I'm excited to announce that I (Marc Durdin) will be presenting at the Internationalization and Unicode Conference 36 in October, on the topic "From Typewriter to Touch: Multi Platform Keyboards — Challenges and Illustrations". I will be walking through a number of the complexities and challenges that may not be Read more…
For those of you with a web programming bent, the following may be of interest. We now have 2 APIs available for accessing the Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb keyboard catalogues. Both APIs are RESTful and return UTF-8 JSON format data only in their initial incarnation. Update 18 Dec 2019: These Read more…
We've just released an update to KeymanWeb 1.0 that includes fixes for a number of issues. This version is already live on www.keymanweb.com and KeymanWeb subscriptions. Internet Explorer 9 broke the On Screen Keyboard — when clicking on keys in the On Screen Keyboard, it would sometimes clear the whole Read more…
A common technique in web forms is to show a character count a-la Twitter to let the user know how many characters they have left before the field is full to the brim. Many examples online show how to update this counter with an onkeydown and/or an onkeyup event attached Read more…
While Keyman Desktop 8.0 runs fine with traditional Windows applications, by default it will not run with Metro-style applications in Windows 8, due to added security restrictions. These restrictions prevent the Keyman Engine from reading settings and keyboards when switching to a Keyman Desktop keyboard in a Metro-style application. In Read more…
Keyman Desktop includes a comprehensive API that allows you to control nearly every aspect of its behaviour. Today I’d like to focus on one small method of automating Keyman Desktop, that is, activating Keyman Desktop via script. The activation process requires three steps: Pass the license key in to Keyman Read more…
We have had a number of reports of the Enter key not working in Chrome while Keyman Desktop is active. I took on the task of investigating this issue and here's how it panned out. Note: this post will be quite technical so if that doesn't interest you, do feel Read more…
While things have appeared to be quiet at Tavultesoft over the last 2 months, we've been very busy working on a number of projects. One area I have been heavily involved in is working through bug reports and crash reports for Keyman Desktop 8.0. We did a lot of work Read more…
Since 2004, the Tavultesoft website has had a reasonable degree of Unicode support. It’s been a bit of a mixed bag, with limitations in technology choices at the time making it hard for us to achieve the level of Unicode support we wanted. In particular, our database backend (Microsoft SQL Read more…
Keyman Desktop Configuration can be run with command line arguments to simply automate a number of tasks. It is also possible to use the Keyman Desktop API to accomplish all these tasks, but some are more easily accessed via the command line. The command line program is kmshell.exe, and if Read more…