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TouchPal v3 now released. Anyone want to design a good skin?

http://www.cootek.com
TOUCHPAL
What's new in V3?
Thanks to our customer feedback and their support to our continueous innovation, there're a bunch of new features in V3:
* Now you can "flow" your keyboard by sliding left or right!
* Support two more layouts: single-key layout and 9-key layout.
* Press-hold a key will expand all the characters on that key, including the accented letters (e.g., "a" for "á").
* Prediction is now based on context.
A lot more features and enhancements are available in V3. A detail list of new stuffs in V3 >>
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The skins are now customisable, but I find the default one is a bit boring.
Anyone care to enhance it?

Their new mistype correction is amazing!

Hebrewwwwwwww!
ok.. to be more specific than just yelling "HEBREW"... we israelies are having problems with writing in Hebrew in our keyboards after upgrading to WM6 because Eyron is dumb. (atleast in my eyes). and paragon supports only hebrew screen keyboard writing and not the physical keyboard. i believe that if they added hebrew to touchpal many israelies would buy it.
something to think about.

great news, installed already can't help with the skins though.

Ok, because no one was doing anything about a terrible standard skin , I changed all available png files to black and white in a graphic program. That did not take care of some backgrounds (ie help tag) and there is still a blue line across the keyboard. But I have no clue how to sort these out... Can anyone help?
BTW this SIP is amazing.

If you want more skins, look here: http://www.cootek.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=6

This software is the best input i ever use how do you think frens?

I have seen the V3 preview you tube...and it has the old v2 skin which i love ---- pity they have not released a skin pack for it as yet

theme freak said:
This software is the best input i ever use how do you think frens?
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I've tried a bunch of keyboard programs and I have to say that this one is my favorite. Took just a bit of getting used to though. I just wish the installer didn't ask so many questions. That makes it tought to use UC.

i've attached the CAB if anyone wants it. Its a 15 day trial of Pro, then reverts to Standard.

Hebrew Lang Pack
Can't wait for it to come out.. i need a comfortable hebrew keyboard so bad.

Any way to alter rows & columns with skins?
I doubt this can be done because I didn't see anything about it on Cooktek's tutorial, but can you only change the keyboard color with skins?
I was excited to see that this new version adds a 9-key (usually that would be called a 12-key) layout because I like that for one-handed typing a lot, but it looks like you're still stuck with 5 columns.
I would much prefer to have bigger button in 3 columns like the htc keypad for portrait mode. Only problem with that one is the "side-effects" of XT9.
So is there any way to skin this new version and change the layout to 3 columns in portrait mode?

The awful sound
can i get rid of the nasty sound when i scroll left or right to select new keyboard layout...it makes a sound like a bomb is about to land on you
fixed: go to option and scroll until you find a selection to disable it.

This is a great keyboard. Amazing!
Just one question though, is there a way to change the color from blue to black?

jkrj524 said:
This is a great keyboard. Amazing!
Just one question though, is there a way to change the color from blue to black?
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Next time, please read around before you post.
Follow the link in Post #6
There are many skins there, including black ones.
You can also try the official GreySky theme, located at the bottom of the page here.

Azimuth21 said:
Next time, please read around before you post.
Follow the link in Post #6
There are many skins there, including black ones.
You can also try the official GreySky theme, located at the bottom of the page here.
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Sorry about that. Thanks a lot for the help.

Is there a way to change keys' disposition?
I mean... Can I move the "?" from the original position to a different one?

I think i´m blind, but how to change the language?
I installed the program and the german language pack, but i can´t find anything to switch to it.

Christian72D said:
I think i´m blind, but how to change the language?
I installed the program and the german language pack, but i can´t find anything to switch to it.
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Slide down on the "abc" tab and make your selection.

any vga diamond skin? cant find it khere.

