is there any way to change the height of the soft keys
I'm afraid not. You can hide them (would be unwise on the TP).
They do get smaller when you use RealVGA on your TP. This is caused by the different DPI setting.
ok i might give the real vga a try thankyou
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Hi all,
does anyone know how the size of the keys (squares) in the standart WM5 keyboard (that pops up when you use word) can altered ? Somewhere in registry maybe ?
I know there is a bunch of keypad software out there, by either too small, full screen or T9. Doesnt work for me. Just need the key squares slightly bigger and still see most of the doc.
Cheers
Paddy
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Hi all,
does anyone know how the size of the keys (squares) in the standart WM5 keyboard (that pops up when you use word) can altered ? Somewhere in registry maybe ?
I know there is a bunch of keypad software out there, by either too small, full screen or T9. Doesnt work for me. Just need the key squares slightly bigger and still see most of the doc.
Cheers
Paddy
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they can't be altered with, say, registry hacks because what you see is a bitmap. use an alternate keyboard; there are several software add-on SIP's
hi, i have an idea that when merged with ur development skills may result in such a good keyboard, the idea is about a fullscreen keyboard just like spb keyboard but with a small addition that to be a transparent keyboard, take a look at the attached image, as u can see every button is one character just to make it easy as possible for pressing, i meant by the SP buttons that they r special buttons just like space, enter or they can be like TouchPal special buttons may be for numbers or special characters or an exit(hide) button and so on.
now i believe that it appears in the image that some of the characters is not clear because it is over another layer but dont forget that am poor with design so may be a good designer can give the characters a better effect to give clear image than the emboss effect i used in the image, may be a negative effect or something, even for the character square-background there is no need for it i just set it to show the character borders.
so developers i hope this can take place one day, and i hope from any graphic designer to take a screen shot from a mobile screen then try to add the characters layer with most possible clearance what ever is the background layer and then post here to see the result, thnx anyway ....
what if you make a mistake when typing and notice it at the end? how are you going to travel through the message as normally you will click where you want to put the cursor however when you click on yours it'll write a letter?
mmmm i didnt notice this, u r right, what about about pressing a special button which shows up/down/left/right transparent buttons with backspace/delete buttons just like touchpal?? so we have a new idea here that to give the keyboard all the control on a text, what do u think ??
I like the idea but another problem is how to make it qwerty-like in portrait mode?
I mean the limiting factor is the horizontal size of buttons (qwerty in portrait) not their height.
Applogies first, this is the extent of my artistic skills lol
if you based it on the hermes keyboard you can have ten keys on each row, so that would give each key a width of 32, and if you make the height of the key 40 that would give you a keyboard of 10 by 5, but u only need 10 by 4
im not sure if its workable but ill add the worst keyboard youve ever seen so you get the ideal
You are truly an artist! Teach me, master!
But that's in landscape (which is not a problem), what about portrait mode?
Really should just give TouchPal a go... I find that better than any hardware or virtual keyboard you can get...
actually am using TouchPal and it is my best keyboard and i believe that if windows mobile devices has a very sensitive touch screen just like the iPhone then i can say that TouchPal will be the best all the time, but with my htc touch i still have a problem with touchpal when i want to enter such words like password/email (without predicate) specially when sliding left/right, any way it was an idea ....
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Applogies first, this is the extent of my artistic skills lol
if you based it on the hermes keyboard you can have ten keys on each row, so that would give each key a width of 32, and if you make the height of the key 40 that would give you a keyboard of 10 by 5, but u only need 10 by 4
im not sure if its workable but ill add the worst keyboard youve ever seen so you get the ideal
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...that just gave me turets!
I like to carry my Advantage on the leather cover without the keyboard, what help to keep it protected without making too much bulk on my pocket. I have tried many of the soft keyboards available and like very much Resco, Zoomboard and PocketCM. However I think the best layout is the one which have the keys on the 'smile' orientation which apparently none of them offer. I'm using SPB full keyboard because of that but don't like the fact it covers the all screen, it's more oriented for small screen than to the Advantage. Does anyone knows about a VGA skin on this shape? What everybody is using for soft keyboard?
I've tried many software keyboard. I always go back to Tengo 2.1. If you're not using 192dpi, it's good to also have Resco Keyboard in addition to Tengo 2.1.
At the moment I'm back to using my device in 192dpi again, after using it in 96dpi for many months. At this dpi, I like to completely do without the stylus. So I've redone my iLauncher to use the Thumb tab and have big icons throughout. Tengo 2.1 works very well for Thumb typing. There are only six big keys (or rather six areas of keys) to touch most of the time, so its really easy. Tengo's keyboard size is the same under all dpi. It does not invade your screen like some other soft keyboard, despite having one of the largest sized keys (or areas of keys).
One other important consideration is weather or not you need to input in other languages too. If you need to input in East Asian language, then your choices may be different again, just as example.
Thank you Eaglesteve, I will try Tengo. I'm using 192dpi also because on the move I need something that I can easy 'shot' the right key due to the large icons instead of 'aiming' perfectly on the bullseye. Many times walking and working with the Advantage, what a great machine!!
