Hot Virtual Keyboard 9.0 has been released

We are pleased to present a significantly improved version of our on-screen keyboard.

Changes in this version:

• New design and new icons.
• New styles have been added: Windows 10, Colored, Android. Order of styles has been changed.
  
• Improved: Almost all on-screen keyboards have been improved.
• Improved: The window for selecting the type of keyboard has been improved.
  
  
  
• Improved support of High DPI Displays on devices like Microsoft Surface, when "Size of text, apps, and other items" is more than 200%.
• New keyboard types: MiniTouch, TouchScreen.
• Improved: Many settings have been moved to new places.
• New section "Show/Hide" for the on-screen keyboard has been added.
• New: "Hide the on-screen keyboard when typing on a physical keyboard" setting now hides the keyboard when you attach "Cover Keyboard". If your attachable keyboard doesn't hide the on-screen keyboard, please contact our support team.
• New "Show only when you click or tap a text box" setting has been added.
• New "End state" setting for "Auto Hide" feature has been added.
  
• New "Use all uppercase letters when I double-tap Shift" setting has been added.
• Improved: "Set capital after" setting has been replaced by "Capitalize the first letter of each sentence" setting. Now this setting can recognize empty input field. The work in the Spanish language has been improved.
  
• New: Now you can use <SELECTION>, <CLIPBOARD> tags for "Open URL" and "Run program" actions. For example: https://translate.google.com/#fr/en/<SELECTION>
• New "Working In Background" kind of option "Type of URL opening" has been added for "Open URL" action.
• New folder with Gamepads for computer games has been created. All rarely used keyboards have been moved to the "Outdated" folder. You can add and remove Outdated keyboards and Gamepads from the keyboard list using the menu items in the keyboard selection window.
  
• Improved: Sounds "Quiet" has been improved and refined.
• Improved: The operation of the on-screen keyboard with various combinations of settings has been thoroughly refined.
• Improved: The switching of the input language has been improved.
• Improved: The UWP app definition in Windows 10 to create dependencies has been improved.
• Improved: New options have been added to the Dependencies setting.
• Improved: "Word Autocomplete" setting has been renamed to "Text Suggestions". "Text Suggestions" feature has been improved.
• New "Align Text Left" setting for the Text Suggestions.
• Improved: If a word is not found, the Text Suggestions window is highlighted in color.
  
• Improved: Blinking the "Text suggestions" window has been removed.
• Improved: The Docking function now works faster.
• Improved: The on-screen keyboard stores position for every screen resolution.
• Improved: Five keys work like character keys: 0088=",;", 0089=".:", 008A="?!", 008B="-@", 008C="@-".
• Improved: Now key combinations like Fn+1 work correctly with Ctrl, Alt and Shift control keys. For example: Fn+Alt+4 => Alt+F4.
  
• Improved "Show the on-screen keyboard next to the text entry area" setting. If two monitors are connected and the text cursor is not defined, the keyboard will appear next to the mouse cursor.
• Improved stability of the program on slow computers.
• Improved some shortcut icons.
• Improved: "Advanced keyboard settings" window changed by "Expert" window. All extended settings have been moved to Expert window.
• Improved: "Repeat delay" and "Repeat rate" settings have been moved to the Expert window.
• New expert settings have been added:
  
  1. Highlight the keys on the on-screen keyboard when you lift your finger,
  2. Show hieroglyphs for Asian languages on keys,
  3. Temporarily hide the keyboard when a system window is visible in Windows 8 and above,
  4. Temporarily hide the keyboard when the Start Menu is visible in Windows 10,
  5. Hide the keyboard when you swipe it down,
  6. Maximum number of lines in the Text Suggestions.
• New Javascript functions have been added: "Move to center", "Capitalize the first letter". https://hot-virtual-keyboard.com/commander.html
• Fixed problems when typing using a stylus in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Version 1709).
• Fixed an issue with the Text Suggestions window in WhatsApp software.
• Fixed an issue with computer restart.
• Lots of other fixes and improvements.

