That sounds like a great idea!  That way maybe I can get some help
explaining to my wife how this is better than a pad of paper!

Brent Vukmer wrote:
>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.


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