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Meteo
28th July 2006, 03:04 AM
This has been slowly annoying the hell outta me. I noticed theres no indicator showing that you are using caps, symbols, or shift. It messes up my typing alot. Is there anyway to get some soft of indicator that one of them is on?
Meteo
11th August 2006, 09:37 PM
does anyone know? Is there some sort of hack maybe?
GapBoyT
11th August 2006, 10:07 PM
I would love this as well!
fordcan
11th August 2006, 11:18 PM
do search a little guys :wink:

u can find most of the answer by searchin the forum

example: write "caps AND hack OR tweak" in search field

U can do it, I believe :wink:
Meteo
12th August 2006, 02:48 AM
I did exactly as you suggested and found this post

http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=53784

In the middle of the post it shows a registry tweak for the Wizard for caps and shift indicator on the screen. However, it did not work for me. I still see no indicator. Maybe it doesnt work on Blue Angels? Can anyone verify?
GapBoyT
12th August 2006, 08:54 AM
I have searched and only found hacks for winmo 5 devices.

They don't work on PPC2003.
GapBoyT
12th August 2006, 09:26 AM
I have searched and only found hacks for winmo 5 devices.

They don't work on PPC2003.
Meteo
22nd October 2006, 04:38 AM
bumping this thread to see if I can get any answers...
ideologist
22nd October 2006, 04:44 AM
Are you using PPC2003?
Meteo
6th January 2007, 07:06 PM
I just tried the tweak with WM5. Doesnt work...
CJBS
7th January 2007, 09:06 AM
This would require a hardware solution I believe (ie. one that interfaces with the HTC keyboard driver for the Blue Angel).

Consider the following tests:
1) Open a Word/Text editor
2) Using the standard soft keyboard (SIP), type a character in lowercase, eg. 'a' -> "a" appears
3) Press SHIFT on the SIP, then press 'a'. -> "A" appears
4) Press SHIFT on the SIP, then press 'a' on the Blue Angel Hardware keyboard (HWKbd) -> "A" appears
5) Press SHIFT on the HWKbd (SIP then dissapears - reactivate it), then press 'a' on the SIP -> "a" appears ---- note that the HWKbd's SHIFT didn't modify what occurred on the SIP
6) Now press 'a' on the HWKbd -> "A" appears. This indicates that the "SHIFT"/"CTRL" functionality is limited to the hardware keyboard itself.

The same applies to the CAPS Lock on the HWKbd. If you turn on CAPS, caps only works for keys input from the HWKbd, not from the SIP (try it: on the HWKbd, press 'Fn', then ''Shift/Cap". Keys input from HWKbd are UPPERCASE, and from the SIP lowercase.

Any solution to this will require development of some sort of driver/interface with the Blue Angel's hardware itself.

Any takers...? :-)