[SKN][APP][08-30-08] Action Screen 9 Btn Diamond/Pro Background V6 (WiFi and BT btn)

Hi all,
Here is my version 6 of HTC Action Screen.
Change :
- Add Touch Diamond/Pro black background
- Modify title for all Diamond and Touch Pro users
Bug corrected :
- The "appointments" button, now turning green.
- Remove the wording "dial number or select a task.." on the top of screen (for certain people).
Donation :
- raptuz : 25,00 € (Thanks bro, you're great !!! )
All translations are coming soon if you like it (German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Greek ...).
- French added
- German added
- Dutch added
- Spanish added
- Italian added
- Swedish added
- Portuguese added
** Fix for those want the BT with discoverable option, HERE.
Thanks for your feedback ...
Screenshots :
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Other Translation
here you can find more translation :
- Greek added
- Norwegian added

Reserved (2)
Reserved ...

Its still nice, but the new icons are not so decent (corners) as the old one in version 5.1. But i like the new background. What about to combine the new background with the old icons? Si tu as encore le courage.

albatross88 said:
Its still nice, but the new icons are not so decent (corners) as the old one in version 5.1. But i like the new background. What about to combine the new background with the old icons? Si tu as encore le courage.
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You don't really see it on the screen, you can try and give me your feedback.
If it's really a problem, I'll try to correct it soon.

You are right, you don't really see it on the Diamond, only if you know it's there.. Finally, no need to correct it. I just prefer the old icons. Maybe the new icons match better with the Diamond-Background.

albatross88 said:
Maybe the new icons match better with the Diamond-Background.
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Exactly ! That's why I modified them.

Is it possible to start Thumbcal for new appointment and new task instead of the default wm programs.
Castor.

waiting for the Greek version.
THNX for the program
Regards

please can you make a dutch version with a end of data connection button instead of new contact??
would be perfect

Superb Action Screen
Thanks for fixing the title in v6
Works great on my Raphael.

NLD please
Could you please translate to NLD/ Dutch.
many thanks,

Richard van der horst said:
Could you please translate to NLD/ Dutch.
many thanks,
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If you send Fabliv a pm with the translation in dutch, i am sure he will upload the dutch version.. Or take the 5.1 version..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=421802

Does this version had the wording message at the top of the screen "Dial ....."

Thank you for a great enhancement of my Diamond!

thank you! one observation: after BT off, BT on turns on the BT but does not "make the device visible to other" so i have anyway to open the commanger and the BT, and mode....and...
can BT on include making the device visible?

nice proggie though i never used it.
I do like it but just doesnt fully fit my needs.
I was wondering will you ever included a settings menu to control what tabs can be shown or not disabled?
This is because i dont use the note/tasks etc and rather have a contacts tab to view my contacts. This is so i can replace my left softkey which is contacts atm.
once again NJ

Bug report
The "appointments" button will not turn green on the v6 english version...
On a sidenote: How can I remove the "Enter a phone number or select a task below..." text which is shown above the "Touch" logo?
Thank you very much for all your hard work!

soulfire said:
Does this version had the wording message at the top of the screen "Dial ....."
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Corrected ...

johnny.gers said:
The "appointments" button will not turn green on the v6 english version...
On a sidenote: How can I remove the "Enter a phone number or select a task below..." text which is shown above the "Touch" logo?
Thank you very much for all your hard work!
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w0lf's Translator v1.1

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Hello!
I've made a few enhancements to my little program; most of them were suggested by you on this forum, so I thank you for this.
What's new in v1.1:
- Fixed the "Autodetect" label bug
- Moved the "Cancel" menu item over the "Translate" menu item when processing a request
- "Set Default Languages" - saves the current language combination and restores it when application starts
- "Configure Language Set" - if you only want to use 3 or 4 languages yo may select a subset of the languages supported by the application to be shown in the interface
- Copy/Paste feature
- CAB file for easier installation
In order to download the CAB, please go to http://w0lfwmcoder.googlepages.com and press the download link.
Enjoy!

excellent work !

nice, thanks

thanks a lot man!!
this tool is awesome

definatly a useful tool at least it makes you barely understand few things which would be out of sight under a normal situation. thanks and keep up the nice work.

Thank you guys! I'm glad you like this little program.
In my first post I forgot to mention that I also fixed the character encoding bug, which was reported by v3patel here.

What languages does your app provide?

flaviopac said:
What languages does your app provide?
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The supported languages are:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czezh, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Error
I'd really like to use your application, but I keep getting this error. I have the latest NET CF and I am connected to the internet.

