OptiKey

New:

• Support for Hungarian #607

Fixed:

• Positioning bug with custom keyboards and docked mouse layout #605

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• None

Fixed:

• Issues with sizing of dynamic keyboards #574

Deprecated:

• None

N.B. This release contains some bugs in the sizing of dynamic keyboards!

New:

• New functionality on Dynamic Keyboards, adding ability to specify size and position of OptiKey, plus create step lists of actions (like a macro) using the new DynamicKey #596

Fixed:

• Issues with sizing of dynamic keyboards introduced in v2.24.0 #574
• Issues with some keystrokes not being recognised by external programs #584

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• None

Fixed:

• OptiKey sometimes does not fully close and instead is demoted to a still running, but invisible, background process #592

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• None

Fixed:

• More dynamic keyboard sizing issues - corrected so that key shared size groups can be set explicitly and auto width and height span calculations can be suppressed #574

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• None

Fixed:

• Dynamic keyboard sizing issues - corrected so that key width and height spans are derived automatically and Urdu, Persian, and Unicode compatibility fonts can be used #574

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• Finnish (Finland) support
• Hebrew (Israel) support
• Magnification is now shown near the mouse event location #594

Fixed:

• Improved UI translations for Persian
• Symbol orientation fix for #581
• Make sure changes in resolution are picked up. #586

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• Urdu (Pakistan) support #540
• Persian (Iran) support #568
• Many layout fixes for main Alpha keyboards across nearly all languages
• Ability to set fixation time on individual keys with only white space, e.g. TAB. #541
• Updated API for IrisBond eye trackers
• Ability to change the order in which the user selects diacritics. By default you select the diacritic first, then the letter. New setting "Type diacritic marks (accents etc) after letters:" in the "Words" tab of the Management Console lets you invert that behaviour

Fixed:

• Clears multi-key highlighted state when toggling manual mode, or the multi-key selection times out.
• Dynamic keyboards can change the default dock thickness of other keyboards #545
• UILanguage changes now require a restart, otherwise some text (such as the right click context menu) does not update correctly

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• Georgian - full support including simplified keyboard
• Adds new fonts, chosen for their readability: Mandatory (all capitals font, used on UK car registration plates), 'B612' and 'B612 Mono' (used in international air traffic control systems)

Fixed:

• Handling for dynamic keyboards which attempt to use more the 95% of the screen height as this causes Windows to hang
• Spanish Conversation Keyboard layout issue - the output control at the top was not filling the full width

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• Adds new optional 'Copy All From Scratchpad' key to allow the scratchpad contents to be easily copied to the clipboard and pasted into another application
• Enhance installer to automatically start OptiKey so it is possible to upgrade and auto-start the new version using only OptiKey itself

Fixed:

• Sizing issue on the text of the Portuguese space bar

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• Support for Irisbond Duo eye tracker
• Serbian Cyrillic support added
• New theme: Android Two Tone

Fixed:

• Issue with manual mode where key selection triggers stopped working #524
• Fix to prevent crash when dynamic keyboard fails to load
• Fix bug when using Presage and the database.db file cannot be found

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• Ukrainian support #520

Fixed:

• Issue where certain characters with diacritic marks (e.g. Russian and Ukrainian characters with characters) were being treated as multiple characters, resulting in unwanted auto spaces being added

Deprecated:

• None

N.B. This is a re-release of 2.17.0 which had a couple of issues. Enjoy!

New:

• New Plugins engine - control your home automation systems, launch programs, visit websites and more from customisable keys on dynamic keyboards - see https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/wiki/Plugins for more
• Adds German-language simplified and alphabetical keyboards, including conversation keyboards #473
• Adds a backspace key to simplified keyboards in English and Turkish #479
• Eliminates highlighting of both the home key and the back key simultaneously on simplified keyboards, by creating an extra function key #480
• Removes warning that calibration cannot be completed without manual intervention for most Tobii devices as this is no longer the case #482
• Adds ? and ! to Portuguese keyboard
• Adds shift aware option for dynamic keyboards #505
• Toggle Off Multikey Selection When Using Simplified Keyboard #504
• Adds a Restart key to the right click context menu (it can also be used in dynamic keyboards) = #495
• Don't suppress repeating characters when hashing phrases, e.g. "Hello, how are you" should have a shortcut (hash) of "HHAY", not "HAY"

Fixed:

• None

Deprecated:

• None

Following reports of issues with the latest 2.17.0 release, this reverts back to the stable 2.16.0 release while these issues are addressed.

