TouchPal User Menu
1.
Overview
TouchPal is
an innovative input solution for mobile devices. It supports both touch screen
and hard keyboard mobile phones.
2. Getting Started
2.1 Select the layout for English
Three different
layouts are provided in the English input. QWERTY is the default layout. You
can select the one which you are used to. Slide horizontally on the screen to
switch the layouts.
Full QWERTY
CooTek
T+
12-Key PhonePad
In the English
input, you can predicatively input English when the dictionary button is on.
For example, click on [a][c][k], and you can get “acknowledge” and other
candidates.
Input
a candidate by clicking on it. If the candidate is the highlighted one, you can
also input it by clicking on [SPACE] or the [ENTER] button.
Click on the
Right Arrow [->] at the end of the candidates to enter the Full Candidate Words Selection mode where you
can see more candidates. Click on the right/left arrow at the bottom to turn
the pages.
You can turn off
the predictive input when the dictionary button is off.
Please refer to section
4 for the details of the English input.
2.3.2 Edit panel
There are editing functions such as “copy, cut, paste, select
all, page up, page down, home and end”.
How to select some
context?
Clicking on the [Select] button and the button will change to
[Done], and then use the arrow keys to select the words or characters. Click on
[Done] after you have selected the desired context. Then you can apply the
editing funtions (e.g. copy/cut/paste/del) to the selected context.
How to return to the
main keyboard?
Click on the ‘Back Arrow” in the right corner on the bottom
to return to the main keyboard.
2.4
Input symbols
Switch
to the “Symbols panel” by clicking on the [
] Symbol button. The input of numbers
and symbols is supported from the Symbols panel, including punctuations,
currency symbols, emoticons, web phrases and etc.
There is a [Lock] button on the Symbols panel. It is off by
default. When it is off, after inputting a symbol (not numbers), the keyboard
will automatically switch back to the main keyboard so that you can continue to
input. When it is on, after inputting a symbol, the keyboard will not switch
back to the main keyboard, and stay on the Symbols panel.
TIP: You can enter into the Emoticons page
directly by long pressing the
symbol button.
2.5
Settings
Press & hold
(Long press) the Input Language Button such as [EN], and you can launch the “Settings
panel”.
3. General
functions
3.1 Prediction
In
English input, if you have input “we”, “we”, “well”, and many other candidates
will be predicted. This function is enabled by default in the Settings panel.
You can turn it off in the English input. In English, to turn it off, you can
either turn off the dictionary button, or go to the Settings panel and unselect
the “Word prediction” option.
3.1.2 Predict the next word
After
you have input a word, the next possible words can be automatically predicted
and shown on the candidate line.
E.g. In the English input, if you have input
“look”, it will predict “for” and some other words.
The next
word prediction is available to different forms of a word.
E.g. if you input “looking” or “looked”, it
can also predict “forward” as the next word.
This
function is enabled by default. To turn it off, please go to the Settings panel
and click option “Smart input”, then unselect “Predict the next word” option.
However, the Handwriting input is not controlled by this option. The prediction
of the next word is always enabled.
When inputting English
in the Full QWERTY layout, you just need to tap on the area around the desired
key, and the input method automatically corrects the mistyping. Even if all the
letters are mistyped, it can still predict the right word. This function is
disabled by default. To turn it on, please go to the Settings panel and select “Correct
mistyping” option.
E.g. If every letter of “this” has been
mistyped to “yjod”, the keyboard can still predict
“this”.
TIP: In the English input, you can enable
mistyping correction only when the [DICT] button is on (in the predictive input
mode).
3.4 User dictionaries
You can input a
word or phrase which is not in the dictionary. After you have input a word not
in the dictionary, it will be added to a user dictionary automatically. Next
time when you input it again, it can be predicted.
TouchPal can dynamically adjust the priority of
words based on your input history. For example, if you input a word very
frequently, its priority will become higher and it will appear closer to the
front of the candidate list.
E.g. In the Chinese Pin Yin input, if you
have input “youzi” and go to the Full Candidate Words Selection mode to select
the word “柚子”, next time after you input “youzi”, you can see “柚子” ranked top 3 in the word candidate
line.
3.6 Adaptive input
learning
Unlike
other input solutions, TouchPal predictive engine is
not only based on word statistics, but also based on context (the words you’ve
been typed). In the English input and some western languages input, select
“Adaptive input learning” after clicking the option “Smart Input” in the
Settings panel will allow TouchPal to learn from
input context to improve prediction quality.
