did somebody know of a virtual/touch keyboard that have the arrow keys in the basic layout for the captivate?? like a hardware keyboard?? in the original and first screen not in some hide menu??? i think the evo4 have it, could it be port to captivate??
Its not hidden away in the menus. just press and hold the 123 key and they pop right up. There are a lot of features in the captivate that work this way.
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awesome! i was starting to get annoyed at my fat fingers for not being able to go to my misspelled words! arrows make it much easier
thanks!
migsims, thanks for the tip, but thats what i call a hiden menu (maybe im incorrect) what i want is a keyboard that has the arrows in the basic layout, in the first page
Is there an equivalent way to bring up these arrow keys using the swype keyboard?
baroy said:
Is there an equivalent way to bring up these arrow keys using the swype keyboard?
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Ah, just figured it out! swype from the swype key to the SYM key brings it right up
baroy said:
Ah, just figured it out! swype from the swype key to the SYM key brings it right up
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Freakin' sweet! I've been wanting this for a long time. I really love Swype for it's layout and special character positions, but never use the sliding feature.
Still looking for an APK that will enable the mic on 2.1. I bricked going to 2.2 and I'm hesitant to move to 2.2 until Clockwork is fully functional...
That seems to only be for the samsung default keyboard (I'll assume swype too) because when I press and hold the ?123 key, I get a popup menu for the Android keyboard (keyboard settings and input method). Or is as usual that I'm missing something?
Any insight?
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Does anybody have an idea how to get the arrow keys on the android keyboard? The holding of the ...123 key doesn't seem to work for this keyboard?
Thanks.
You don't need it on FroYo. There's a blue teardrop shaped handle to scrub text. It pops up once you tap in the text field.
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...and if one isn't on Froyo yet? I can't imagine the arrows aren't there in eclair.
Thoughts?
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...and if one isn't on Froyo yet? I can't imagine the arrows aren't there in eclair.
Thoughts?
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arrows are in eclair, blue teardrop thingy isnt.
in swype slide from the "swype" key (the one with the blue s on it in the lowwer left) to the "sym" key directly to the right of it.
in samsung keyboard... hell i dont rememer it's not there in froyo. someone else can answer that.
in stock android you dont have arrows. sorry but that keyboard is useless anyway, no multi touch means typing is slowwwwww.
now i wonder if the droid x keyboard has arrows it's fully touch screen.. i have used it and find it less natural to type on, just not my preference, it's a good keyboard, a bit better than the samsung one in functioality but my fingers just miss the key, go figure....
Other reasons for wanting arrows would be for ssh and terminals
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hello,
im not sure if anyone found this to be a problem, but i would love to have a keyboard with a send button in landscape mode without having to hide keyboard
i have found that if you flip the phone back to it's normal position, the keyboard goes back to its normal self with a send button. i've been doing that lately instead of hiding the keyboard.
yeah i was just wondering if there was something that didnt involve the hide/turning phone. just type and send.
+1 I would like to know about this too. Maybe someone can do a IME mod
Puma81 said:
+1 I would like to know about this too. Maybe someone can do a IME mod
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the htc ime mod can do this in the stock messaging app, theres an option to use the enter key as send. OR you can disable the fullscreen l;landscape all together so that you still see the text field with the send button next to it.
I find it easiest to simply hit the hard back button which hides the keyboard. Unfortunately I do like using paragraphs in my posts too much to want my return key changed to a send key.
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I find it easiest to simply hit the hard back button which hides the keyboard. Unfortunately I do like using paragraphs in my posts too much to want my return key changed to a send key.
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AFAIK the htc ime mod only assigns the return key to send while using the stock messaging app. It should not affect your need for using paragraphs while using any other app.
Yes, this would be a good mod. If you could fit a "Send" key somewhere on the keyboard
I picked up this keyboard when it was free on the Amazon App Store a while back. It's awesome! You have several different input options:
tap-type
trace (like Swype)
voice (great recognition!)
write (like a stylus)
I use the voice method most, but all of them work really well. And unlike a lot of other aftermarket keyboards, this one has numbers and special characters on long-press (they're shown above the letters).
The only thing I'm missing coming from the stock HTC Sense keyboard is the directional buttons for moving the cursor around text fields - without a trackball, it's kind of a pain to move around by touching. At least this keyboard has a 'pointer' you can drag around, which makes it a little easier.
Any other great keyboards out there?
I'd like a keyboard I could fully customize. I'd love to be able to remove the buttons that I never use and just get in the way (voice button, language button, etc).
I'd also like to force the predictive text to pick the words I want by default. Typing "aren't" always tries to replace it with "seen" grrrr.
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I'd like a keyboard I could fully customize. I'd love to be able to remove the buttons that I never use and just get in the way (voice button, language button, etc).
I'd also like to force the predictive text to pick the words I want by default. Typing "aren't" always tries to replace it with "seen" grrrr.
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Try Gingerbread keyboard. It auto corrects. Plus u can add ur own custom words like cud, wud, etc.