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Compatible with Windows 7

Hot Virtual Keyboard is one of the programs that have obtained the official "Compatible with Windows 7" logo. Software with the Compatible with Windows 7 logo is certified to be virus free, to install and uninstall cleanly, and to integrate seamlessly in Windows 7. Our customers come to us for high-quality virtual onscreen keyboard that offers the most up-to-date features.

Hot Virtual Keyboard 5.0 with Multi-Touch Support

• Added Windows 7 support.
  
• Added native support for Windows 7 multitouch. Touch input is available with 255 touch points.
  

multi-touch virtual keyboard
• Added new keyboard types: MiniUnspaced, Standard3 (without NumPad), TouchGame1, TouchGame2, Tight1, Tight2.
  
• Added an ability to close the keyboard if the "Show the on-screen keyboard next to the text cursor" option is enabled.
  
• The number of simultaneously supported languages has been increased to 30.
  
• Added support of PNG images in the keyboard editing mode.
  
• Added new parameters for confirming the addition of words to the custom dictionary: Disappearance delay, confirmation with a hotkey.
  
• Added an ability to download dictionaries directly from the program.
  
• When the screen resolution is changed, the keyboard stays in the same corner of the screen it was before.
  
• Added a new command line parameter -SHOWKEYBOARD (forcibly show the on-screen keyboard when the program is started).
  
• Added a new command to the context menu that brings up the language and text input services dialog.
  
• Added an ability to dock the keyboard to the top or bottom of the screen while decreasing the size of the desktop.
  
• Added a new option: "Show keyboard symbols accessible via Shift when Shift is not pressed and font is not large".
  
• Added a new parameter for the keyboard icon: "Hide when the keyboard is visible".
  
• Added the language parameter to autocompletion dictionaries. Dictionaries are activated depending on the currently selected system language.
  
• Added an ability to change the size of the keyboard without the need to edit it.
  
• Added new settings for the on-screen keyboard: "Fit to the screen width", "Fit to the screen height".
  
• Added a new parameter "Mouse pointer" for the onscreen keyboard: Standard (Arrow), Hand and Invisible.
  
• Added an ability to configure the folder with autocompletion dictionaries.
  
• Added hotkey icons for Windows 7.
  
• Added new parameters for the on-screen keyboard:
  Enable key repeat;
  Hold down key until Shift, Ctrl, Alt and Win is pressed;
  Enable AutoClick;
  AutoClick delay;
  Set capital after the specified character;
  Delete a space before specified characters;
  Add a space after specified characters;
  Add a space before specified characters.
  
• When the default settings are applied, the keyboard is moved to the bottom right corner of the screen.
  
• Added flags for Croatian and Bosnian languages.
  
• Fixed a minor bug: Text entry from the on-screen keyboard did not work in Microsoft Works, Eclipse IDE.
  
• Fixed a minor bug: The input language could not be switched in IBM Lotus Symphony v.1.3.0.
  
• Fixed a bug with processing apostrophes in autocompletion dictionaries.
  
• Fixed a bug: The program did not start automatically in Windows Vista/7 with UAC enabled.
  
• Fixed a bug: When the AccessDenied option was enabled in system registry, access was still provided.
  
• Fixed a bug: Removed flicking when used option "Show On-Screen Keyboard when the text cursor is visible".
  
• Fixed a bug: The keys for the numbers 5-9 and 0 in the United States Dvorak for Left Hand keyboard were missing.
  
• Fixed a bug: If you right-click on a key and accidentally drag the mouse off the key, the menu will pop up and keep the key pressed making an error noise at the same time.
  
• Fixed a bug: When the keyboard view was set using the WM_COPYDATA command, it wasn't restored after the system restart.
  
• Fixed a bug: When the "Show the on-screen keyboard next to the text cursor" setting was enabled, the keyboard was not shown at Windows start up.
  
• Some other enhancements.