multitap (9-key) keyboard layout for N9
 

I made a multitap keyboard (like that found on symbian in portrait mode) for maliit. You can find it in mesinput with id 219060. You can also modify it freely for your language and submit it again.

One or two things I didn't find how to do were the following
1. Extended labels for keys with the cycleset attribute. (I would like to have the option to show the number on longpress)
2. Multiple character extended labels. You will notice the smiley button does not work as intended when you longpress it.
3. Autocapitalization is buggy with multitap so I had to turn it off. (Also the shift key needs to be depressed to write any other letter than the forst one of a set, because it deactivates after the first click. This also seems a bug of maliit. I will see if I can report it somewhere.

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Screenshot please? :)

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here it is!

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Hm, code example? That said, we never tried combining those two.

You can use spaces and newlines in extended labels attribute. "two words" will have two extra buttons, "two" and "words". newline needs to be encoded as XML entity though. I am probably biased because I implemented those features, but I like'em ;-)

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What I want to do is key pqrs to cycle p,q,r,s,7 and when you longpress it to show a bubble with only 7 in it.

If I undestand it correctly this should work as expected but it does not

(it outputs 5 buttons -> :, D, space, :,P instead of the intended two :D and :P)

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Definitely works as expected in master, no idea when it'll arrive on N9 though.

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That is cool, and it means we just have to wait. Anyway. any insights on the other issue? Bubbles on cycleset keys?

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looks great !!

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great, can you make a youtube video?

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Sorry, I'm too busy for that. You can easily try it though, and it's harmless. If you remove it there is no junk remaining in the phone.

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Can you make a Greek Alphanumeric Keyboard please ?

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Yes I can do that. If I happen to forget please remind me again.

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If this could support T9 as well as multitap it would be perfect...

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Anyone have an idea how we can get The arrows working like Nokia's on the swipe keyboard. Seems impossible to get marker movment. This how nokia should have implemented the default keyboard!

http://oi44.tinypic.com/28wp8vd.jpg

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would like to see it happen.

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I think it is already implemented in maliit )the framework behind the vkb) but I don't know when and whether it will reach the N9. It's fully open though so a cssu style update could do that.

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fully open and not availabe? Why is that :)

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It's just that the N9 uses an old version. If they will bother to upgrade it for pr1.2 is another question. That does not mean thought that a skilled individual can't try and compile the latest version for the N9

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Did you make the Greek Alphanumeric Keyboard qwazix ?

Thanksssssss

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Here it is, it has classic nokia layout

MESINPUT id 370049

I realized I forgot the comma, it is attached corrected (rename to xml and put in /home/user/.config/meego-keyboard/layouts)

I contacted Otso to see how I can edit the xml on mesinput

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I take your keyboard and I made some changes...

Thanks again

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Corrected the comma on mesinput

new id 373029

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Can you do this? :D
I really need..

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It's possible that a T9 plugin could be written for maliit but this is not something I am capable to do.

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I don't know what is Maliit (now I search).. I have the N9 only from a few days!
Anyway, thanks for the informations :)

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@qwazix ... can you post a link to the .xml file for the keyboard from your first post (the non-greek one) an tell me where it should go in order for it to show up in input method selection menu .

All .xml files I used , i put in (via terminal and "cp -f /home/user/MyDocs/XXXX.xml /usr/share/meegotouch/virtual-keyboard/layouts : /usr/share/meegotouch/virtual-keyboard/layouts" ) , and they show up in the list ...

folder : /home/user/.config/meego-keyboard/layouts/ did not exist , I created it via a file manager , but .xml file put in there do not show up .

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the easiest way is to download mesinput from the store and let it do the dirty job (search for 219060). But you can find the xml here http://www.mesinput.com/api/vkblayouts/xml/219060

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Alphanumeric in Spanish (Ñ)
PLEASE.

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Thanks ... I did what you said moments after I posted the question here ( because it was fishy that mesinput had all those xml files on the site but no app to use it with , so I went to the store and voila,there was an mesinput app there - forgive me for sounding like such a noob , my first encounter with MeeGo was the day I posted a message here ) :)

Offtopic P.S. :
MeeGo tastes better than Android any time of day . Much better . Too bad that official support is dead .