Pro7 would mine picking through their registry.
It could very well be controlled by telling the system there is a hardware keyboard, which also disables the software keyboard from coming up in landscape with it out - yet that'd be an odd feature to only enable on those devices.
I'm fairly sure it's only available when the hardware keyboard is slid out, and only on landscape keyboards (i.e. not the Venue Pro).
There might be a registry key that controls this, but I don't know of one.
Browser on is an app that supports landscape browsing with address bar.
I was watching the MS keynote from MWC and it looks as if IE9 will have a horizontal address bar.
GoodDayToDie said:
I'm fairly sure it's only available when the hardware keyboard is slid out, and only on landscape keyboards (i.e. not the Venue Pro).
There might be a registry key that controls this, but I don't know of one.
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Correct, the address bar only shows up in landscape when I slide out my keyboard.
I downloaded the free Gingerbread keyboard from market, but found that in landscape it was cut-off by the Archos buttons. I then downloaded Steven Lin's latest source code from github, compiled it, and noticed that it doesn't have the landscape cut-off. I don't know why the version in Market is cut-off.
I then made some tweaks for myself. Two of these you can ignore: it comes with a nighmode version in red, but that's optional, and you can force the suggestions to be on even when the app requests them to be off (e.g., in search boxes), but that, too, is option. One tweak may annoy, and you can't turn it off: I added all the rest of the punctuation to what you get when you tap and hold the period and the comma. I can't do with only some punctuation on the main keyboard. Finally, I removed all language support other than English, which greatly slims down the apk.
So, all in all it's something I made for myself. But if you want it, it's here.
Thanks! It works great. The available additional punctuation is much appreciated; I always found the additional keystrokes needed annoying when using the terminal or ssh.
macemoneta said:
Thanks! It works great. The available additional punctuation is much appreciated; I always found the additional keystrokes needed annoying when using the terminal or ssh.
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Yeah, the lack of a full ASCII keyboard has always been a pet peeve of mine about portable devices. I suppose not everyone sends emails that require all ASCII symbols.
It doesn't work on A70. The keyboard doesn't open.
Flix123 said:
It doesn't work on A70. The keyboard doesn't open.
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1. Do you have "Gingerbread ARP keyboard" checked in the Keyboard settings?
2. What happens when you long tap on an input field, and then choose "Select input method"? Is it listed among the options?
By the way, I just found that the current version of the Gingerbread Keyboard in the Market works fine with landscape on my A43.
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1. Do you have "Gingerbread ARP keyboard" checked in the Keyboard settings?
2. What happens when you long tap on an input field, and then choose "Select input method"? Is it listed among the options?
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Of course, I activated the Gingerbread ARP keyboard in the settings. I chose it in the "select input method" menu.
When I tap on a textfield, the keyboard doesn't open, but at the bottom of the screen, there are ca. 2 rows of pixels, where I can see a little bit of the keyboard.
What can I do?
Interesting. There is no blank space, either?
What happens in landscape?
Does this happen with the 2.3 keyboard in the Market?
arpruss said:
Interesting. There is no blank space, either?
What happens in landscape?
Does this happen with the 2.3 keyboard in the Market?
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There is no white/blank space and the problem is in the landscape mode.
It happens everytime when I try to use this keyboard.
It's like the keyboard would be invisible, only the 2 rows of pixel on the bottom.
Try MultiLing Keyboard instead
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I downloaded the free Gingerbread keyboard from market, but found that in landscape it was cut-off by the Archos buttons.
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Try the MultiLing Keyboard, which I've found works fine. Unfortunately the sources are not available.
-- jch
Flix123 said:
There is no white/blank space and the problem is in the landscape mode.
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Can you email me a screenshot? (My favorite way is to use adb: adb fbgrab /storage/gb.png and then adb pull /storage/gb.png.)
Is it fine in portrait?
Did you change your DPI setting? (I don't think it would make a difference, but you never know.)
The keyboard works great with my Archos 43. Thanks! I think I'll be using it from now on.
I am trying to use, but on portrait mode, which is the most used mode for me, it dont auto complete.
is there any option that i need to enable?
vbdss said:
I am trying to use, but on portrait mode, which is the most used mode for me, it dont auto complete.
is there any option that i need to enable?
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It should auto complete. Go into the settings, there should be an option for it.
Yeah, it is, but only English language, the one i use, dont.
vbdss said:
I am trying to use, but on portrait mode, which is the most used mode for me, it dont auto complete.
is there any option that i need to enable?
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I've gone through the same.
