New stuff available for creating/editing virtual keyboards on the N900 now available - Page 17 - maemo.org

Astaoth | # 161 | 2013-03-04, 21:00 | Report

Originally Posted by bennypr0fane

Imo a portrait vkb is more important to have than a landscape one, since I'd venture the hypothesis that a huge majority of N900 users would slide out the hw keyboard when already holding it in landscape orientation...

Actually, I use landscape virtual keyboard when I've gloves.

Originally Posted by bennypr0fane

The FastSMS-Evo vkb imo is yet closest to a decent portrait vkb, but it takes about 10 secs to pop up the first time in each session.

That's why I prefer make my vkb layout.

There are still some bug in my layout :
* Shift and backspace in landscape have a bug of texture, because they are larger than in the original layout.
* With lower case, I've made a slide for accented letters. If there is not a char from a slide before, it prints the first letter (in my slide, a "é"), and after the selected char. But if before there is a char from a slide, there is no problem.
For example, if I want to write "mètre", because of this bug, I'll write "méètre" ("é" is the first char of the slide).
This bug happens with all alpha slide.

Now, some pictures and explanations :
Launched in landscape mode :

Launched in portait mode :

If the virtual keyboard is launch in lanscape, and then the smartphone is used in portrait, there will be the same display bug as reported before.

The slide from upper case has ",", "?", and "!" punctuations, the rest are in the symbol layout.

Hope I've not made lot of English faults.

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panjgoori | # 162 | 2013-04-06, 06:35 | Report

any update/news on portrait keyboard ?

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freemangordon | # 163 | 2013-04-08, 19:49 | Report

Originally Posted by panjgoori View Post

any update/news on portrait keyboard ?

unfortunately not much, maybe once CSSU engine rolls again there will be.

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ersanpermana | # 164 | 2013-04-27, 08:02 | Report

Nothing for update?
And how to change color layout?

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maki1908 | # 165 | 2013-09-17, 07:55 | Report

Sry for not going through every post but I don't get it how to change my virtual keyboard.

I assumed that if I took someone's en_US.vbk and drop it /usr/share/keyboard insted of default one I would get new layout.

But that doesn't seem to work.

Anyway thanks for all this effort

sixwheeledbeast | # 166 | 2013-09-17, 11:42 | Report

Originally Posted by maki1908 View Post

Sry for not going through every post but I don't get it how to change my virtual keyboard.

I assumed that if I took someone's en_US.vbk and drop it /usr/share/keyboard insted of default one I would get new layout.

But that doesn't seem to work.

Anyway thanks for all this effort

Read the OP!!

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