1.) Like most others, I find the new iSkin to be disproportionately sized. Vertically, the characters are spaced nicely, but they are also stretched such that the keyboard takes half of the screen of my Axim. Then, horizontally, the characters are comparatively narrow, causing frequent mistypes. There's not much room to work with, but it seems designed for the thick-fingered, not the wide-fingered, individual.
2.) BUG REPORT: If you are using the default Resco skin and set the calculator to Large, exit out of settings, then re-enter and reset the skin to iSkin, exit, and then press the number button you will receive the error message "Cannot load the selected skin. Please choose a valid skin or reinstall Resco Keyboard Pro." If you re-enter preferences Small will be the selected numeric skin, but for that setting to actually take effect you must choose Calculator and then Small before exiting out. The number key will then work. (Alright, who forgot that line of code?
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2.) When using the iSkin you should be able to choose a default accent rotation scheme or at least have it based on the language selection. For instance, when I set the keyboard language to German I must rotate through the accent options of iSkin 4 times to get to the umlauts.
3.) Speaking of language options, iSkin lacks the ability to take advantage of Resco's second language option at all. Not enough room to add another button for that, but perhaps a menu option?
4.) Under the English layouts you only cycle through the accents once before returning to the main character layout if you choose not to choose a letter, but under the European languages I tried you had to cycle through twice. Consistency?
My proposal: If someone presses the accent button they, more than likely, want a specific accent key and will not be choosing a standard character, such as "h". Thus, the cycling through various accents is unnecessary and particularly tedious for those using accented characters not on the first page. Why not just show all of the accents on a single layout, removing the standard characters? That would eliminate the repetition (I personally dislike pressing the accent key 4 times every time I wish to type ü) and leave room for a 'language switch' option to swap between the primary and secondary keyboard layouts.
I'd still like a copy of Resco Keyboard 5.x, but hope they implement some changes in the near future.
Thanks!
John
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