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Re: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

saumil — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:30:29 GMT

when i tried this code,it didn't work it shows error in keboardcontext error

Re: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

rokie29 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:37:01 GMT

Idk but sounds tight and id so get it

Re: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

verinder — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:23:08 GMT

Hi,

Thanks a ton for showing this implementation to me. I want to create a Punjabi Keyboard. Is it possible to switch to keyboard language for which windows phone 7 doesn't support font yet? I have font files for Punjabi language in desktop. Can you give me some more background on how to do this part.

Re: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

aleeb — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:09:30 GMT

I could resolve the error: It has to do with the Background.jpg file. It has to be set to Resource, Do not copy. And when checking in the WMAppManifest.xml, make sure:

BackgroundImageURI IsRelative="true" IsResource="false">Background.jpgBackgroundImageURI>

(the extension must be .jpg, I think it might have been .png in my WMAppManifest).

Clean and Rebuild worked after that.

Re: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

aleeb — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:39:54 GMT

I get the same error: Xap packaging failed. I checked, the version is 7.0

Re: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

edwardlin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:05:22 GMT

Hi Pencho,

Thanks for your reply. I rebuilded solution, but error is the same.

I want to code Chinese SIP more flexible(use Model-View–ViewModel pattern), but I got a bottleneck. Could you explain how to create keyboard buttons programmatically(not to code in xaml) more detail?

Re: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

ppopadiyn — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:45:28 GMT

Hi edwardlin,

This is very strange. I think you should not have any problems to compile the project for WP 7.1. In fact, I haven't installed the Mango tools on my PC yet. Did you try Clean Solution or Rebuild Solution? I really don't have any idea.

Re: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

edwardlin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:57:16 GMT

Hi Pencho,

I can't build your code with Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Beta 2. Error is "Xap packaging failed. Object reference not set to an instance of an object. WP7.BulgarianKeyboard.Client".

Please help, thanks.

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

metphone — Sat, 21 May 2011 12:28:28 GMT

for Turkish keyboard you can use http://metphone.blogspot.com/

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

Andrea Marras — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:09:35 GMT

Hi, does a homebrew app exist to change original keyboard into this one?

I am an italian user who wants to use a keyboard similar to the one you created (with latin letters), because your keyboard has the keys more distant then the wp7's original keys ..

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

ruby — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:33:11 GMT

actually i also made a custom keypad but i used textbox instead of textblock because i want some textbox features.The problem is on textbox focus. If i transfer the textbox focus to some other control then i will no get the cursor movement. i want cursor movement as well as my custom keypad should be on the top.

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

ppopadiyn — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:06:33 GMT

Hello ruby,

If you want additional effects (as you said "cursor position") you have to exert additional efforts.

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

ruby — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:30:22 GMT

that's really helpful. but wat to do if i want cursor position also

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

ppopadiyn — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:26:43 GMT

Hello maximv,

I am familiar with the service that yallaapps provides. However as far as I know yallaapps is focused on countries from the Middle East and Africa. I think Bulgaria is not amongst the eligibible countries. Though thank you for the suggestion.

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

maximv — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:15:25 GMT

Hey,

I think now you can create a developer account. Please visit www.yallaapps.com

It is new service for countries that are not included into AppHub.

let me know offline if you have any issues.

I'll send you my email contact offline.

good work.

Maxim

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

RSK — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:05:56 GMT

Thanks a lot :). By the way, only modification I am doing in the keyboard is the support for fonts. App I am writing needs to display keyboard in an Indian language. If I use unicode string mappings for indian language alphabets, they just show up as boxes in Windows Phone. Probably they don't have full support for Unicode characters yet. May be, you can have the in-built support for using Fonts in your base classes. That will be pretty useful for other people looking for same thing :).

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

ppopadiyn — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:12:18 GMT

Hi RSK,

Thank you about your interest. Since I am providing the source code, feel free to use it and modify it as you want. Just when you are ready and upload it in the marketplace, let me see what is the end result :). If you have any further questions or remarks, let me know.

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

RSK — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:59:37 GMT

Thanks a lot for sharing the code for writing custom keyboard. I am writing an app, in which I am planning to create a keyboard for my language. Is it okay if I use your WP7.Keyboard project in my app (with some modifications) ?

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

ppopadiyn — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:21:25 GMT

Hi IlEdVal,

I could easily unlock my phone and deploy illegal applications (there are programs that allows me to download xap files from the marketplace), but that's not the point here.

RE: Windows Phone 7–Creating Custom Keyboard

peSHIr — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:17:49 GMT

I understand your frustration. It is already frustrating being in the Netherlands, but at least we don't have the problem of different characters and not being able to get a developer account.

However, as soon as Bulgarian is supported, the problem you mention (switching between English and Bulgarian keyboard) is no problem, as WP7 supports selecting multiple keyboard layouts you normally switch between. This is just like doing so in Desktop Windows, and when you select more than one, the space bar on the SIP becomes smaller to show a language switch button, which also switches the keyboard layout. I know this works between EN/FR/DE which is already supported. There is no reason to suspect this won't work with Bulgarian and English as soon as WP7 supports Bulgaria.

Of course, there is still no indication on when this will be. Good luck with that! :-/