Spb Full Screen Keyboard Help

Overview

Full Screen Keyboard smoothes over one of the main disadvantages of using Pocket PC - text input. Now you can type texts with your fingertips using the whole Pocket PC screen. The keyboard layout is very close to the original desktop PC keyboard layout to enable easy and comfortable typing. The default landscape-oriented full screen layout is designed specially for typing the text using your fingers. Full Screen Keyboard is especially useful for entering large amounts of text.

Skins
Full Screen Keyboard is fully skinnable. You can download more skins from Spb website, use the third-party ones, or wholly customize the appearance of your keyboard by creating your own skins. Localization to any language is provided by skins, too.

Custom font settings
You can control the input text font face and size. These settings will not affect the text appearance in the target application, from which you called Full Screen Keyboard.

"Quick hardware button"
You can assign one of hardware buttons to quick show/hide Full Screen Keyboard. To do so you must use the standard way of assigning hardware buttons on Pocket PC. Go to Settings -> Buttons from the main menu of Pocket PC. Assign a certain button to Full Screen Keyboard as described there.

Word completion
Full Screen Keyboard has its own word completion engine. The engine suggests words as you type based on the dictionary. Word suggestion is customizable so you can choose a number of entered letters for suggestion, change a dictionary, attach a user dictionary, etc. Full Screen Keyboard word completion mechanism does not depend on the standard Pocket PC built-in word completion mechanism.

Correction
The word correction algorithm is a new powerful feature of Full Screen Keyboard. The program detects unknown words as you type and corrects you if you've done an obvious misprint. The other algorithm works with complete words and substitutes the unknown words with those you really meant to type. The level of the algorithm aggressivity can be customized in program options.

See also
Full Screen Keyboard Help
Function Keys

Function Keys

In addition to common keys, Spb Full Screen Keyboard contains an additional key Fn. This key activates an alternate key input mode. When in this mode, pressing any key that includes an alternate blue symbol will produce that alternate symbol. For example, pressing "D" will produce a "+" (plus) sign. This alternate mode is activated for one single tap, afterwards you return to normal typing.

See also
Full Screen Keyboard Help

Keyboard Options

In this dialog you can customize the character repeat settings. When you tap-and-hold on a character button, the corresponding character will be entered repeatedly.

- Repeat rate (ch/s): The number of characters entered in a second when the key is pressed for a long time.
- Repeat delay (ms): The time interval to wait before the character repeating starts.

Another kind of options you can customize here deal with button press visualization.

- Pressing buttons: If selected, the pressed button will be highlighted. Please keep in mind that if you unselect this check box then it will save you some additional memory and speed up the process.
- Target sign when pressed: If selected, you will see the target sign everywhere you touch the screen with your finger. You will find this feature practical to improve your fingertip typing technique and better aim the buttons.

Full Screen Keyboard Help
System Options
Keyboard Options
Skin Options
Sound Options
Word Completion Options
Correction Options
Dictionary Options

Font Options

Note. These settings are used only by Full Screen Keyboard and do not affect the font settings of other applications such as Pocket Word or Excel.

- Input string font size controls the font size for an input text panel. Lower values will allow you to see more symbols at once, but higher ones are more convenient to read.
- Input string font sets the font face for displaying the text in the text input panel of Full Screen Keyboard.
- Bold will display the entered letters in bold.

Full Screen Keyboard Help
System Options
Keyboard Options
Skin Options
Sound Options
Word Completion Options
Correction Options
Dictionary Options

Sound Options

Scheme: Select one of the Default, No sound, and any number of your personal customized schemes. To add or delete your own scheme, tap an Add or Delete button.

According to a chosen scheme you will see sounds for the input events enabled or disabled for editing. If you create your own sound scheme, select a sound from the corresponding list of the input events. For any chosen sound you may play it by tapping the 'play' button near it. Tap 'stop' to stop playing.

Full Screen Keyboard Help
System Options
Keyboard Options
Skin Options
Sound Options
Word Completion Options
Correction Options
Dictionary Options

Word Completion Options

These options are quite the same as those of common input options concerning word completion. The only difference is that the Full Screen Keyboard options work with word completion in this very program, not affecting the behavior of other input methods.

Suggest words when entering text: Enable or disable word completion.

