Text Plus is a Palm OS enhancement that can significantly improve the speed and accuracy of text entry on your Palm device. TextPlus supports intelligent dictionary-based suggestion of words and phrases to speed up your text entry and greatly minimize spelling errors.
When you enter one or more letters of a word or a phrase in any Palm application, a list of words and phrases that start with these letters is displayed. When you tap on any of the words or any of the phrases, your choice is automatically inserted at the current cursor location. The need for a separate spell checker is greatly reduced.
One unique feature of TextPlus is its frequency-based intelligent search engine, which chooses only frequently used words and phrases for suggestion. The frequency of each word and phrase is updated automatically as you use TextPlus so that the speed and accuracy of your text entry would increase over time.
TextPlus is comprised of two major components: the TextPlus text editor allows you to enter long sentences and paragraphs and then paste them to other Palm applications (copy is done automatically), while the new TextPlus Anywhere (TM) technology allows you to use frequency-based word and phrase suggestion in any Palm applications.
This is the English version. See the developer's site for other languages and additional material.
Note: To upgrade from a previous version, first disable (do not delete) TextPlus Anywhere and Graffiti Echo from the options menu.
malatesta: I really like this app as it brings was is native in WinMobile to the Treo..and it was sorely needed (should be built in).
As far as stablility goes: I'd give it a 95%. The one app I have issues with, believe it or not, is the SMS text app built in the Treo. On my Sprint 1.13a phone, while have TextPlus assigned to "all programs" it'll crash every time an SMS comes in. Figured it out after spending an hour diagnosing. I know get around the problem by not enabling "all programs" and selecting all the ones I want, sans "Messaging".
Too bad for that as that's probably my #2 text input on the treo. But other than that it works great in my Xiino, Web and Chatter apps. Hope it keeps being developed!
37824323: Reboots when I try to change options. You would think that the creator would have solved this problem.
august6th: It's absolutely outstanding! But I hope with the next version, it could be disabled in some specific programs.
cellneuron: Excellent, use it everyday, should be included in OS. (PPC has it from year 2000).
exjoburger: Excellent program, been using it since 2003 - it really speeds up text entry (and works very well on my Treo 600!)
Southpaw018: Not a bad utility when it works. The main problem is that it reboots my 650 whever the "don't forget to register (click to continue)" box pops up, and that's more than enough for me to look to other solutions.
Revision History
Version 5.8 (02/28/06)
- Automatically lock TextPlus in internal memory on NVFS based devices for improved stability.
- Fixed popup list display problem in certain third party applications.
- Added the support for sliding stylus over the popup lists to change word or phrase selection.
Version 5.7 (04/08/05)
- Added support for T9 type keyboard used on Palm OS based smartphones.
System Requements:
Palm OS 3.0 or above and 410 KB of memory.
TextPlus works with Graffiti and Graffiti replacements such as Jot and TealScript, onscreen software keyboard and other software keyboard replacements such as Keyboard Hack and Keyboard Hack II, Graffiti area keyboard attachments such as FitalyStamp and QuickType, and external hardware keyboard such as Palm Portable Keyboard and GoType Keyboard, as well as virtually all other alternative input methods.
TextPlus works with all built-in applications, as well as most third party applications, including WordSmith, Documents To Go, QuickOffice, etc.
FREE TextPlus databases available (English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swiss, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian, Norwegian, Medical, Bible, and more ...).
Features of TextPlus:
- Dictionary based word list and phrase list help complete words and phrases after one or more letters are entered.
- Automatic update of the list of suggested words and phrases whenever you enter a letter or delete a letter.
- Unique Frequency-Based Intelligent Search Engine - the words and phrases displayed are always optimal.
- TextPlus Anywhere (TM) technology allows you to use frequency-based word and phrase suggestion in any Palm applications. In addition to Graffiti, TextPlus Anywhere also supports the system keyboard and most other character input devices and programs.
- Graffiti Echo allows you to see your graffiti strokes as you write, increasing text entry speed and accuracy.
- Fully Customizable Dictionary
- Flexible database support allows you to compose in multiple languages and/or multiple subjects.
- Enhanced Sort Support - Word List and Phrase List can be sorted by frequency, by length, or by alphabetical order.
- Complete Editing Support - Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Select, Clear; Keyboard, Graffiti Help; Auto Shift, Auto Insert Space, Auto Complete.
- Font selection for Text Field, Word List and Phrase List.