We've just released another update to Keyman Desktop and Keyman Developer. In this version: We add a fix for a minor Windows 7 compatibility issue. We fix a couple of reported crashes, and an install issue on Vista that was rarely experienced. We address some bugs in the On Screen Read more…
We have published an update to KeymanWeb, v 1.0 build 136. This release makes the following updates: The Alt key is now released in the On Screen Keyboard correctly. This problem was especially evident previously when switching windows with Alt+Tab. Firefox now scrolls input and textarea controls correctly when typing Read more…
We've just published a Brazilian Portuguese user interface translation for Keyman Desktop. It can be accessed within Keyman Desktop with the following steps: Open Keyman Desktop Configuration. Click Options tab. Click User Interface Language button. Click More Languages Online button. Click Install on the Portuguese Brazilian entry. We've also made Read more…
We’ve just made the following updates to the KeymanWeb Subscriptions beta: Updated to build 128 – fixes an incompatibility with blogspot; build 127 fixed some issues with IFRAMEs in Internet Explorer Added the popular Malayalam Mozhi keyboard layout KeymanWeb Subscriptions are free to try for 30 days, and currently free Read more…
Handling text input correctly when developing a Win32 application is not as simple as it could be. The different types of messages don’t seem to be all that well understood… You need to manage quite a number of different, potentially conflicting types of input. Flaws and legacy cruft in Windows’ Read more…
What’s wrong with TranslateMessage? Two things: It probably shouldn’t be in the message loop. Different windows do different things with character and keystroke messages. Performance is not an issue here nowadays. Having TranslateMessage in the message loop has resulted in awful things such as IsDialogMessage and TranslateAccelerator calls for every Read more…
While on the topic of AddLanguageProfile – Vista changes the behaviour of this function. In Windows XP, it would install the TIP across the user’s currently installed languages, and just to be helpful, add Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean languages with the TIP installed for each of those Read more…
Some time ago, Michael Kaplan wrote about the Ctrl+Space hotkey and its broken configuration in Windows Vista. What is particularly evil about the Ctrl+Space combination is that takes control even when the language is not selected. So you can be happily typing away in US (English) or German (Austria) or Read more…
I was asked via email this morning about the changing locale.xml file format between build 223 and build 224 of Keyman Desktop. I had meant to write an update on this blog for my previous post about the file format – so here it is. We reworked the locale.xml file Read more…
I know I said I was going to write about the product management website – that will be coming soon. While reviewing the current functionality of the product management website (and I was actually getting ready for the blog post) we discovered a couple of issues, which I need to Read more…