[djpsyco]

Originally Posted by snovvman

I have both the Diamond and Touch Pro, and use the soft-keyboard on the Touch Pro more than the hardware keyboard. In case you didn't know, you can "press and hold" any key to invoke the shaded character on the key, or open the number pad directly by pressing the "sym" key.

It has always annoyed me that the press and hold delay was too long. If I wanted to invoke the number pad or enter numbers/symbols directly by press and hold, I had to wait a long time for each character.

I sought and found that the press and hold delay is 600 ms (that's more than 1/2 second). I decided to change the delay to 300 ms and now the keyboard experience is much more pleasant and alternate key entry is much faster.

Here is the reg-key:

HKLM\Software\Tegic\eT9\PressAndHoldTimer=600

Simply change this value to whatever you want. I find that 300 ms is very usable and reduces the wait time before a number or symbol pops up.

I have not seen this listed in the TP nor Diamond forum so I figure I'll share. If there is enough interest and people do not want to do direct registry edits, I will create a few .cabs with different delay values.

Cheers.

Wow!
Thx!