TouchPal 4.0 Officially Released 5/20/08

[b4u2]

I installed on mightyrom4 & it will not work. Anyone have cab of 3.5?

edit: I reinstalled V4 & it works now. What is with the space @ the bottom? it takes up a lot of screen space to have "shift, dict, en, sym,enter". I like the "feel" of V4 but that is a lot of space taken up!

[guitardoc64]

Sure. Here ya go. It's the 3.5 for WM6.1

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by b4u2

What is with the space @ the bottom? it takes up a lot of screen space to have "shift, dict, en, sym,enter"

You can turn off the "toolbox" & it will eliminate that.

Most of us long time TP fans have gone back to 3.5 however.

IMHO, 4.0 is a makor downgrade........

~John

[guitardoc64]

Originally Posted by jmorton10

You can turn off the "toolbox" & it will eliminate that.

Most of us long time TP fans have gone back to 3.5 however.

IMHO, 4.0 is a makor downgrade........

~John

I agree with that. CooTek screwed up a good thing with V4.

[notrock]

I have never used the term 'epic fail' before. At times I've also frowned at my monitor when I see it being used. So here goes

TouchPal 4 = epic fail

I felt lame just typing it. But I'm glad its off my chest.

Also I only get that lag with 3.5 / 6.5 if my phone is connecting at the time i'm using the keyboard. For me I narrowed it down to when its checking mail or connecting to wifi

[guitardoc64]

Originally Posted by notrock

I have never used the term 'epic fail' before. At times I've also frowned at my monitor when I see it being used. So here goes

TouchPal 4 = epic fail

I felt lame just typing it. But I'm glad its off my chest.

Also I only get that lag with 3.5 / 6.5 if my phone is connecting at the time i'm using the keyboard. For me I narrowed it down to when its checking mail or connecting to wifi

I ought to send Michael @ Cootek a link to this post. I think they know by now though.

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by notrock

I have never used the term 'epic fail' before. At times I've also frowned at my monitor when I see it being used. So here goes

TouchPal 4 = epic fail

I felt lame just typing it. But I'm glad its off my chest.

ROTFL, I hate that term myself but it certainly applies here.

I suppose if you had never tried TP before, you might think this version was not too bad but I can't even imagine any long time TP user liking the changes.

Changing the format of the KB is one thing, some people will love the change & others will hate it (that's how it is with any change). What really has me scratching my head is, they eliminated options/features that people use all the time & there seems to be no way to re-enable them.

When I first installed 4.0 & was trying it out, I immediately knew something was different that slowed me down, but couldn't put my finger on the change right away.

I finally realized what was going on when I A/B'ed it side by side with a spare TP I own that still had TP 3.5 installed. That was when I realized the "show word candidate inline" option was not working in 4.0. This is one of the features I always liked about 3.5. Some other KB's do this also (Resco & FingerKB also do this for instance) & I will never use a KB that does not have this feature.

I figured it had to be turned off by default in 4.0 since it always worked well in 3.5 & spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to turn it on. I finally realized that the option has been eliminated. Why on earth they would totally eliminate a feature that was working perfectly is beyond me, but that change alone would force me back to 3.5 if nothing else did (they made a bunch of other changes also & I don't like ANY of them)

I guess it works better in landscape now, but I wouldn't know as TP works so well in portrait mode there is no reason to ever use landscape.

~John

[guitardoc64]

The change in the Keyboard was enough for me. I type horribly slow on a desktop, and TP allowes me to type with a great deal of speed. I never use the landscape mode, and don't use the word candidate inline but the added bulk to the program, added toolbars were things I didn't care for. Supposedly they are in the process of a rewrite, but at this point I could care less, because 3.5 works for me.

[robotphood]

Back to 3.5 as well. I really gave v4 a try but it didn't cut it.