06-02-2005, 07:00 PM
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TextPlus for Windows Mobile Released
"TextPlus is a predict text input tool that can significantly improve the speed and accuracy of text entry on your Palm OS or Windows Mobile devices. TextPlus supports intelligent dictionary-based suggestion of words and phrases to speed up your text entry. When you enter one or more letters of a word or a phrase in any Palm OS or Windows Mobile application, a list of words and a list of phrases that start with these letters are displayed. When you tap on any of the words or any of the phrases, your choice is automatically inserted at the current cursor location. One unique feature of TextPlus is its frequency-based intelligent search engine, which chooses only frequently used words and phrases for suggestion. The frequency of each word and phrase is updated automatically as you use TextPlus so that the speed and accuracy of your text entry would increase over time."
Ex-Palm users may be familiar with TextPlus, which has just been released for the Pocket PC. If you're interested in giving this input tool a go, a trial version can be downloaded from Handango, who also happens to be selling the application for $19.95. [Affiliate]
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06-02-2005, 10:15 PM
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Intellectual
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Thanks for the heads up on this. I bought it as soon as I saw this post because I had great experience with TextPlus on Palm devices. At first I was disappointed, until I found out that the options let me adjust the font of the word and phrase list and lets me chose the input method (I normally use the Fitaly keyboard as my default).
This is one of the handiest tools I've ever come across for speeding up text entry. And, one of the really neat features is that you can add your own word and phrase list to the database.
Great tool. This is one of the things I missed most about the Palms.
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06-03-2005, 12:18 AM
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Pupil
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Are there any instructions on how to get it to work or change the options? I installed it and it puts an entry on the keyboard types, but nothing happens when I check it.
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06-03-2005, 12:24 AM
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So is this a separate SIP, or an add-on to existing SIPs?
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06-03-2005, 12:35 AM
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Intellectual
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Originally Posted by rmac
Are there any instructions on how to get it to work or change the options? I installed it and it puts an entry on the keyboard types, but nothing happens when I check it.
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Tap to select your SIP. On my x50v, I have the following options:
Block Recognizer
Fitaly
Keyboard
Letter Recognizer
TextPlus
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Select TextPlus. Then at the top of the SIP selection menu there is an Options item. Select it to go in and change the options. It will allow you to select which Input Method you want to use with it - it defaults to keyboard, but you can choose from any of the input methods that you have. I selected Fitaly because that is what I use most often. There are other options you can tinker with after that. For example, there is a font option, and I had to choose a font of 30 for it to be just right for me on my x50v - on a QVGA screen, its default setting will probably do fine, but its default was way to small for my eyes on my VGA screen.
I suspect you'll really like it after you tinker with it for awhile.
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06-03-2005, 12:52 AM
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Thx. I'll have to get this as Fitaly is my preferred input method as well but I find its suggestion list to be rather anemic, especially having transitioned from Calligrapher.
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06-03-2005, 01:03 AM
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Pupil
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Originally Posted by bvkeen
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Originally Posted by rmac
Are there any instructions on how to get it to work or change the options? I installed it and it puts an entry on the keyboard types, but nothing happens when I check it.
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Tap to select your SIP. On my x50v, I have the following options:
Block Recognizer
Fitaly
Keyboard
Letter Recognizer
TextPlus
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Select TextPlus. |
That's the problem. When I try to select TextPlus, it doesn't get selected. The selection just stays on "Keyboard". There must be some conflict. Sounds like a good program, but a bit expensive.
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06-03-2005, 01:25 AM
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Intellectual
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Originally Posted by rmac
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Originally Posted by bvkeen
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Originally Posted by rmac
Are there any instructions on how to get it to work or change the options? I installed it and it puts an entry on the keyboard types, but nothing happens when I check it.
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Tap to select your SIP. On my x50v, I have the following options:
Block Recognizer
Fitaly
Keyboard
Letter Recognizer
TextPlus
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Select TextPlus. |
That's the problem. When I try to select TextPlus, it doesn't get selected. The selection just stays on "Keyboard". There must be some conflict. Sounds like a good program, but a bit expensive. |
rmac,
Unfortunately it's not very intuitive. If I hadn't been familiar with it from using it on Palm, I would have the same questions. Sounds like you're expecting it to be a separate input method (understandably), when it's not. It will still use your keyboard (or whatever you set it to use in the options), but it will overtake the built in word suggestions list and give you a better one and add a phrase suggestion list too.
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06-03-2005, 06:19 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Aug 2004
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TextPlus to the Rescue!
Darius,
Thank you again for sharing a niche product. I have been wishing for a better predictive entry similar to WordLogic but with a FITALY interface. TextPlus is the answer. Here goes another $19.95!
PS I like the Bible dictionary! :way to go:
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06-03-2005, 03:33 PM
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Pupil
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Originally Posted by bvkeen
Unfortunately it's not very intuitive. If I hadn't been familiar with it from using it on Palm, I would have the same questions. Sounds like you're expecting it to be a separate input method (understandably), when it's not. It will still use your keyboard (or whatever you set it to use in the options), but it will overtake the built in word suggestions list and give you a better one and add a phrase suggestion list too.
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No, I'm not expecting it to be a separate input method. I'm expecting to be able to select it so I can go to its options. Nothing happens when I try to select it. It seems my selecting TextPlus is being ignored.
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