Get International with TopKey

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.handango.com/brainstore/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&productId=65650' target='_blank'>http://www.handango.com/brainstore/...productId=65650</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.handango.com/include/pictures/85826/topkeyanim.gif" /><br /><br />"PDAmill TopKey is an easy and powerful input method for your Pocket PC. You can choose from lots of predefined layouts or create your own custom layout best suiting your needs. A clever self-learning predictive input boosts the speed of text input." <br /><br />• "International layouts: Choose from over 40 predefined keyboard language layouts. <br />• Quick layout changing: Add shortcuts for the different language layouts for quick access. <br />• Built-in layout editor: Customize keyboard layouts for your special needs. <br />• Self-learning predictive input: Three words predictive input, and three suggestions for the next word. The more you type, the better suggestions you will get. Let the predictive engine learn your most frequently used words. <br />• Keyboard gestures: Speed up typing by using the stylus gestures for space, backspace, enter and capital letters <br />• Fully skinned: Chose from the 4 default keyboard skins or create your own."<br /><br />Keyboard Layouts: Albanian, Azeri, Belgian, Bulgarian, Canadian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norvegian, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovanian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss (French), Swiss (German), Turkish, Ukranian, US-Dvorak. Preloaded predictive database: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian.<br /><br />You can <a href="http://download.handango.com/shareware/85826/topkeydemo.exe">download the free demo here</a> or <a href="http://www.handango.com/brainstore/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=311&productId=65650">purchase the full version for $14.95</a>. [Affiliate]

[PJE]

I downloaded the demo a week or so back, and like the way predictive text entry is implemented. The three big buttons at the top show options for the word as it is entered, and in quite a lot of cases after a couple of letters these three button allow quite a high proportion of normal words to be entered.

The main reason I haven't bought it yet, other than having bought Fitaly and Calligrapher, is that all the skins are for the same keyboard layout - i.e. with very small keys. When I use the normal built-in keyboard I always use the big keys option which makes it much easier to 'type'.

To be fully skinable - which this MAY be (but isn't clear) - the actual key shapes need to be configurable, and slides for capitals, acents, etc.. need to be assignable.

Possibly with the next revision...

My 2c.

PJE

[Noel]

Anyone tell me what a "Canadian" keyboard layout is?

:worried:

Noel

[Noel]

Difference between US and CAN keyboards appears to be an
é
which is pronunced AY (not to be confused with the Bob and Doug MacKenzie "Eh" which is the equivalent of the US "Huh")

What an interesting world we live in :roll:


Noel

[Shraga18]

http://discussion.brighthand.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78760

[Steven Cedrone]

http://discussion.brighthand.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78760

By the way, this is a "Fitaly vs. Topkey" thread... :wink:

Steve

[xerxers]

I also think that Topkey is just great.

However it is a pain that when you reset you have to re select TopKey.

I mentioned this to the developer and at this stage there is no resolution.

Xerxers

[ctmagnus]

However it is a pain that when you reset you have to re select TopKey.

I tried setting Transcriber as the default input method (using Pocket Tweak) a while ago, and after the necessary soft-reset, the PPC would continually hang at the ROM version screen (what a pain that was - create a backup, apply the tweak, soft-reset, hang, hard-reset, restore the backup, reapply the tweak, soft-reset, hang... ). So you may be better off as you are.

[phylax]

However it is a pain that when you reset you have to re select TopKey.
Xerxers

I agree on that. The developer tried to solve this, and succeeded in a way. But it wasn't safe enough, and we didn`t want to risk releasing it like that. He didn`t give up, hopefully it will be included in the next version.

[Noel]

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Noel