Suggest after entering ... letters: Provide a number of symbols to be entered to provoke suggestion.

Add a space after suggested word: If a suggested word is accepted, a space will be added after it.

Full Screen Keyboard Help
System Options
Keyboard Options
Skin Options
Sound Options
Word Completion Options
Correction Options
Dictionary Options

Skin Options

In this dialog you can select a skin for your Full Screen Keyboard application. All the installed skins can be selected from the drop-down list. The currently selected skin is displayed in the center.

You may wish to add more skins for your application. To do so, select Tools -> Download skins. This will open a web page on the www.spbsoftwarehouse.com with lots of skins available for free download. Your device should be connected to Internet if you want to download a skin right to your Pocket PC. Otherwise you can download the skin to your desktop PC and then upload it to your Pocket PC.

Information about skin files format and creating your own skins can be obtained from the corresponding manual (Spb Full Screen Keyboard User Manual.pdf at http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com).

Full Screen Keyboard Help
System Options
Keyboard Options
Skin Options
Sound Options
Word Completion Options
Correction Options
Dictionary Options

How to Open the Options Dialog

To go to Spb Full Screen Keyboard options, tap the SIP button to call the list of available input methods. In the menu there is also an Options menu. Tap it and select Full Screen Keyboard from the drop-down menu. Tap the Options... button to open Full Screen Keyboard options.

Full Screen Keyboard Help
System Options
Keyboard Options
Skin Options
Sound Options
Word Completion Options
Correction Options
Dictionary Options

System Options

- Default input method. Full Screen Keyboard is very handy for entering large amounts of text. However it is not often needed. More often you need to enter small texts, even just a few words. For these cases you will use a standard input method, defined by this option. When you call it you can always open Full Screen Keyboard by tapping a small keyboard image at the top left corner of the SIP.
- Close fullscreen on "Enter": automatically closes the Full Screen Keyboard when the 'Enter' button is pressed. If you intend to enter large amounts of text you would better keep this check box unselected.
- Get selection into fullscreen: this option allows you to capture the selected text from the active application. This captured text, in return, will be added to the Full Screen Keyboard input line.
- Unload on close: makes the Full Screen Keyboard application unload from the memory when closed. This saves your memory when you don't use Full Screen Keyboard, but increases the loading time.
- Rotate skin: If selected, the skin will be rotated 180 degrees.

Full Screen Keyboard Help
Keyboard Options
Skin Options
Sound Options
Word Completion Options
Correction Options
Dictionary Options

Correction Options

- Use smart correction algorithms. Select to enable special algorithms that allow you to get rid of the essential part of errors in typing.
- Correct words (None, Light, Normal, Aggressive): Specify the level of word correction. Each word is corrected after being typed. If the word is not found in dictionary it is substituted with the closest one. If you select the lowest level (Light), then the word will be substituted only with the most obvious variants. Higher levels provide more variants for substitution.
- Correct letters (None, Light, Normal, Aggressive): This correction algorithm works as you enter the word. If the program detects an error substitutes the last entered character with the closest one in accordance with the keyboard layout and dictionary.
- Capture stats: If selected, the program will remember the statistics of your presses coordinates for every button. This will allow the program handle your presses in a more accurate way.
- Reset Stats: Tap this button to reset the statistics collected while using Full Screen Keyboard. It's recommended to reset statistics when a user of the Pocket PC is changed.
- Capitalize the first letter of sentences and the pronoun "I": This option is self-explanatory.

Full Screen Keyboard Help
System Options
Keyboard Options
Skin Options
Sound Options
Word Completion Options
Dictionary Options

Dictionary Options

As you enter more and more texts, the program encounters more and more words not found in its main dictionary. It may store these words in a user dictionary.

- Use User Dictionary. Select to enable using the user dictionary. The program will look for newly entered words in this dictionary, too.
- Add words to User Dictionary: Select to enable automatic adding words to the user dictionary.
- View User Dictionary: Tap to view the list of all words stored by the program in the user dictionary.
- Clear User Dictionary: Tap to clear the dictionary.

See also
Full Screen Keyboard Help
System Options
Keyboard Options
Skin Options
Sound Options
Word Completion Options
Correction Options

Full Screen Keyboard Help
Overview
Function Keys
How to Open the Options Dialog