Comments on: On-screen Keyboard UBoard Still Rocks

By: Techme

Techme — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:14:16 +0000

Hmm…I don’t see the UBoard keyboard icon in the tray. The only keyboard icon is for the Viliv soft keyboard.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:06:20 +0000

Right-click on the keyboard icon in the tray.

By: Techme

Techme — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:59:23 +0000

How do you get to the UBoard configuration screen?

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:00:11 +0000

Fantastic. Thank you.

Now if you could work out how to stop the keys lighting up….

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:53:19 +0000

Right-click on the Viliv keyboard icon in the tray, deselect Use.

Right-click on the uBoard icon. Select Properties. Put the cursor in the Shortcut Key field. Press the keyboard h/w button.

That’s it.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:25:05 +0000

James, I saw you got the Viliv keyboard button to run uBoard instead of the Viliv keyboard. How did you manage that?

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:49:14 +0000

Yep, should be there about 2 – 4 today.

By: dts

dts — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:46:00 +0000

Thanks James. Are you still planning to be at Coffee Groundz this afternoon? I would like to have a look at the Viliv S5 in person.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:34:30 +0000

I haven’t run it but it’s by the same guy.

By: dts

dts — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:12:16 +0000

James,
I think I found a copy of UBoard buried inside a CarPC tool package. Can you verify if this is the same UBoard you are using? Download CFX_Tools.zip at http://www.mobile-effects.com/skins-138.html

Thanks.

By: James

James — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:09 +0000

Does anyone have a decent WPM figure for an onscreen keyboard…? Is it much, much better for typing with the UMID, or could you possibly keep up on the S5?

By: Howard

Howard — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:37:10 +0000

I can’t download this from the Sony U Yahoo Group. But yesterday I’ve found new feature in Hot Virtual Keyboard: “Added new on-screen keyboard types FullScreen1024, FullScreen1440″.
http://hot-virtual-keyboard.com/
Is it cool or something wrong?

By: Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:29:17 +0000

Thanks for an actual usable keyboard: ZWT works great and obtainable by everyone.

By: Nurhisham Hussein

Nurhisham Hussein — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:13:11 +0000

James, have a look at the readme for ZWK. The transparency is adjustable – as well as colours, fonts, layouts, size, and just about everything else.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:47:33 +0000

The ZWK looks pretty cool but from what I’ve seen I think uBoard might be more flexible. I don’t like how the ZWK seems to take the entire screen and typing is done blind as you can’t see the text appear.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:46:26 +0000

Unfortunately this is the only place to get the file I am aware of. This program was written for the Sony U and thus the author posted it in this group.