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Application Request: Supplement SIP for Wizard/Apache device

If there's one thing I don't like about the integrated slide-out keyboard of the Wizard and Apache series is the fact that frequently-used keys are special characters, including the numbers 0-9. There's no Control key to make the Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo keyboard shortcuts, either.
What I'm proposing is a customized Soft Input Panel (SIP) for landscape mode to work as a supplement to the slide-out keyboard of the Wizard and Apache.
Since the slide-out keyboard is relatively close to the landscape-oriented screen, it would be simple enough to reach the keyboard icon with your thumb to activate the SIP, as well as tapping the wide on-screen keys that usually take two or three hardware keystrokes to get.
Here's a mockup screenshot of what the SIP could look like:
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Landscape-friendly and thin design will be much appreciated.
When the SHIFT key is pressed on the slide-out keyboard:
Access punctuation and symbols just like traditional keyboards.
When the DOT key is pressed on the slide-out keyboard:
The backslash key is useful and normally requires three keystrokes to get it.
Some information on where to get started on developing your own SIP:
http://www.pocketpcdn.com/sections/sip.html
http://www.pocketpcdn.com/articles/im.html
Some of the possible technical challenges when creating this SIP:
the Keyboard SIP tends to hide itself when a hardware key is hit, so it's possible that the custom SIP will keep trying to hide.
Detection of landscape mode. It should revert back to the normal Keyboard SIP if portrait mode is detected.
Detection of the SHIFT and DOT states for both Wizard and Apache. You might want to look into the CapsNotify.exe on the Wizard to see how the EnableIndicator can detect the states. The Apache has no such program.
Some of the possible options or features of the SIP could include:
customizable buttons
vertically-resizable keys
floating SIP capability
tapping sound effect
"Select All" (Control+A) to highlight a line or field of text
Is there anyone willing to take a swing at this and gain extreme popularity in the Wizard and Apache community? Thanks!

Is no one else interested in having additional keyboard functionality on the Wizard or Apache?!

[Alpha] PPC-RC (need some help too ;))

Alright, So I have this Universal, and I love it. Then one day, I figured that it shows a certain resemblance to something else...
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
See the resemblance?
A keyboard?
Two extra keys?
A touch-pad/touch-screen?
So I figured, why am I still ****ing with this media center keyboard and it's silly joystick-for-mouse thing? I got a full fledged remote control as a phone!
After two days and a lot of stupid windowing and socket coding later, I had a semi working app
I've attached it here. It's still alpha, so only download if you want to test, it's not ready for real usage yet
What it does at this point? You can move the mouse, but it will be pretty jerky, and you can type
What is still to do?
- Proper protocol, not some dumb-ass dynamic package size ****
- Soft keys -> mouse buttons
- Proper server application, system tray icon and all
- Password protection
- Some more neat features
- Maybe some features people recommend
How does it work? run PPCRCServerTest.exe on your PC, and run PPCRCClient.exe on your device. tap the screen, enter IP or hostname (for some reason hostnames only seem to look up if connected through activesync...), and hit connect. Once it says "Connected", start typing and moving touching your screen
Also, please note that for some reason WiFi seems to be faster than ActiveSync. I have no idea why, but it just does... odd uh?
So what do I need back in return?
- Feedback
- How on EARTH to know when a soft-key is pressed and released
That's pretty much it
Remember, just a little preview, not ready for real use yet!
Bye,
TB

Hi TheBlasphemer.
I don't have a uni, but your app still sounds pretty neat.
Here's something that might help you alone (if you haven't found it yourself yet):
There is a function called SetWindowsHookEx. I haven't played with it much, but I know it lets you hook the keyboard (all of it) and handle all key events up / down. If I am not mistaken it returns the address of the previous function so you can delegate the keys you don't want to handle back to the system. Kind of like window subclassing.
Now all you need is some debug prints to figure out what VK codes respond to the soft keys and you are done.
Good luck!

levenum said:
Hi TheBlasphemer.
I don't have a uni, but your app still sounds pretty neat.
Here's something that might help you alone (if you haven't found it yourself yet):
There is a function called SetWindowsHookEx. I haven't played with it much, but I know it lets you hook the keyboard (all of it) and handle all key events up / down. If I am not mistaken it returns the address of the previous function so you can delegate the keys you don't want to handle back to the system. Kind of like window subclassing.
Now all you need is some debug prints to figure out what VK codes respond to the soft keys and you are done.
Good luck!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually as my window is the top window, I already receive all key events through WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP, so there's no need for windows hooks and stuff
I have looked into what happens when someone presses a softkey, but I only seem to get two weird keyup events when I release it :S (VK 112+16 and VK 113 + 16). I could use these, but as I could only see when they're clicked, I would only be able to do mouse clicks, not dragging
Btw, it should also work on other PPCs, like the wizard

Hi
Just tried on my BA WM5. It connects (it says connected on the PC server) then it closes the connection immediatelly for a reason. But this looks like a promising app so I'll keep on tracking it...
P.S: Do you plan to release the source code? (I'm a beginner programmer, examples are always good )

who uses the standard keyboard?

there are a zillion keyboard out there but no of them seem to be right for me, i like the standard one since i can type way faster with the standard wm keyboard, but i just wish it was a tad bigger. there is a way to make it larger but that removes the number buttons from the top keyboard and i'd like to keep them.
so my question is to everyone, (i know there are some that prefer the good 'ole standard keyboard) is there any possible way to make it larger?
i was searching and while this one looks a little bigger, it has the same layout as the standard one:
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
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im not even sure where to get the keyboard in the pic above it looks around the same size as the standard keyboard but the buttons look a tad bigger.
can anyone help increasing the size of the default keyboard?

you can try Resco Keyboard or ZoomBoard if you haven't already, they use the default keyboard as a basis (stuff like gestures are the same), then expand. Otherwise, no, the keyboard in your picture doesn't have big buttons, it's just a keyboard skin (I think it's from Marshall of MarshallWaitCursor fame)

maybe it being a picture makes the keys look bigger..
if it can be skinned, i will figure it out... i wasn't aware the keyboard could be skinned.