E.g., if you have inputted “hi”, then input “me”.
Next time when you input “hi’’, “me” will be appeared as a candidate.
3.7
Different input modes
Besides the common text input mode, four more input modes are provided and
the keyboard can switch to the different mode auotmatically according to the
input environment.
1.Web mode:In the browser address line, the keyboard works in Web Mode automatically.
The English QWERTY layout is provided, and the predictive input is disabled by
default.
2.Email mode: In text fileds
for Email addresses, the keyboard switches to the Email mode.
The English QWERTY layout is provided, and the
predictive input is disabled by default.
3.Number mode: In the number fields
such as the Phone Number field, the keyboard switches to the Number keypad
automatically.
4.Password mode: In the password
fields, the keyboard switches to the English input QWERTY layout and disables
the predictive input.
There is a [Back] button (a backward arrow) on the right corner on the bottom
on every panel, such as the Symbols panel, the Editing panel and the Full Candidate
Words Selection panel and etc. Clicking on it will bring you back to the main
keyboard.
There is an [Enter] button on the right corner at the bottom of the main
keyboard. The label on the [Enter] button changes according to the enviornment of
the application. For example, it can automatically change to [Next] or [Done]
and etc.
3.9.1 Key-press
vibration and Key-press pop-up effect
The
keyboard supports vibration key-press feedback and pop-up effect. You can
enable or disable the key-press vibration via the “Key press sound” options in
the Settings panel.
The
key-press vibration is off by default.
3.9.2 Key-press sound effect
The
keyboard supports key-press sound effect. The key-press sound is
enabled/disabled by the System Sound settings of your phone. When the System
Sound is enabled, the key-press sound is enabled. Otherwise, it is disabled.
Please refer to the phone’s user manual for how to enable/disable the sound.
In English
input, select the “Slide-down symbol” option in the Settings panel. You will
see symbols and numbers shown at the bottom of each key. You can press and
slide down on a key to input the corresponding symbol on the bottom. This
function is disabled by default.
3.11 Online update
TouchPal can update its dictionary online. You
can also update hot words to TouchPal’s dictionary
manually. To use this function, please go to the Settings panel and click
option “Update Dictionary” under “Dictionary Management” group.
3.12 Voice input
You can input
words without clicking the character key by using the voice input function.
TouchPal supports voice input in Android 2.2
platform devices or above. To use the voice input function, please click the [Voice] button on the main key board.
3.13 Tutorial
If you have not
used TouchPal before, you can use the tutorial wizard
to help you to get a quick start guide. The tutorial will show you the general functions and some special features
of TouchPal so that you can input more
quickly. To use this function, please go to the Settings panel and click option
“Tutorial” which is under the “Help” group.
4. English
input
There
are 2 ways to input uppercases.
1.Use
the [SHIFT] button for uppercases.
2.A
shortcut: Press and slide up on a key to input an uppercase letter.
E.g. Slide up on “w” to input “W”.
Double-click
on the [SHIFT] button to lock the keyboard in the UPPERCASE input mode (the CAP
mode).
4.2
Quick abbreviated words input
You
can input abbreviated English words without inputting the apostrophe or dash.
E.g. Type “im” to
get “I’m”
E.g. Type “ill” to get “I’ll”.
This
function works only in the predictive input mode (when the [DICT] button is on).
4.3
Relevant Words
There is a
drop-down list after you pressing and sliding down on a candidate word which
has a small black triangle on the bottom. There are relevant words of this
candidate word in this list.
This function
can be disabled in the Settings panel.
E.g. Slide down on a word candidate “look”,
and you can find the relevant words “looks”, “looking”, and “looked” in the
list.
4.4
Spell check
TouchPal can check spelling mistakes. E.g. If
you want to input “Government” but miss a character “r”, TouchPal
can still predict “Government”. This function is disabled by default. To turn
it on, please go to the Settings panel and click option “Smart Input”, then
select “Spell Check” option.
5. HandWriting
Input
In
handwriting input, you can input Chinese character、English
character、number、symbols in whole
screen。To
input English character、number、symbols quickly，you can start
your
stroke
from the dotted line area which is located at the rignt
side of the screen.
You
can adjust the stroke width、recognize
interval、stroke
color for the handwriting input by youself. To use these option, you can go to the Settings Pannel and select the
“Handwriting” option.