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Thank you Eaglesteve, I will try Tengo. I'm using 192dpi also because on the move I need something that I can easy 'shot' the right key due to the large icons instead of 'aiming' perfectly on the bullseye. Many times walking and working with the Advantage, what a great machine!!
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Be sure to go through the tutorial first.
If you're using it in 192 dpi, forget about Resco, because Tengo 2.1 has three different layout, one of which is the big sized standard keyboard, which is good for typing in software serial number, etc. The other two layouts are not suitable for such job.
The thing that you will like about this keyboard is that it is not necessary to type the specific key precisely although that would also work. The idea is to allow you to be very very imprecise and yet give you the correct words to choose from. Your finger need not travel all over the place when you type. Just touch the TYGHBN area.
If you need special and unique words, then go for the key precisely. What you type will appear on top right corner. Just choose that word instead of the proposed ones. Once you have used that unique word once, it automatically gets added to the dictionary so that you can use that word by typing imprecisely at the six area later on.
Enjoy.
How do you change resoloution?
Forgive me for my stupid question, but how do you change the screen resolution on your athena?
Would like to do that myself!
branko.savic said:
Forgive me for my stupid question, but how do you change the screen resolution on your athena?
Would like to do that myself!
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Not sure if I understand what you're asking. If your question is what I think it is, then the answer is to use realVGA. Am I missing something?
I think that's what he's asking.
RealVGA: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327830
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I think that's what he's asking.
RealVGA: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=327830
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Thanks!
Thats exactly what I meant!
The semi-qwerty keyboard cab file is available if you google it. However after installing it, I realize the accent key on my physical keyboard does not work anymore.
This is the answer I got on the other forum:
can't be help, because the key actions are defined according to the keyboard layout, and the default layout which includes the accent key is being overwritten by the cab file. You probably can revert back to stock keyboard layout and the semi-qwerty/full-qwerty/phonepad SIP, but you probably will lose the T9 function.
alternatively, use the symbol key to type the accent characters.
Does someone knows how to solve this problem so both Full/Semi Qwerty and physical keyboard work together.. especially cause i'm using Croatian letters čćšđž
THX
I just realized I have the same problem. Maybe someone can help us have both accent letters and Touch HD virtual keyboard...
Is this only registry problem or maybe have to change some dll? anybody?
Up! Maybe someone has an idea.
nothing to do?
blackstone keyboard is the best but we wan't to resolve the accent issue...please help!!
nothing?
You could try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=479464
Doesn't mess with the àü key.
Ok, I tried that keyboard, but it doesn't restore the accent key functionality. Maybe after a hard reset, but I wanted to avoid it.
Same problem here. Blackstone keyboard does my "au" hardware key unuseful - it dos not work.
Also T9 does not work with hardware keyboard.
I think HR is the only way for me - and you at this moment
Would SPB Keyboard 4.1 work without messing up the accent button? Is it any good?
I have the same problem, but with the Touch Diamond 2 keybord. It's really annoying
I had to lose all my data to update the firmware. After that I tried the SPB Keyboard and it's really good. It has layouts for a lot of languages and the accent key works.
ive used version 1 of this and it did not mess with my keyboard. this is the new version that just came out. i havent tried it because version 1 is working good enough for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487677
news.....?
Finger Keybord 2 ??
Anyone know if it's possible to tweak the qwerty keyboard? I'm coming over from a TP2 and I like the builtin KB that HTC provides, and it should be even nicer on the larger screen, but it's not as handy as it could be. There are extra, blank keys on the 2/2 Numeric pad and I'm wondering if it's possible to add some keys. For instance it would be very handy to have a space key in the numeric pads.
I just upgraded from a TYTN II and i do miss the physical keyboard and i'm not too crazy over the software keyboard mainly because i don't get the tactile feel of pressing the keys.
But have you tried the Swype ? Needs a little getting used to but i'm getting pretty good with Swype and i feel it's a lot faster than typing. Plus it looks pretty cool
Ther are other keyboards. Sorry, I don't recall their name. One was very customizable though. I tired two different ones, but they didn't play nice with predictive text.
I have Resco and I like it well enough, though the version I have doesn't seem to have been built for 800x480 so it doesn't use all of the screen real estate. Therefore the keys are too small.
I like the HTC QWERTY keyboard a lot. It just doesn't seem to be customizable and therefore one has to switch between the screens more than it might otherwise be necessary in order to get the keys you're after. All I really want to do is to be able to enter a space while on the numeric screen. Not move the cursor, but to add an actual space. And to swap a couple of the characters on the 1/2 screen with others on the ABC and 2/2 screens.
Other than that I think it's a great keyboard. The haptic for me provides enough feedback and the keys are plenty big enough. My Leo should be here today or tomorrow and then I can start trying different things. If it turns out Resco's current KB can be made larger then that would probably be just the ticket assuming the HTC KB cannot be customized. I'm not really interested in tryiing Swype, but thanks for the tip.
I would imagine there's an XML keymap somewhere that we could conceivably edit but I'm not sure, i'd like to know the answer as well.
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All I really want to do is to be able to enter a space while on the numeric screen. Not move the cursor, but to add an actual space.
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you dont mean THIS space then?