For the life of me, I can't get this to work since upgrading to WM6 (Black Edition 2.0). Whenever sending a text or email, nothing comes up in the To field when typing. I've already tried searching. Any ideas?
Tenor said:
For the life of me, I can't get this to work since upgrading to WM6 (Black Edition 2.0). Whenever sending a text or email, nothing comes up in the To field when typing. I've already tried searching. Any ideas?
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A long shot since you come from US... but even though... have you somewhat changed any of these reg entries in order to change your keyboard mapping - in case, change them back to what it was:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Preload]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Preload\1]
edit: and you have checked 'Suggest words when entering text' under Settings -> Input -> Word Completion ?
laaban said:
A long shot since you come from US... but even though... have you somewhat changed any of these reg entries in order to change your keyboard mapping - in case, change them back to what it was:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Preload]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\keyboard layout\Preload\1]
edit: and you have checked 'Suggest words when entering text' under Settings -> Input -> Word Completion ?
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Yes, I have. I'll give it a shot.
That did the trick. Thank you very much!
Keyb mapping ok + autocomplete
Thanks!
It works so the only tweak to do is (read from wiki) :
Modification to keyboard hack. The above solution does not work for the Hermes the following new settings are required.
Goto the following registry entry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oem\Qwerty]There is a key called 'Layout' and it is in Decimal.
The default value of English ROM is 20409, and Chinese ROM is 20404 (both are in hexadecimal).
The suitable value for German Hermes keyboard is 20407 (132103 in decimal).
The suitable value for Spanish Hermes keyboard is 2040a (132106 in decimal).
Probably Hermes use 20+country ID (409=WWE, 407=German, 404=Trad. Chinese, etc...) format for keyboard layout value.
FingerKeyboard2 is now available HEREhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=501122! This version is obsolete!
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FingerKeyboard - Black edition v1.4 - full landscape support
After being on a hunt for a perfect Touch HD keyboard, I stumbled upon a custom made keyboard posted few days ago, by a nice guy named Exidler. It was the spitting image of iPhone keyboard (graphic wise) and after a few minutes of trying it out, I knew I finally found what I was looking for. With a bit of help from the author I decided to reskin and edit his keyboard so it would fit better into "black Touch HD" style theme. So, here it is! I also fixed a few bugs, turned off the typing sound, added some missing characters (such as € etc.) and made some changes in the layout.
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What is it?
- it's an iPhone style keyboard with great key layout and some very cool features that will make your everyday typing a great experience.
Who made it?
- Exidler made the original keyboard, and I made a new skin and a few changes in the layout and behavior. I also have to mention Berkut_G who worked hard on landscape mode.
How to install it?
- Make a folder in your Program Files (recommend you use device memory):
/Program files/FingerKeyb/ and extract the attached FingerKeyboard - Black edition v1.3 - with landscape.zip into it.
You should end up with:
"/Program files/FingerKeyb/Skins"
"Program files/FingerKeyb/Fingerkeyb_register.exe"
"Program files/FingerKeyb/fingerkeyb.dll"
After that run Fingerkeyb_register.exe and select Fingerkeyb.dll file with full path. Press "Register" and you're done. Your new keyboard will now be available under "Other input methods".
If you installed v1.1 or v1.2 then you will first need to UNREGISTER the old keyboard! If you have v1.3 then you don't need to do the unregister/register process - just take the latest zip file, find Skin.txt and copy it into Skins folder. You have to overwrite the old one, and make sure you do this while the keyboard is inactive (as long as it's not up on the screen, it's inactive. You can simply switch to stock keyboard while doing these copy+paste procedures to avoid fatal errors).
To UNREGISTER the keyboard (v1.1 / v1.2) follow this procedure:
1. Copy Fingerkeyb_register.exe to the phone, run it and unregister keyboard.
2. Softreset (reboot) the phone.
3. Delete the whole Fingerkeyb folder.
4. Repeat installation procedure as described under "How to install?" in this post.
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Information about landscape mode:
- the keyboard now supports landscape mode
- the landscape mode is English / Romanian. If you want Russian, then go to post #33, download skin_rus.txt and save it to your Skins folder as "skin.txt"
- it has fully functional English landscape keyboard + alternate language layout
- it has fully functional English + Romanian vertical keyboard
- now has a fully functional numeric keyboard!
