Hi

In the next days, there will be a new version of Genie in the update stream
and I also make it 
available here for the people who want to use it but do not want to follow
all the updates in the 
stream. The main improvement is performance: The new version contains a VM
plugin which 
makes Genie about 5 to 10 times faster. Therefore, i highly recommend this
update especially for 
people using Genie on a slower machine (like iPaq). With more speed, it's so
much more fun!

Here is a short description of the new features:
- More than 10 times faster lookup (with VM plugin)
	    - New VM plugin (by Stephan Rudlof) and optimized image level code
	    - Execute 'CRRecognizer checkPluginVersion' and watch the Transcript
output in order
	to check availability/compatibility of the VM plugin.
- Faster graphical feedback (especially imporant for PDAs)
- New dictionary format
	    - Old dictionaries are automatically converted to the new format. This
convertion includes
	modification of the parameters 'speed' and 'curvature relevance'. This is
necessary to retain
	the behavior of the dictionaries with the optimized algorithms.
	    - The new format is backwards compatible. This means that new
dictionaries can still be used
	with Genie v1.0. However, the parameters 'speed' and 'curveture relevance'
are interpreted
	slightly different, which may lead to slower recognition or inaccuracies in
Genie v1.0.
- Improved UI (Improved morphs to inspect/modify gesture dictionaries resp.
display properties)
- BugFixes

The new version is available for Squeak 3.0 and Squeak 3.1/3.2. Depending o
your version, you 
have to use the following Changeset:

Squeak 3.0: GenieUpdateToV202-S30.cs
Squeak 3.1/3.2: GenieUpdateToV202.cs

You can download the these changesets from the following website:
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~schaerli/genie2/
On this site, you also find a couple of example dictionaries that may be
useful to get started.
Note that there is a complete description of Genie in the class comment of
the class 
AGenieIntroduction.

Cheers,
Nathanael

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