I mainly use the slide down keyboard on my 8525, but when Im to lazy to pull it down, I use the HTC keypad to quckly send some texts.

For texts i use Phone Pad, which works quite well as a T9 input system, not yet found a full QWERTY one i can use reliably with my thumb and that my Trinity will consistently open. There is a known issue with Trinitys and alternate SIPs.

you should be able to make them a little bigger if under options you chose large keys (you can even keep the number row if you chose to use gestures). they're still pretty small though.

You can find that keyboard skin over at Marshall Skins Site & it's called
(Marshall Keyboard Skin) - Crossbow
http://www.marshallskins.ilbello.com/php5/htdocs/downloads.php

PocketCM keyboard is like the standard keyboard but bigger. Works very well for a full-sized qwerty keyboard on a small touchscreen device.

Well if you haven't already, try Touchpal. I have a mogul and use touchpal instead of the slide out. I love it!!!
http://www.cootek.com/

[TIP] Move your keyboard to the bottom

Hello
I was making one application that would resemble more Android-like design: keyboard on the bottom, the main soft keys above it.
Well that is not possible to do both system-wide, but one half of that is. To move your keyboard to the total bottom of the screen, just edit registry:
Code:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Sip:
DefaultMenuBarHeight=dword:0
MenuBarHeight=dword:0
what happens after reboot is this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Advantages? Extra 64px (on WM6.5.3 and similar) of screen, no useless soft keys in these occasions.
Now, how do you hide the keyboard? Just, as on Android, press BACK key (on HD2 tested, TP2 and TD2 should work the same I suppose, but make backup first ).
Regards, OndraSter
Update: it seems that it doesn't work on all ROMs. I was using CRACIN's HD2 ROM, where it worked. I now flashed GTX Energy ROM and it doesn't work. Weird.

There is no DefaultMenuBarHeight in Sip there is only MenuBarHeight.
I'm using htc touch2. How can i do this? Thanks

This is dependant on the ROM and SIP itself. Try changing the MenuBarHeight itself if it isn't enough.
Btw, this won't work with any newer position fix - like ultrashot's uTask, since it tries to fix the keyboard too.

Heyi tried to change the MenuBarHeight and it was okey then but pressing back button make me go to the homescreen so it isn't for me. Thanks anyway dude great job.

Appearantly Touch 2 works different than Leo

You're right !
Having disabled Utask's position fix feature, I was able to move the SIP vertical position to anywhere I wanted !
The DefaultMenuBarHeight value can be manually added (I did), provided it has any actual effect.
Unfortunately, the Back button generally applies to the current app rather than to the keyboard, that sometimes even stays open (it actually depends on the app ! ), so it can't be used straight on.
But there are a lot of alternatives, such as remapping a hardware key with AEButton plus (now freeware), for instance.
This nice trick should probably be best used with a SIP featuring it's own closing button, such as FingerKeyboard (though it already has an option to overlap the softkeybar in landscape mode, and since it's fully customizable, you should be able to setup the vertical offset in portrait too, regardless of the actual registry values).

[TouchAnyway]Most powerful Wintablet App,Virtual Mouse,Gamepad,NightMode,power-save

A new cool way to play your windows tablet[Introducing Touch Anyway]
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Introducing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWWk47l_Lks
Virtual Gamepad
https://www.youtube.com/embed/bvWmEMKOuyo
This feature lets you configure and layout your own Virtual Controller. You can move and re-size buttons, configure a joystick or gamepad and label your controls. It supports most of games and software in windowed mode by simulating different kinds of keyboard operations like shortcuts, joysticks and mouse click, etc.
Therefore, you can use it to play FPS games like Call of Duty, Minecraft or other Emulator games including PPSSPP.
Virtual Mouse
https://www.youtube.com/embed/rEeYTdbYoq4
Users can precisely control the mouse pointer on touch screen, just like using the touchpad on laptop. So it is so convenient that you control the windows program by touching the screen without real mouse, like doing efficient document work.
Video Assistant
https://www.youtube.com/embed/JTFOIUFp_wc
This function can let users control most of the video players by providing fast forward, backward, screen lock and light control and volume control with simple gestures, etc.
Night Mode
https://www.youtube.com/embed/y_F4D91CR5U
This feature provides users with customized transparent keyboard. And it can allow users to navigate IE browser in night mode and lower the lightness of the screen beyond the system Configuration.
(We do really care about your eyes health)
Others
https://www.youtube.com/embed/m5NJCQAXaTU
Besides, Touch Anyway support Mem-cleaner with simple click and Efficient sleep, which can automatically turn off WIFI to save your tablet’s power and re-open the WIFI when you wake it up.
This APP is free,you can try for free forever even trial period is end,you just cannot get update and setting configuration.
getlink:http://saen.weipaifan.com/

I already have a premium app that I use.
This is an awesome app: D
Many thanks for permission to use

It is cool...Can this app be applied on Windows 8.1 platform?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/windows-8-rt/general/tutorial-onsceen-gamepad-touchpad-t3104501
china version no trial period limit , only can't support 8-axis

Does it works in RT?

Hello,
have someone any information about this software? I was blind and just buyied, but its not working anymore - cant download engine, page is offline. Or have someone any similar software?
I tryed instal china version, but it always redirect me to microsoft "EU" store...
Thanks for response, I have Onda V919 dual boot, with W10 home last version...

cant seem to download from baidu...