AthenaLod said:
I'd really like to use your application, but I keep getting this error. I have the latest NET CF and I am connected to the internet.
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Hello, AthenaLod!
Several other people have had problems like that and it seems there are other applications that have this problem as well.
I've been looking into it, but with no results so far. When I find something out I'll surely let you know.
I seems to me like a corrupt installation of .Net CF 3.5; maybe you can try to reinstall it and let us know whether this solves the problem or not. The error you are getting is when the application is trying to set a textbox as readonly. shadowmike, for instance, has a similar problem because of the instantiation of a splitter control. These are pretty common operations and I don't know why they would throw any exceptions.
I've found some threads posted by several guys on msdn.com, but there are no answers yet

nice app, thanks for that!
Anyone know anything about data traffic?

respider said:
nice app, thanks for that!
Anyone know anything about data traffic?
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The data traffic is very close to the size of the text you enter to be translated and to the translated text.
For example, if you translate the text:
Code:
Welcome to xda-developers.com
This site is about certain PDA-phones, made by a firm called HTC in Taiwan.
Their makers named them 'Wallaby', 'Himalaya', 'Blue Angel', 'Wizard' and
'TyTN', but almost nobody knows them by those names. The mobile provider
O2 sells them under the brand-name 'XDA', and that's what we had in our
hands first. They're also known as Qtek, MDA, SX-56, Hermes and many,
many other names.
from English to French, you will make an upload of about 0.4 kB and a download of about 0.5 kB.
This is an approximation, since I'm at work right now and I don't have the actual sources.
If people find it useful, maybe I can include a feature to show the size of the data which is sent/received, but I don't think there's anything to worry about, because in order to make some serious traffic with it you have to be Shakespeare; I seriously don't think there's anyone who will write a 1MB text on the mobile phone.

SwiftKey Beta is out (IME)

What is SwiftKey?
SwiftKey brings the future of text entry to smartphones. It uses TouchType’s breakthrough Fluency™ technology to predict the next word you want to type, before you even press a key.
Fast
With SwiftKey, your next word is predicted with such incredible accuracy that a third of suggestions are right first time and usually you won’t need to press more than two letters.
Accurate
SwiftKey uses advanced error correction, meaning grammar and spelling errors are a thing of the past. Typing with SwiftKey produces text you can rely on, in a fraction of the time it takes on a regular QWERTY keyboard.
Intelligent
SwiftKey doesn’t just predict regular words – it learns as you type and remembers how you write. As words and sentences are chosen over time, its Fluency™ engine creates a dynamic understanding of your writing style to boost the accuracy, fluency and speed of prediction.
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But is it really that much better than the HTC keyboard? I'm not a fan of Swype to be honest. I like tapping much more, especially since I don't always use standard words, which can be annoying with Swype then.
Download:
1. Search for it on the android market.
2. Or use this QR Code:

Thanks for posting this.
I have to say Ive just tried this and it seems very good. Might be my favourite so far out of the Stock keyboard, HTC Mod, and Swype. Time will tell though. Only wrote a few texts with it, but it does seem quick.

So far, I quite like it.
I wish it would stop inserting spaces after punctuation and word selection though.

Other languages than English are supported ?

I like it a lot, also because it can learn from your sms history and HTC IME mod is extremely poor in dictionary.
So far it's working ok, but it needs some fine tuning in the interface and it allows just one language for now!

Fightspit said:
Other languages than English are supported ?
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US/UK English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch
Swedish