- there may be some bugs and possibly some special symbols missing
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PROS AND CONS:
good:
- now supports landscape mode with dual language layout and numeric keypad!
- very precise for finger use
- excellent layout
- highly customizable (check Skins.txt)
- predefined smiley buttons
- english and romanian supported (other languages will be available as skin.txt files once we have everything sorted out)
- looks great and fits the TF3D visual style perfectly
bad:
- some people report problems when using this keyboard on alternative ROM's or in combination with rotation app's
- does not support T9 (sorry guys, but I don't use it anyway)
- some special characters may not be included (most of the everyday stuff is in there, however, and you can add in your own symbols if you need them)
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PROGRESS:
v1.5 - To be continued- time to start working on different language versions! If you want to make your localized language work, please edit the Skin.txt file. Do not edit the english part, as I'd like to keep this as default in all future keyboard versions. To edit the currently implemented Romanian language, find "LayoutBegin rom" string and edit below that, until you reach "LayoutEnd". There's 2 parts to be edited, one for vertical mode, one for landscape. Good luck and post the results!
v1.4 - current live version - includes numeric and alternate language layout for landscape mode. Also features new vertical numeric keypad. Thanks Berkut_g!
v1.3 - updated landscape graphics and layout, fixed bugs in landscape mode, vertical mode now 100% finnished.
v1.2 - updated vertical layout, now supports limited landscape mode, new .dll and register files.
v1.1 - vertical support for 2 languages + numeric keypad, turned off sounds, new graphics, new layout
v1.0 - exidler's original version with iPhone graphics
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VGA beta version available in post #158 (this thread, page 16)
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If you want to check original keyboard, start here (post 13):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477054&page=2. You can also find some different languages here, so play around with those Skin.txt files, but be advised that many are not finished and most don't have landscape support. Experiment at your own risk.
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Screenshots:
Keyboard layouts in different versions. Also attaching an example of what a pressed button looks like and latest landscape looks.
[ L A N G U A G E P A C K S ]
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MORE LANGUAGE PACKS CAN BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES OF THIS THREAD. Since there's so many versions floating around, I'll leave it up to users to go through the thread and choose what they want to use.
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At the moment, the default keyboard in post #1 has English and Romanian support. It's up to you guys to create localized versions for other languages.
If you want to make a localized language version, please edit the Skin.txt file. Do not edit the english part, as I'd like to keep this as default in all future keyboard versions. To edit the currently implemented Romanian language, find "LayoutBegin rom" string and edit below that, until you reach "LayoutEnd". There's 2 parts to be edited, one for vertical mode, one for landscape.
Once you're finished, please test your keyboard with new skin.txt and if everything works, post the new skin.txt in this thread with with following name format:
XXXX_skin.txt
xxxx = French, German, Russian, Danish etc.
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How to install new language packs?
To install alternate language packs, download the appropriate xxxx_skin.txt file, rename it to "Skin.txt" and copy to your phone's /Program Files/Fingerkeyb/Skins folder, overwriting the old skin.txt. Make sure you do this while the Fingerkeyboard is inactive (as long as it's not up on the screen it's inactive, you can simply switch to stock keyboard while doing these copy+paste procedures to avoid fatal errors).
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I can't guarantee that these files are 100% tested and stable, because they're user made. If you encounter problems, revert back to official skin.txt from the first post, or play around with these skin.txt files.
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About GERMAN language pack: This pack contains some changed graphics (as far as I can understand, the colors are changed to black & green, instead of black & red). If you like the default colors, then only use Skin.txt file from that .zip.
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check again now it has landscape mode
LE : for link :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3278519&postcount=41
Yeah, I just saw We posted practically at the same time! Waiting to hear from Exidler about the landscape mode, hopefully will have it up here later today for those that need it... I'll also look into making a few more skin versions.
I'd like to invite others to make their own skins and post them here, as well!
I can't find the library dll file ???
Fixed missing .dll file, download the new zip from post #1!
I am willing to give a try to this nice keyboard, but when I load "register.exe" from RESCO explorer I cannot point the file "Fingerkeyb.dll". I have also searched the HD for this file without results...
...where am I supposed to find Fingerkeyb.dll ?
thank you
I somehow managed to forgot the .dll in the first zip i posted It's fixed now, so just download the attached zip in first post and you'll find the .dll in there! Sorry Not really good with these thing
i'm working now on the landscape version of skin.txt
i'm not that good at photoshop so i'll leave that to others.
when i'll have a version of landscape layout working i'll post it .