I also got it free from Amazon and have to agree flex t9 is pretty awesome
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rob1216 said:
I also got it free from Amazon and have to agree flex t9 is pretty awesome
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SwiftKey X is a good one to use too. There's a free beta in the market, and by far the best keyboard I've used
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Try Gingerbread keyboard. It auto corrects. Plus u can add ur own custom words like cud, wud, etc.
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+1
The arrow keys on Gingerbread are hidden but can be brought in by just dragging the spacebar up and hidden by dragging it down, which I like since I hardly use them but still need them every once in a while
Is there a way to make the keyboard default to FlexT9 or Swiftkey or whatever you have installed? It's kind of annoying to have to set it up every time I restart the phone.
Hey..I'm using a motorola defy and I'm on cm7 and I installed Swype beta from Swype website but it has a enter button instead of a smiley button...I was just wondering If there's a way to get a smiley button on Swype...thanks in advance
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Hey..I'm using a motorola defy and I'm on cm7 and I installed Swype beta from Swype website but it has a enter button instead of a smiley button...I was just wondering If there's a way to get a smiley button on Swype...thanks in advance
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Don't know how helpful it is, but from what I can tell, the smiley button is dependent on how the application calls Swype (or whatever input you have selected).
I have two SMS apps, one of which defaults to single-line entry, the other is the stock one.
The stock app has the enter key, the app with single line entry has the smiley button. I haven't been able to figure out how to force one mode or the other...
aks.techscience said:
Hey..I'm using a motorola defy and I'm on cm7 and I installed Swype beta from Swype website but it has a enter button instead of a smiley button...I was just wondering If there's a way to get a smiley button on Swype...thanks in advance
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With latest version of beta Swype and go SMS pro, smiley button is available. Dunno if it's working with stock apps etc..
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If ur app has a single entry line..u will get the smileys for me it's stock.
But I use go SMS pro it doesn't have a single entry line and so Swype has an return key in place smiley...but I don't know how to change it..someone above said the said the versa, but this is how it works.
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With latest version of beta Swype and go SMS pro, smiley button is available. Dunno if it's working with stock apps etc..
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I updated to the latest version of Swype but I don't see an option for smiley button...I went to preferences but there's nothing about a smiley button
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Hey just curious on how to change my keyboard while in any app that uses the keyboard to input text. I tried to press and hold an empty space on the screen and the input method never pops up like on all other Android versions.
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Nevermind I figured it out. When you are typing there is a keyboard notification at the top and you just have to click it to change keyboard
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Thanks! I was caught off guard too.
Long pressing the space bar also does the job. I miss gb where all you do is swipe the spare bar to change languages
Any way to do this automatically "per-application"?
When I'm in terminal emulator I want to use hackers keyboard, but I'm fine with standard in other places (like writting sms).
I feel retarded
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Nevermind I figured it out. When you are typing there is a keyboard notification at the top and you just have to click it to change keyboard
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THANK YOU!!! I saw this when I first updated then forgot. Thanks for the reminder!!!
dpc.ucore.info said:
Any way to do this automatically "per-application"?
When I'm in terminal emulator I want to use hackers keyboard, but I'm fine with standard in other places (like writting sms).
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I would love to be able to do that. I use chrome as my browser and it does not play nice with swype. When deleting text it skips to the middle of words and sometimes when typing a word it will use the suggestion automatically before I'm even done typing the word.
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I would love to be able to do that. I use chrome as my browser and it does not play nice with swype. When deleting text it skips to the middle of words and sometimes when typing a word it will use the suggestion automatically before I'm even done typing the word.
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u would have to see whtas happening with my Swype on JB from time to time... hahaha
adleyh2000 said:
Nevermind I figured it out. When you are typing there is a keyboard notification at the top and you just have to click it to change keyboard
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tnx for your good reply...:good:
Thanks a milion
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I realize I liked the Samsung keyboard (I switched to CM so it is gone). I used to use smartkeyboard but they've never added slide typing or whatever you call it when you slide your finger around the keyboard.
So anyway, does anyone really love a particular keyboard and why?
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sharonbw said:
I realize I liked the Samsung keyboard (I switched to CM so it is gone). I used to use smartkeyboard but they've never added slide typing or whatever you call it when you slide your finger around the keyboard.
So anyway, does anyone really love a particular keyboard and why?
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Have you tried SwiftKey Tablet?
It's not free but it has the swiping feature, and in landscape mode it splits into two halves so you can type with your thumbs.
The Google Keyboard is free, and also has the swipe feature.
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Have you tried SwiftKey Tablet?
It's not free but it has the swiping feature, and in landscape mode it splits into two halves so you can type with your thumbs.
The Google Keyboard is free, and also has the swipe feature.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I actually found Swype (also not free) which I really love. It has every feature I could ask for except for one thing. It doesn't have a built in button for disappearing the keyboard. Most of the time - but not always - a button appears on my nav bar. Other than that I would call it the perfect keyboard.
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