The keyboard of my TREO 650 is broken and i need a "virtual" on-screen keybord, some help?

Answer 1

Just like everyone else has mentioned, you can bring up the virtual keyboard by going into any text based application like the Memos, Calendar, etc and tapping on the top left corner of the screen or the hardware Menu button at the top (right of the 5 way directional button). Then, either use the directional button to get to the Edit and then down to select the "Keyboard" or pressing the "K" keypad button.

But, if you keypad is broken, you may not be able to press the "K" so you will likely need to press the directional buttons to navigate around the menus.

You can also use the on-screen capability of the Treo so that you can input via Graffiti 2. Simply install Graffiti Anywhere (it's freeweare) ( http://www.escande.org/palm/GrfAnywhere/ )and have it activated and now, you can input on the screen, just like with many other Palm devices. If you're good enough on it, you may not need to use the virtual keyboard. To bring up the keyboard, simply do the command line stroke, which is the / stroke from the lower left to upper right and then a "K". This way, you won't need the keypad.

If you do want a different and possibly better virtual keyboard, you may want to check out mini-keyboard from animatorsoft ( http://animatorsoft.com/mini-kbd/index.html ). They offer bigger keys and detect the taps much better than the default virtual keyboard. But, again, you will still need to do the same steps to bring up the keyboard as discussed previously.

I've discussed these topics over various posting at my Palm discovery blog.

http://palmdiscovery.netfirms.com/nfblog/2005/10/23/the-memo-pad-application-pt-3-keyboards/

http://palmdiscovery.netfirms.com/nfblog/2006/04/03/graffiti-anywhere-is-essential-for-palms-without-the-write-anywhere-on-screen-feature/

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Answer 2

There are a lot of those on the market promising to be better virtual keyboards than what Palm/Win CE have by default in their OS, but Treo 650 can get it from the menu Edit, tap the title bar to get the menu in Palm OS machines.

Answer 3

From any screen you can usually get the keyboard by pressing the title tab (the blue tab in default color scheme) at the top of the screen you are trying to edit (with your stylus) then pressing the K button. That should pop up the onscreen keyboard. I know it works from the Memo, Contacts and Messages screen. You can check the others.