Developing Keyman
Welcome to blog.keyman.com
As part of the transition to SIL, we’ve moved all the content from blog.tavultesoft.com to this new site, hosted on WordPress.
Using Keyman Desktop
Activation of Keyman Desktop for Network Administrators
This is a quick technical note on different ways to activate Keyman Desktop for system administrators. Activation using a command line tool The simplest way is using the command line for kmshell.exe (located in Program Files (x86)TavultesoftKeyman Desktop 8.0): kmshell.exe -activate <key> [-s] Details on kmshell commands can be found on Read more…
Developing Keyboards
Introducing the Keyman Open Source Keyboard Repository
We have many hundreds of keyboard layouts online at keyman.com that cover well over a thousand languages. These keyboard layouts work on Windows, the web, iPhones, iPads and Android phones and tablets. However, most of the layouts on the website are only available in compiled form, and in the past, Read more…
Amharic
New video: type in Amharic in any app on your iPhone (or iPad)
This video shows you how you can use Keyman Pro to type in Amharic in any app on your iPhone or iPad. If you have any questions or suggestions, send us an email, or ask on Facebook or Twitter! Visit our website to learn more about the Keyman Read more…
Android
Using Keyman Engine for Android to create a system keyboard
In part 1 of this series, we looked at the steps involved in creating a basic Android app which included a Keyman in-app keyboard. In this post, we’ll work with the second sample included in the Keyman Engine for Android package, which is a very basic System Keyboard app. This Read more…
Developing Keyboards
Using Keyman Engine for Android to create a custom keyboard app
Note: You must have a license for Keyman Engine for Android in order to access the resources documented in this blog. (Purchase a license) Keyman Engine for Android allows you to use any Keyman touch keyboard in your Android app, or even to create your own system keyboard app for Read more…
Using Keyman Desktop
A simple tool to create key images
This is just a short blog post to describe our in-house tool for creating key images, such as the ones shown below. How to use the key image generator Visit http://keyman.com/support/keytemplate.php Type the key sequence you wish to use, such as Ctrl+Alt+C Backspace. You can use any Unicode character on Read more…
Developing Keyman
An improved experience with deadkeys on European hardware keyboards
For many years, Keyman Desktop has adapted layouts to work more accurately with European hardware keyboards. For example, a US English keyboard has a top alphabetic row of QWERTYUIOP, but a French keyboard has instead AZERTYUIOP. Keyman makes sure that if, for example, you are typing Greek on a French hardware Read more…
Amharic
Products we will be discontinuing in March 2015
Earlier this month, we conducted an internal review of our product offerings and development status. As a result of this review, we determined that we would stop developing and distributing several products. This is important to help us focus on improving our core products without spreading ourselves too thinly. This Read more…
Keyman for Android
Keyman Pro 2.1 – No more tofu!
No more square boxes on the web! We are pleased to announce the launch of both Keyman Pro 2.1 for iPhone and iPad and Keyman Pro 2.1 for Android. In this release we have added support for your language to websites that you visit on your phone or tablet. Keyman Pro Keyman Pro Read more…