David -

This sounds like a great project.  Are you keeping notes on what you're
doing, online somewhere?  <cough> on the Swiki <cough>?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Faught [mailto:dave_faught at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 1:42 PM
> To: Squeak Mailing List
> Subject: Dynabook Usability
> 
> 
> I have been playing with something roughly along the same lines, but
> I'm a more concrete example kind of person.  Recently, I bought an old
> 233 mhz tablet computer to see what kind of fun I could have being
> wireless and mobile.  The tablet came with a separate 
> keyboard, but for
> the purpose of being very mobile, I decided that an on-screen keyboard
> would work better.  To do the virtual paper thing in Squeak, a first
> attempt led me to try a BookMorph.  This seems to do a fair job,
> although there is no intelligence behind it, as there might be with
> something like Jacaranda.  The next thing I need to do is add a Genie
> gesture to bring up a new PaintInvokingMorph to fill the pages of the
> BookMorph a bit quicker.
> 
> Even though I am using Genie for "control" gestures, I opted 
> to not use
> it for text recognition, preferring instead the on-screen keyboard, or
> just straight painting.  So far, this is working pretty well.
>