I tried Smart Keyboard Pro, Swiftkey 3 Tablet, Thumb Keyboard 4, and Go Keyboard and the only one that worked for me as far as suggestions and auto-complete is concerned is Go Keyboard. (My favorite mode is landscape though)
If you use Ink Note or any other simple text app all of them work like a charm, but if you use Kingsoft Office as I do, then it's a different ball game.
I do a lot of MS Office word docs, most of them in Spanish, and the word suggestion and auto-complete are a plus to me, so I tried all of those keyboard apps with every possible setting, layout, you name it, but the only one that worked for me was Go keyboard, now, there's an issue, for it to suggest words and auto-complete you have to tap on the "T9" button. (make sure the little green dot on the upper left corner of the button is on) by doing this you lose (idk why) the capitalization, so you have to press the shift key for every new paragraph and so on, but I guess that's the lesser of two evils.
A friend told me some of them work (or may work) with Office Suite Pro, but I definitely like Kingsoft Office better, so I had to stick with Go Keyboard.
What app are you using for your typing?
I hope I could have been of help, if not, maybe some power user will be able to help us both.
Good luck.
I am using Swiftkey X 3 now, fas typing and almost without errors.
Does anyone know if we can access the note 8's keyboard dictionary to edit it and if so how do I get to it?
I don't see anything in settings like most keyboards.
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I might be missing something too... but my biggest irritation with this tablet is its compulsive auto correct. I often find it'll change my word... So I go back and edit it, press space for the next word and damn it! It's been auto corrected again! F*ck you! Leave my spelling alone!
Anyone know how to adress this issue?
FaeMinx said:
I might be missing something too... but my biggest irritation with this tablet is its compulsive auto correct. I often find it'll change my word... So I go back and edit it, press space for the next word and damn it! It's been auto corrected again! F*ck you! Leave my spelling alone!
Anyone know how to adress this issue?
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Samsung keyboard settings: disable Predictive Input
Hmm... but that disables predictive input entirely.
What I'm looking for, is that suggested words come up, but they aren't auto-corrected.... in other words, it leaves my spelling as is unless I actually select the suggested word.
FaeMinx said:
Hmm... but that disables predictive input entirely.
What I'm looking for, is that suggested words come up, but they aren't auto-corrected.... in other words, it leaves my spelling as is unless I actually select the suggested word.
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Can't find such option in Samsung keyboard. If you are willing to switch, Swype has separate options for suggestions and autocorrect.
SWYPE
p107r0 said:
Can't find such option in Samsung keyboard. If you are willing to switch, Swype has separate options for suggestions and autocorrect.
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Swype is really worth a try!
blackg3cko said:
Swype is really worth a try!
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seems to have bigger dictionary and better recognition as well
Will I lose the option to use handwriting recognition if I switch to Swype?
FaeMinx said:
Will I lose the option to use handwriting recognition if I switch to Swype?
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Swype has it's own handwriting recognition, never tested so don't know if it's better or not.
It is also possible to keep Swype as normal keyboard and Samsung handwriting for pen input - in one of the threads here someone suggested an app which automatically switches default keyboard upon pen removal, alas don't remember it's name.
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I'm trying out Swype right now. Swyping is fast and accurate, and the Dragon dictation is nice, but the handwriting recognition sucks (poor recognition and predictability), IMHO. I don't find it much of a hassle to switch between it the Samsung and Google keyboards (due a glitch in the return key not working) by pulling down the the notification bar and chasing input method.
p107r0 said:
app which automatically switches default keyboard upon pen removal
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found it:
[App][Root] SPenBoardSwitcher 2 - Changing keyboards depending on the S-Pen Position:
Have you ever wanted to use a certain keyboard for normal use, and a different one for the S-Pen! This will ease your life.
- When the service is running, the pen's position is detected and the keyboard is switched to the learned or pre-defined one (depending on the mode).
- The service runs quietly and efficiently. No popups, no interventions.
- Support for starting on boot
- Service supports two modes:
Learning mode: Tries to detect the keyboard you use in each pen position, stores the detected keyboard, and uses it the next time you take your pen off, or return it to its place.
Fixed Mode: The service only uses the keyboards you chose inside the application, even if you use another keyboard for a short time, when the pen's position, the keyboard is reverted back to the ones you chose.
app in post #2, there's also donate version in Play Store
anyone able to edit user dictionary ... or import text file ... right now its learning from facebook and gmail but cannot import it by whatsapp ... software like User Dictionary manager show blank dictionary ... samsung note 2 n7100