What's new in beKEY 1.8.1.0
Mar 4, 2023
- Fix: When the monitor configuration chaned, beKEY could open outside the visible area when the option "Window can be moved outside screen" was active
New in beKEY 1.7.4.0 (Aug 15, 2020)
- New option to hide the profile switch key (user request)
New in beKEY 1.5.9.7 (Jul 19, 2016)
- Visual confirmation of key presses by displaying a small border around the key
- This setting is switched off by default and can be enabled in the settings window under "Click Mode".
New in beKEY 1.5.9.6 (Jul 19, 2016)
- New keyboard layouts (PC-Kompass version only)
New in beKEY 1.5.9.5 (Jul 19, 2016)
- New semi-automatic scan mode (beKEY deluxe SCAN version only)
New in beKEY 1.5.9.0 (Jul 19, 2016)
- Function to check and repair the word database
- Sometimes words appeared multiple times in the word dictionary which also
- couldn't be deleted. How this happened is still unclear. But if this happened for you, this function should be able to remove the unwanted entries
- The function can be found in the settings window, under "Misc."
- It's recommended to make a backup of your word database before using the function
New in beKEY 1.5.8.7 (Jul 19, 2016)
- Entries in the word dictionary couldn't be edited under some circumstances.
New in beKEY 1.5.8.6 (Jul 19, 2016)
- Fix display problem when resizing on High DPI screens
New in beKEY 1.5.8.4 (Jul 19, 2016)
- Fix: Border width was not saved
New in beKEY 1.5.8.3 (Sep 18, 2014)
- After a recent security update for Windows 7® and Windows 8®, the "Shift" key didn't work correctly on some systems. This required bigger changes that could lead to some undetected side effects. If the new version causes problem on your system, you can switch back to the old one: Tray icon -> Settings (extended) -> Uncheck "Alternative SHIFT/CTRL/ALT handling"
- Settings, word prediction: New option "Active caps lock creates full capitalized text". If this option is checked, clicking a word prediction or text macro key with active Caps Lock will write the text with all capitals.
- Settings, text macros: New option "Switch back to word prediction after use". This option can be set for each text macro individually. If it's set, clicking on a text macro key will switch back to the word prediciton keys afterwards.
New in beKEY 1.5.7.4 (Sep 18, 2014)
- Small adjustments to the "Tablet" keyboard layout
New in beKEY 1.5.7.2 (Sep 18, 2014)
- Error correction: The position of the beKEY window was sometimes not saved correctly, so that it was invisible after the next start.
New in beKEY 1.5.7.1 (May 24, 2014)
- Adjustments for high resolution screens under Windows 7 and Windows 8
New in beKEY 1.5.6.2 (May 24, 2014)
- A few special option base on user wishes. These can be found in the extended settings window. (Click on beKEY tray icon -> Settings #2)
- beKEY window can be dragged by clicking on the beKEY logo
- Right clicking a word proposal key automatically adds a "Return"
- Right clicking a word proposal key writes an uppercase version of that word
- beKEY window can be moved to be partly outside the screen boundaries (Reset through the tray icon menu: "Reset window position")
New in beKEY 1.5.6.1 (May 24, 2014)
- Dictionary window: Languages were only display as short abbreviations
New in beKEY 1.5.6.0 (May 24, 2014)
- For some users with Windows 8, clicking beKEY to type a letter deactivated the window of the current application. We could not reproduce this problem here, but as an experimental fix, there is the option "Mouse hook always active" in the extended settings
New in beKEY 1.5.5.8 (Jan 29, 2013)
- Win key was not reset correctly
- If the option "automatically add space after word" was switched off, the word prediction did not work correctly
- Search for new program version can now be triggered manually
New in beKEY 1.5.5.6 (Dec 18, 2012)
- Word prediction sometimes switched itself to "read only" mode so that it didn't learn any new words
New in beKEY 1.5.5.4 (Dec 18, 2012)
- Status of right CTRL key was not reset correctly sometimes
New in beKEY 1.5.5.2 (Dec 18, 2012)
- First character after an automatically removed "space" was sometimes wrong
- Saved window position on screen was wrong by 1 pixel under certain conditions
- Message and error dialog now close automatically after a few seconds
- Update to new program version now possible from inside the application
New in beKEY 1.5.5.1 (Dec 5, 2012)
- Small fixes in the new "Tablet" layout
New in beKEY 1.5.4.1 (Dec 5, 2012)
- New experimental "Tablet" layout
- Rightclick on word prediction or macro key adds "Return" after the written text
New in beKEY 1.5.4.0 (Dec 5, 2012)
- New, second settings window for less frequently used settings
- This also gives the space to provide special options that were requested by individual users
- Can only be opened through the tray menu)
- Option to hide ALT/CTRL/MENU keys individually
- Only in certain keyboard layouts)
- Option to change the width of the outer border of the keyboard
- Option to replace the left shift key with "Return" key
- Only in certain keyboard layouts)
- Option to enable alternative method for "delete word"
- it uses the key combination CTRL-SHIFT-CURSOR LEFT + DELETE which works in most text editors)
New in beKEY 1.5.3.9 (Dec 5, 2012)
- Fix: Fast right-clicks did not always create uppercase character