Was blown away by first message... typed a full sentence and only had to press the first letter of a few words and space bar the rest.
Have been using BetterKeyboard for a while now, but SwiftKey immediately outdoes it's prediction and easier to select other words. Hopefully this takes off and skins are developed etc... keys felt a touch smaller than BK.
edit: "I love you." = , [space], [l], [space], [space] - still has the same meaning

the QR code goes to LogMeIn ignition

kekkle said:
US/UK English
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch
Swedish
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Is there a work around to use two language packs? I need the german language pack for most of my things but like in this forum and for twitter and so on I need the english language pack.
Greetings,
Thomas

brilliant
Love the keyboard! only thing i've noticed so far is that double tap on the spacebar does not put a '.' in

sparksalot said:
the QR code goes to LogMeIn ignition
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Thanks for the heads up. Fixed it.
tlayh said:
Is there a work around to use two language packs? I need the german language pack for most of my things but like in this forum and for twitter and so on I need the english language pack.
Greetings,
Thomas
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Not that I know about. I uninstalled it quickly after. I still love the Sense keyboard more.
With Sense you can type something like:
gey, egat ere yuu diing ronught?
It will actually manage to fix it to:
hey, what are you doing tonight?

Well, as long as there is no multi language support for this keyboard I will have to switch back to sense too. But I have to say the the Swift keyboard is the best keyboard I tried until now (besides the original keyboard).
Greetings,
Thomas

it' cool very cool.
But it's very boring that add a space every time.
If I want to add a three point I have to cancel the space.

[APK] Swype 1.60.36.8214

Tested on my own HTC Desire with OpenDesire v4.0
What is Swype?
Swype provides a faster and easier way to input text on any screen. With one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard, the patented technology enables users to input words faster and easier than other data input methods—at over 40 words per minute. The application is designed to work across a variety of devices such as phones, tablets, game consoles, kiosks, televisions, virtual screens and more.
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"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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Simply Trace a Path
The word “quick” was generated from tracing the path shown above in a fraction of a second, by roughly aiming to pass through the letters of the word. A key advantage to Swype is that there is no need to be very accurate, enabling very rapid text entry.
Key Features
Over 40 words per minute on touchscreen devices
Standard QWERTY layout
Use a stylus or finger
Ideal for Smartphones and Tablet PCs
Multiple languages available
Supports common editing actions
Patented
SDK available now!
Single Tap Predictive Text for mobile devices
Speed and Accuracy
Swype is faster than existing text entry methods because it has built-in intelligence that does not require users to hit each letter accurately. Also, tracing a smooth, continuous path is much faster than “target-tap-lift-target-tap...”. Even novice users can quickly achieve sustained data entry speeds of over 40 words per minute.
Install process
Download via. link
Move to SDCard
Use a filemanager Astro etc. to install
Go into Settings
Choose Language & keyboard
Check Swype
Long press a text field
Choose input method
Choose Swype
Swype is multilanguage and include:
US English
UK English
Deutsch
Français
Español
Italiano
Nederlands
Português
Polski
Norsk
Svenska
Dansk
Suomi
Cestina
Slovencina
Romana
Russian
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Not sure if this will get removed. Does this version expire at all?

ephumuris said:
Not sure if this will get removed. Does this version expire at all?
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Hey m8 im not sure if it will expire... Found it on google somewhere(credit to uploader)... But again its a beta so think i will expire sometime.

Svolencina which language is this?

kmetek said:
Svolencina which language is this?
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corrected now

It's not slovenian, it's slovakian.
@kmetek: get the slovenian swype on sloandroid forum ;]
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Mass force close
Causes mass force closures on my Desire with OD4.0.
Worked for about 20 seconds at first tho... then forced closed itself, then f/c messaging... so i restarted... on phone startup it f/c for 5 or 6 of my startup apps
damn i want this to work!

ive been using it for 2days now no crash what so ever...

bormeth said:
ive been using it for 2days now no crash what so ever...
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Going to give it a go now. Had it on my Touch Pro2 a while back. Takes a bit of getting used to if i remember rightly and never really used it due to having a hard keyboard on the TP2.

I tried this on my device. Worked fine but it was actually much slower and less accurate to type Finnish than with the regular Scandinavian keyboard. Also the key layout was kinda horrible. Guess it works better with English.

Works brilliantly on my stock HTC Desire, 2.2 FroYo, not Rooted.

This is newer than the public beta. Nice job!
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

Glad you liked it guys

First. No it will not expire. It's the Swype from the Galaxy S phones.
Second. I think Swype have asked us to remove any Swype apks from XDA..

Swype cannot be distributed. We have already gotten requests to remove Swype on many occasions. Please stop distributing this app like this. Thread closed.