Extra Keys for Windows version update

Extra keys and Extra Keys Pro are updated to version 3.0.1.
This a very minor update with bug fixes and other small code changes, no other alterations. Due to the bug fixes, all users are recommended to update to this version.

The Linux edition remains at 3.0.0 for now, as the changes above are not relevant.

Extra Keys for Linux

Extra Keys Pro X for Linux

 

Been a long time coming but finally here! There is now an Extra Keys for Linux.

Just one edition equivalent to Extra Keys Pro on Windows. There is no ultra-simple basic edition as I didn’t feel it had much appeal on Linux. Also I first made this Linux version primarily for my own personal use and I mostly use … … read more

New versions of Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro

These are major updates taking both Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro to version 3.0.0. The user interface of the panel has been extensively revised to give a cleaner and more consistent appearance regardless of the operating system release it’s run on. There are a number of other changes plus some improvements for the Armenian and Georgian key sets.

Extra Keys accent typing panel

Although … … read more

Update to Extra Keys Pro – version 2.2.8

This release of the Pro edition of Extra Keys adds a new key set for the International Phonetic Alphabet. There are also a couple of other very minor changes such as adding selection options to the pop-up menu on the System Tray icon.

There is no change for the standard Extra Keys program and no plan to add the IPA … … read more

Plant Base – new version 2.1.13

New update of Plant Base was released today and is available on the Download page. For all desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.

This is only a minor maintenance update with a few small bug fixes and other minor changes. For the Windows edition this includes support for the recently released update of Extra Keys.

However, there is … … read more

Version updates of Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro

New version updates for both Extra Keys (2.2.4) and Extra Keys Pro (2.2.6) are now available for download.

The most noticeable change is that the key panel window no longer gets the desktop focus when a button or other control is clicked.  This means that the active window does not change, which is most likely the target application for entering … … read more

Updates for Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro

There are new version updates for both Extra Keys (2.2.3) and Extra Keys Pro (2.2.5).

These are maintenance releases only and are otherwise the same as the previous recent versions.  However, they have some modifications that may help resolve a problem where the keys window fails to open on a few Windows 10 systems.  Not all systems were affected and … … read more

New versions of Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro

Our popular Windows desktop Extra Keys and the similar Pro edition both have new versions – 2.2.2 and 2.2.4 respectively.

Two new key sets have been added, both in the Latin character range – Austronesian and Esperanto.  Austronesian covers a very wide range of indigenous languages spread across the the Pacific and the islands of Australasia. So it is now … … read more

Extra Keys Pro is now Free

From version 2.2.4 Extra Keys Pro is freeware! – exactly like the standard Extra Keys tool for entering accents and other characters.  It was previously only available on payment of a small fee but with this new version the licence code authentication has been completely removed.

So now the choice between standard Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro is entirely … … read more

Extra Keys ‘Pro’ edition is released

This has been waiting in the wings for quite a while, but finally completed and released!  Extra Keys Pro is an extended edition aimed at web writers, computer programmers and possibly technical writers.  It is based on the latest standard edition and looks much the same. However,  it offers the important additional capability of outputting characters in a number of … … read more