TapTap Keyboard

Introducion

This SIP (software keyboard) for Pocket PC devices is using new TapTap Technology (www.taptaptech.wz.cz) I have developed especially for this project . As you can see from the screenshots bellow this SIP is not regular one like the others which are only making bigger controls. This SIP using the new technology is opening new way of text inputing and ever controling applications on small touch displays (e.g. 2.8" touch displays) using big controls without reducing operating space of the application. This SIP can be operated easily with only one hand and single taps. There are no gestures or other less accurate controling ways. Typing with TapTap Keyboard is not very fast but this is not the purpose of this SIP what is designed to offer you the most comfortable way of text inputing. Of course you must get used to it what takes some time but this is similar to all things which are new.
I hope you will find this SIP very usefull and essential application in your Pocket PC.

Screenshots
Here are the screenshots of TapTap Keyboard:

With single tap you can select char group (or e.g. change char panels to number char groups...) e.g. you will select first char group what contains small letters "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f" and "g".

Now you can choose char/letter what you want to write or you can use other buttons like space, backspace, enter and buttons to change char panels (small/big letters, numbers, special chars...) or to return to previous char panel.

Downloads

This SIP is working on Windows Mobile 5/6/6.5/6.5.3, it's for international users and also supports Czech and Slovak language. To download please use any downloader like Download Accelerator etc. (this is low quality free hosting).

version 1.2 RC1 (now with navigation panel - navi arrows, kontext button, close button) & basic operations panel - cut, copy, paste, delete, tab key, calculator, notes; for now there is not possible to change keys functions on these two panels but you can change the skin).
Do you miss navigation keys on your Touch HD or another today PDA? I hope new version of my keyboard can solve your problem with navigation on some stylus-like applications (and e.g. Windows Mobile settings). You can find new panels under the left top button on the ribbon (123 button > navi button) Please don't forget to download and install also VJOkButt and VJKeyPress (applications made by Vijay555) to provide functions to panels.

QVGA version with CZ-SK language layout and skin (178 636 b) - Czech users prefered
VGA version with CZ-SK language layout and skin (178 635 b) - Czech users prefered
HVGA version with CZ-SK language layout and skin (178 638 b) - Czech users prefered
Applications made by Vijay555 (VJOkButt and VJKeyPress) to provide functions to panels.

version 1.1 (now you can customize your own layout and skin! - see customization page for more details)
QVGA version with CZ-SK language layout and skin (163 362 b) - Czech users prefered
VGA version with CZ-SK language layout and skin (163 366 b) - Czech users prefered

old version 1.012 (international users can ignore language prefering and pick the version with layout the most friendly to them - both includes international chars).

QVGA version CZ-SK language version (104 912 b) - Czech users prefered
VGA version CZ-SK language version (104 924 b) - Czech users prefered
QVGA version SK-CZ language version (103 759 b) - Slovak users prefered
VGA version SK-CZ language version (103 773 b) - Slovak users prefered

Optional applications
IM Selector - for selecting default SIP.

Installation

Install TapTap Keyboard and IM Selector, run IM Selector, select TapTap Keyboard as the default SIP, tap OK/Close and soft-reset your device.
Some Windows Mobile 6 users has problems with my keyboard (it can't be loaded even they tap on it in SIP selecting on the bottom-center of the display). I have searched on the forums and found out that this is problem of some builds of Windows Mobile 6 (when you have more-memory-consuming application/s on startup). On Windows Mobile 5 (all builds) it is working without any problems. It working without problems even in Windows Mobile 6.1 v5.2.19701 (build 19400.1.0.0).

Copyrights

This application is licenced under GNU GPL and can be freely distributed for personal use. If you want to use this technology for your own project please contact me.

Acknowledgments

I want to thanks these people without them this all wouldn't be possible:
Patrick Getzmann of MSDN Forums - He practically saved my SIP project because with my poor C++ skills I couldn't finish it.
Rene Stein of CE4YOU Forums - He helped me a lot with reading from Unicode text file.
Jiri Valerian of BUILDER.CZ Forums - He helped me a lot with loading bitmaps from external file and with optimizing the code.
Saman of CE4YOU Forums - He helped me with final problem with my SIP (canvas height/width).
Christopher Fairbairn of MSDN Forums - He helped me a lot with replacing BMP images with PNG images.

Changes

1.2 RC1 Added two new panels (navigation panel & basic operations panel).
1.1 Added customization (see customization page for more details).
1.012 Missing Slovak chars added.
1.011 Uninstall issue fixed.
1.010 Two VGA versions released (high-resolution and low-resolution versions), old pink skin replaced with black skin, fixed missing equal char ("=") and some other chars added.
1.0 RC2 First release; TapTap technology was finished in January 2007 but my lack of knowledge about C++ programming has not allow me starting the realization of the native Windows Mobile keyboard.

Contact
Feel free to contact me on my e-mail bkf1@centrum.cz