New:

• New Plugins engine - control your home automation systems, launch programs, visit websites and more from customisable keys on dynamic keyboards - see https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/wiki/Plugins for more
• Adds German-language simplified and alphabetical keyboards, including conversation keyboards #473
• Adds a backspace key to simplified keyboards in English and Turkish #479
• Eliminates highlighting of both the home key and the back key simultaneously on simplified keyboards, by creating an extra function key #480
• Removes warning that calibration cannot be completed without manual intervention for most Tobii devices as this is no longer the case #482
• Adds ? and ! to Portuguese keyboard
• Adds shift aware option for dynamic keyboards #505
• Toggle Off Multikey Selection When Using Simplified Keyboard #504
• Adds a Restart key to the right click context menu (it can also be used in dynamic keyboards) = #495

Fixed:

• None

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• Polish support.
• New simplified Japanese keyboard layout
• Adds confirmation to Manual Mode context menu change.
• CommuniKate support for any language (previously English only) - new settings & new key to switch to CommuniKate keyboard
• Presage: Apostrophe support has been added to Presage along with the database from ACAT which contains contractions.
• Enhances the Open Board Format integration by using more of the information from the OBF files and making fewer assumptions. The discussion for this is in issue #454 but here are some highlights:

Individual .OBF files can now be selected for use as well as .OBZ archives.
The grid layout and key placement are now set by the information in the "grid" section of the OBF file.
Support for inline and remote images.
Support for local, inline and remote sounds.
The defined button borders are now applied.

Fixed:

• None

Deprecated:

• None

N.B. This release is signed with a new certificate, so please don't worry if Windows warns you of an untrusted certificate - it takes time for "trust" to build up with Microsoft when you change your certificate.

New:

• Adds click and drag to minimised mouse keyboard
• Adds simplified Turkish keyboard layout

Fixed:

• Various small issues with Look to Scroll #451 #452
• Adds more debugging to help diagnose Presage exception which can crash OptiKey
• Fixes bug with 'Look to scroll' function where OptiKey can crash if it overlaps a window border

Deprecated:

• None

N.B. This release is signed with a new certificate, so please don't worry if Windows warns you of an untrusted certificate - it takes time for "trust" to build up with Microsoft when you change your certificate.

New:

• Support for Japanese
• New French Canada support (QWERTY keyboard layout): https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/437
• New scrolling method: https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/423 - details here: https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/wiki/Look-to-scroll
• Simplified Alpha keyboards refactored/redesigned slightly
• Installer updated to include a warning that crash information is automatically sent back the next time OptiKey starts up. This is not a change in behaviour, only the addition of a warning to make users more aware of this behaviour.

Fixed:

• Fixed long standing memory leak issue: https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/430
• Fixes incorrect output from dotless i key in Turkish conversation keyboard
• Improves Italian UI translation
• Fixes issue with labelling of French PgUp/PgDown keys: https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/433
• Fixes crash if the word suggestion engine throws an exception (e.g. Presage throws an error when generating the word completion or next word suggestions)

Deprecated:

• None

N.B. This release is signed with a new certificate, so please don't worry if Windows warns you of an untrusted certificate - it takes time for "trust" to build up with Microsoft when you change your certificate.

New:

• Add ability to change voice without going to the Management Console - https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/415

Fixed:

• Mouse drag and drop action - this has been modified so that there are configurable delays between pressing the mouse key down, moving the mouse, and releasing it. The movement itself has also been broken down into a number of incremental steps. Together these changes make the action detectable by a number of applications and games, which previously struggled to detect the speed of the action.

Deprecated:

• None

New:

• Adds minimise key to Portuguese alpha keyboard
• Add configurable delays in mouse drag and drop actions - https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/424

Fixed:

• When using key selection triggers LWIN modifier key causes OptiKey to freeze - https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/411
• Manual mode isn't working if MyGaze/EyeTribe isn't connected - https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/408
• Not getting error messages when eye tracker can't connect - https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/409
• Adding safeguard when setting window height/width - https://github.com/OptiKey/OptiKey/issues/418

Deprecated:

• None