Portrait mode is nice, not so sure about Landscape at the moment it needs stretching ala the HTC QWERTY keyboard
good work though guys
Landscape mode soon!
Like I said, landscape mode is not supported at the moment, but people are working on it, and I hope that today or tomorrow we'll have an updated version with landscape support!
works great!
thanks a lot!
is there a way to have the SMS editor pick up the contacts automatically when using this keyboard?
With the default keyboard it works, while with fingerkeyboard contacts are not coming up!
thank you
peppepep, I'm not sure, to be honest I was wondering that myself. But, of all alternate keyboards I tried so far, none of them have this option enabled.
Anyone have any ideas about solving this?
Altough I'm a slave of habbits, it's worth noting that the fastest way of sending SMS is to go to Contacts first, select a name and then press the "new SMS" icon. This way you have to press only 4-5 buttons, while going to SMS tab first, selecting new SMS and then typing a name into "To:" filend usually takes at least 10 clicks.
Few Suggestions
Hi,
Excellent keyboard for the HTC..man that old keyboard sucks...
just found two things which could be incorporated:
1. a missing '=' key...useful in excel...i know few more are missing but '=' is important of all
2. there is a caps lock ...but it allows u to type only one character in caps at a time...cant i have a lock so that i can enter multiple letters in caps...
i hope these buttons can be mapped...
thnx
sriramkrishnan06 said:
Hi,
Excellent keyboard for the HTC..man that old keyboard sucks...
just found two things which could be incorporated:
1. a missing '=' key...useful in excel...i know few more are missing but '=' is important of all
2. there is a caps lock ...but it allows u to type only one character in caps at a time...cant i have a lock so that i can enter multiple letters in caps...
i hope these buttons can be mapped...
thnx
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I agree about the = key, dunno how I missed it in the first post. What about other missing characters?
Ideas on other predefined multicharacter keys are also welcomed (such as the .com on the main English keyboard). Just keep in mind that the key should not have more then 3 letters + dot, because it won't fit into graphics correctly.
Please post your suggestions so I can update all in one turn. There's plenty of room on the caps keyboard.
About Caps lock - also good point. I'm affraid that's out of my knowledge range, but I'm sure exilder will take a look at it.
for = key you can create that yourself
for caps , i don't know author must give his input on this one
Works great thanks.
Caps lock works. Tap and hold the shift key and release when the caps are displayed.
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Andrew
Here the black version fot italian people!
1) Works with touchresponse
2) A lot of smiley
3) You can switch into the keyboards!
Rozenthal said:
I agree about the = key, dunno how I missed it in the first post. What about other missing characters?
Ideas on other predefined multicharacter keys are also welcomed (such as the .com on the main English keyboard). Just keep in mind that the key should not have more then 3 letters + dot, because it won't fit into graphics correctly.
Please post your suggestions so I can update all in one turn. There's plenty of room on the caps keyboard.
About Caps lock - also good point. I'm affraid that's out of my knowledge range, but I'm sure exilder will take a look at it.
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thanx for the quick response...the keys that can be incorporated:
1. =
2. < and >
3. { and }
4. [ and ]
5. (thats ':''D' without the ')
6. .net
7. www.
others can add more if they want
I agree I can as well add those to the keyboard...but since u are the moderator of this thread, I'd like everybody to have access to the same keyboard (I know Iam lazy)
some changes:
1. your numeric keyboard has space written on spacebar...just for consistency sake
2. Both A and J (caps) have '\' on top...instead we can leave J (caps) with '/' as is the case for 'j'
Hi all,
I want to ask if it is possible to "cook" some special feature to ROM with following functionallity:
I am typing my SMS with XT9 Czech, of course with unicode special characters. I need a fix, which will send the text without these special unicode signs to send it like a normal 160 characters instead of 70 characters SMS.
a) There are some utilities like SMSunaccent but it is a stand alone software which doesnt fit so well with all ROMs (problems with keyboard, etc.)
b) Also dont tell me to switch off the UNICODE selection in the message´s option, because the result is the sms with "?" instead of the special characters.
c) possible solution is to have the XT9 Czech without special characters, but I havent founf any editor of it.
Thank you very much and I will wait for your answer PDA Gurus ...