[Update] Faure 0.3 (Play release)
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Fri Nov 29 15:48:54 UTC 2002
Check out Genie. It's really terrific. Nathanael did a great job!
Cheers,
Alan
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At 1:39 PM +0100 11/29/02, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>Russell Allen wrote:
>
>> The scribble pad definately needs to be multipage; it also needs to be
>> saved by default (at the moment you will lose the scribble if you quit
>> the image). How to save these things most effectively I'm not sure;
>> maybe magma or minnestore...
>
>My first thought was a book morph. But it needs more indexing
>capabilities
>as one will add stuff possibly over many years.
>This need some carefull thinking...
>
>> Handwriting recognition is a biggie. I haven't tried out genie yet; so
>> I can't comment. I'll have a look at it though. My goal would be a
>> system that wasn't so damn modal as Palm/WinCE - I hate having to either
>> write in a special place or to switch into a 'keyboard mode' to write
>> anything.
>
>This is my impression, too. I have not used either palm nor win ce but
>extensivly but there has to be a better way.
>
>>
>> If genie works the way I suspect it would, then there will be problems
>> with an after-the-fact recognition of letters in a saved bitmap. Most
>> character recognition stuff I know of uses pen stroke info - you'd
>> either have to save the strokes, or use a dedicated OCR program.
>>
>
>Storing this info should not be so hard. A morphs path can be stored
>as array of points. But I really don't now anything about character
>recognition so all I can do is speculate.
>
>Karl
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