Great!  Thanks for these pointers...I know I'll need them.  I'm hoping I'll 
get a chance to try it out on the iPaq sometime this week.

I really like the way Genie has been integrated with the overall system.  
CharRecog was only loosely tied to Text-based Morphs, and was clumsy to 
activate on a solely pen-based system (ie with no keyboard present)...this is 
much, much nicer.
 
I'll keep you posted on the performance once I've squeezed it onto my iPaq 
flash. :)



> I'm glad you like it and it will be really cool if you can make it run on
> your iPaq! While I was at Disney, I've tested it on an Intel StrongARM
> prototype (200MHz) and it worked. But I haven't tested it extensively and
> I'm curious about your experience.
> 
> Here are a few comments about using Genie on small machines:
> 
> - Every dictionary has an option speed in the basic tab. There you can
> adjust the speed-performance tradeoff. A value of 100% neans maximum speed,
> while a value of 0% means best accuracy. Maybe you have to adjust this
> depending on your machine...
> 
> - Note that you can use the same gesture dictionaries on both your PC and
> your iPaq. The only thing you have to to is to adjust the display
> properties.
> 
> - Tell me if it's too slow on your iPaq. Most of the time is spent in one
> single method that tries to find the best match for a gesture and I could
> make a primitive for that in the VM. Actually, Andreas and me already wanted
> to do it when I was at Disney, but I went out of time...
> 
> - Another thing that influences performance is dictionary inheritance. This
> is basically really nice because you have to define a gesture only once,
> even if you want to use it in several dictionaries. However, lookup in
> dictionaries with lots of inheritance take a bit longer.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathanael
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Fisher [mailto:kgf at golden.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:10 AM
> > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: Genie for Squeak 3.0 (was: New character recognizer?)
> >
> >
> >
> > Oh wow, this is just wonderful!  I've spent the last hour or
> > more with Genie
> > and my Wacom tablet...this is just great stuff!!
> >
> > I can't wait till I can get this up on my iPaq...
> >
> >