TouchPal 4.0 Officially Released 5/20/08 - Page 3

robotphood · #21 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 03:36 PM

Thanks guitardoc64! I've been playing with TP4 for a few days and it does seem more responsive. The layout definitely looks cleaner but I'm still messing up on punctuation because of the change. Also a couple symbols were missing I seem to use a lot whereas the numbers not so much. Your patch definitely helps with the transition.

jmorton, for enable/disable T+, do you mean switch to a different layout (swipe left/right)?

Oh, and I don't understand why there is a comma and period on L & M when it's already a down swipe next to the space bar?

Touch_Pete · #22 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 05:21 PM

I have used Touch Pal since version 3 and while it took a little bit of getting used to with the slight differences, I love it and wouldn't go back to 3.5. The pluses far out weigh the negatives, so I would encourage you to try it for a couple of weeks, if you do I highly doubt you will go back.

**guitardoc64** · #23 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 05:39 PM

I have another patch/fix for the patch. Notice the clean back arrow and space button don't have the other symbols? I grabbed this button set from 3.5 and it drops right in. Just copy/paste the file to TouchPal\Resources and soft reset.

Note:for VGA use the first and for QVGA use the zip.

**guitardoc64** · #24 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by robotphood

Thanks guitardoc64! I've been playing with TP4 for a few days and it does seem more responsive. The layout definitely looks cleaner but I'm still messing up on punctuation because of the change. Also a couple symbols were missing I seem to use a lot whereas the numbers not so much. Your patch definitely helps with the transition.

jmorton, for enable/disable T+, do you mean switch to a different layout (swipe left/right)?

Oh, and I don't understand why there is a comma and period on L & M when it's already a down swipe next to the space bar?

That's not the patch layout. It won't install till you soft reset. Once it's there you should have the familiar layout of symbols. The patch BTW came from the TouchPal forum. I have the SDK tools and am working on tweaking it a bit. I am open for suggestions, so post them!!

**jmorton10** · #25 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by robotphood

jmorton, for enable/disable T+, do you mean switch to a different layout (swipe left/right)?

No, I'm talking about what the dict button does on the tool box (except when you have the toolbox hidden). In 3.5, to turn off T+ & switch to precise input you swipe up on the backspace key to dot or undot the little circle there. That doesn't work in the new version. I also can't figure out how to add back the "show word candidate inline" function either.

I couldn't find that function in the beta either. If they eliminated that, I will be back to version 3.5 tomorrow.

I have used 4.0 all day today & the more I use it the more I think I like the old version better. I fail to see all these improvements people are talikng about, it is NOT FASTER in my system because 3.5 was lightning fast anyway. What is supposed to be better about this version, i honestly don't get it????

~John

**guitardoc64** · #26 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 08:52 PM

Yes the swipe up does. You just don't see it (unless you install the icons a few posts up) but it does switch to precise input.

Devileyezz · #27 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 09:04 PM

Why are all these patches needing to be released, why doesn't CooTek just release a new 4.0.1 or something with all these fixes?

I'm not going to buy the new version unless this happens, lol

omegax · #28 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 10:36 PM

TouchPal 4.0 Officially Released 5/20/08 - wrong year

**guitardoc64** · #29 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 10:37 PM

Yeah, I have suggested that to them to just bite the bullet and redo V4 from the ground up. Even with the patches, I'm starting to agree with jmorton10. It's not that the program's much better, in many ways it isn't. There were too many things to like about 3.5 that just worked. I had told them way back when it was released that the program was getting to be too large a footprint with all the help files etc, and this one's even bigger. Hell I think the only reason they even released the patch is because I threatened to blast them in this foum and at xda and pull my support. V4 isn't the expansion/upgrade that we all hoped it would be, and I feel they're trying to cover theit a$$.

**guitardoc64** · #30 (**permalink**) 05-25-2009, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by omegax

TouchPal 4.0 Officially Released 5/20/08 - wrong year

LOL! Good catch!!