Tired of constantly tapping the caret to enter a some punctuations? Punctpad is a floating keyboard consisting only of punctuations and numbers. It is designed to eliminate a few extra taps to delete or add commonly used punctuations. Added features help keep PunctPad handy but out of your way!
When installed, PunctPad will also put a button in your backdrop's status bar for easy access.
New in v 2.0!
- "Date" button pops up a date picker to input any selected date.
- Keyboard button to open the Newton builtin keyboard.
- Preferences to enable/disable cursor tracking when PunctPad is first opened
- Preferences to enable/disable the backdrop button.
- New layout for easier tapping of keys.
*** Make sure you delete v 1.0 from your Newton first before upgrading to v 2.0 .
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Unique features:
Keys and buttons for easy entry:
- All commonly used punctuation marks and numbers are available with one tap.
- Easy enclosure of double or single quotes, parenthesis, brackets using a popup button.
- Keys for deleting a character (dl), return (rt) and tab (tb). Also back and forward spacing (<- and ->).
- Buttons for hiliting a single word (hilite), entire text (hiliteAll), capitalizing a word (CapWord) and deleting a word (DelWord). Just position the cursor within or at the end of a word and tap the appropriate button!
"Positioning" feature:
On the top left of the keyboard are a set of buttons:
The top five are positioning buttons. The top arrow will move PunctPad to the top of the screen, the bottom arrow moves it to the bottom of the screen. The middle three move it to the top quarter, middle or three quarters down the screen. This helps you keep PunctPad from covering up your text and is easier and quicker than dragging PunctPad (which you can still do if you want to - just uncheck the checkbox, drag PunctPad by holding down the shaded border of the app and slide the pen.)
"Tag along" feature:
The bottom left of the keyboard has an arrow button and a checkbox:
- When checked, the tag along feature is enabled (this is the default when you open PunctPad). Where ever you move the caret, PunctPad will follow. This keeps PunctPad almost as close as the builtin caret punctuation menu. (Note: Tapping any of the Positioning buttons will uncheck the box and toggle this feature off.)
- The arrow button toggles PunctPad above or below the cursor, again making it easier to view text or get it out of your way for handwriting.
Hope you find little app this useful!
Feel free to send any comments to me at:
Way-Chung Wong
firstvln@aolcom
Also check out "PIMple", the Popup calendar! A great little PIM!
