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Category: Developing Keyman

Developing Keyboards

Keyman 8.1 Keyboard Language Proposal: Extensions to Keyboard Options

Three small updates to the Keyman Desktop 8.0 keyboard options feature are proposed: testing for base layout, on screen keyboard-specific rules, and providing feedback to the end user.

By Marc Durdin, 11 years ago
Developing Keyboards

Keyman 8.1 Keyboard Language Proposal: Dynamic On Screen Keyboard

Introduction Keyman 8.0 improved mnemonic keyboards by remapping the On Screen Keyboard to the underlying hardware layout. Previous versions of Keyman did not do this well. This has been a big improvement and makes mnemonic keyboards much more useful with European hardware layouts. However, apart from this one change, we Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 11 years ago
Developing Keyman

Designing the new Tavultesoft home page

As part of the Keyman Desktop 8.0 release work, we needed to give the Tavultesoft website some attention: the pages were looking dated, and the content had grown over time and was getting out of control. The Tavultesoft website has thousands of pages of content, and finding the right content Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 12 years ago
Developing Keyman

Keyman Desktop 8.0 Default Options

Today we had a meeting to finalise the default options for Keyman Desktop 8.0, and determine how we would migrate option settings when upgrading from earlier versions of Keyman Desktop. For those of you who are interested, I reproduce the table below. Any comments or suggestions are always welcomed! Option Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 12 years ago
Developing Keyman

Adobe Reader X’s Sandbox and Keyman Desktop

Adobe recently released a secured version of Reader which includes a new security feature called sandboxing. A sandbox restricts the privileges of the PDF viewer built into Adobe Reader to access computer resources, which in turn helps to reduce the impact of as-yet undiscovered security flaws in the PDF viewer, Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 12 years ago
Developing Keyman

Installing Keyman 8

In the last week, I've spent a fair bit of time tidying up the installer.  There were a number of issues I had to resolve, such as problems upgrading when the user's admin status had been removed in between the original install and the upgrade … yep, we've had to Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 12 years ago
Developing Keyman

A case study on why you should NEVER, EVER check in a last minute fix

Yesterday we released Keyman 7!  The excitement may have been somewhat overshadowed by a rather larger product release on the same day in the US, and ironically, an update to MSKLC was released on the same day. I’m not writing about the new features etc etc – if you want Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 16 years ago
Developing Keyman

Translating the Keyman Desktop UI

The Keyman Desktop 7.0 Beta 2 UI is now both customizable and localizable.  Localization of the user interface is possible via editing a single XML file called locale.xml. The default locale.xml file is in the folder [Program Files]TavultesoftKeyman Desktop Professional 7.0xml First steps to creating a translation Find the language Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 16 years ago
Developing Keyboards

Character Map

I was editing a keyboard in Keyman Developer 6 today (European Latin) and after using the Character Map in version 6 for a few minutes started to hanker for the version 7 Character Map that I have been using for the last few weeks while preparing for Beta 1.   In Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 16 years ago
Developing Keyman

The Beta Process

We released the first beta of Keyman and Keyman Developer 7 on Friday and were very pleased by the number of people who asked to join the beta in the first day.  They have already created 15 issue reports of high quality which is very encouraging (Join the beta). After Read more…

By Marc Durdin, 16 years ago

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