Clever and Innovative Polish Keyboard Layout. must see!

pierros14 1 | 3

27 Apr 2009 / #1

Hi people!

I am Pierros Arkoudakos and i come from Greece.
I have made a small program, primarily for my language (Greek), but since my girlfriend is from Poland i made an addition for the polish language too.

After some requests, i added support for German and Croatian.

The program is small (~350KB). And free!
What it does, is to enable you to produce the "special polish letters" by double-pressing the "normal" ones.

For example: if you want to get the 'ę' you just double-press the 'e' !

It does not replace the "traditional" way, it just adds a new functionality.
It does not require installation. Unzip and run.
There is an option to autostart it with windows and if you don't like it, you erase it!

Note: to get the 'ź' double-press the 'x' !

Comments are welcomed...

[code.google.com/p/piboard/downloads/list ]

get always the latest version.

osiol 55 | 3921

27 Apr 2009 / #2

double-pressing

Is that like the double click on a mouse, so if you wait a moment longer, it will give ee instead of ę?

OP pierros14 1 | 3

27 Apr 2009 / #3

exactly!
the idea came to me from the way we compose SMS on a mobile phone...

gumishu 15 | 6235

27 Apr 2009 / #4

brilliant idea Pierros :)

castaneda

28 Apr 2009 / #5

not working with the last updates....
pitty,promising

OP pierros14 1 | 3

28 Apr 2009 / #6

what do you mean it does not working?
can you describe the problem?
It works fine for me...

Guest

28 May 2009 / #7

Just FYI,,,,

there are no capital letters in Polish Alphabet and NO words ever begins with such characters :

Ą Ę Ń nor any word begins with lower case ą ę ń

welshguyinpola 23 | 463

28 May 2009 / #8

Anyone downloaded this yet and got it to work? Im a bit wary incase of virus

Mirya - | 5

28 May 2009 / #9

I downloaded it but couldn't get it to actually work so removed it...

No probs with viruses or anything like that, I think it's just a crappy program!

Birgit - | 2

10 Jan 2010 / #10

Hi Pierros and any other reader who happens to come here,

I posted something in favour of your useful little program PiBoard which I downloaded a few hours ago and described how it worked having the not so savvy computer user in mind, too.

Go to
polishforums.com/general-language-17/polish-keyboard-best-27165/

to read it if you're interested.

Birgit
Vienna,
Austria

jonni 16 | 2475

10 Jan 2010 / #11

Just FYI,,,,

there are no capital letters in Polish Alphabet

There are six in the quote above!

This program sounds a good idea - I'll download it tomorrow.

OP pierros14 1 | 3

17 Jan 2010 / #12

I downloaded it but couldn't get it to actually work so removed it...

No probs with viruses or anything like that, I think it's just a crappy program!

Maybe i forgot to mention that it works with the Polish-Programmer keyboard layout...

Thank you Birgit...

lowfunk99 10 | 397

17 Jan 2010 / #13

wów it wórks greąt.

Thąnks.

Polonius3 980 | 12276

5 Feb 2016 / #14

no capital letters in Polish Alphabet

When one types in all caps WESOŁYCH ŚWIĄT or the name MALIŃSKI or CZĘSTOCHOWA, then all upper-case letters are needed.