I think you can get 90+% of the way there without even registering.
The X development tools require registering though...

cheers

bruce

Lawson English <english at primenet.com> wrote:
> Unless it is top secret in some way, simply registering as an
> online-developer with Apple should get you access to virtually all Mac
> programming documentation.
> 
> There's no NDA for most of this stuff.
> 
> on 11/3/00 10:44 AM, Henrik Gedenryd at Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se wrote:
> 
> > Alan Kay wrote:
> > 
> >> BTW, Nathanial Shaerli spent the summer with us and did an
> >> absolutely fantastic character recognizer that he also beautifully
> >> integrated within morphic, and which includes a terrific UI for
> >> understanding what the recognizer understands and for making changes,
> >> new integrations, etc.
> >> We plan to put this out when the current spate of big internal
> >> changes to Squeak settles down in a month or so, but he might be
> >> induced to send out his changeset earlier for those who are curious.
> > 
> > How hard would it be to write a plugin that would let you use the touchpad
> > of a PowerBook  (etc.) as a writing pad?
> > 
> > (The regular "finger" recognizer doesn't recognize a stylus, it's imprint is
> > too small I guess.)
> > 
> > It would work like the UPS-guys' boxes where you sign for your delivery on a
> > small touchpad-like square. This would give much greater accessibility to
> > pen-based input since you don't need to buy any special hardware or a have a
> > PDA with a touch screen. (And you wouldn't have to develop the recognizer on
> > a 240x160 screen :-)
> > 
> > The first hurdle would be to find out about the calls needed to access the
> > trackpad hardware directly. From this I guess you would read off grid
> > coordinates just like "regular" pen devices. Aside from the hardware access,
> > the rest of the code would be portable to other platforms.
> > 
> > The way to find out about this "unofficial" hardware-access call, I was
> > told, would be as an official, registered Apple developer. Anyone? It's far
> > beyond my hobbyist budget. Given that access I could certainly not resist
> > the temptation of making it work.
> > 
> > I envision having "recognizer" objects that you train with your handwriting
> > style, and that you can move between images or share with others.
> 
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