Ancient (1996?) Tablet PC and Squeak

David Faught dave_faught at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 15 19:55:04 UTC 2003


Ned Konz wrote:

>On Friday 15 August 2003 11:12 am, David Faught wrote:
>> So my
>> question is this:  how feasible is it to use Squeak in place of
>> the native handwriting recognition, copying text out of Squeak
>> and pasting it into other native OS applications, like the web
>> browser?

> The new Genie recognizer (still unreleased) is quite good, and easy
> to integrate with other applications.
>
> If it were possible to use FFI to fake keystrokes, that might be one
> solution: when your keyboard entry morph gets a recognized character
> (or has one of its keyboard buttons pressed) it can fake a keyboard
> (as well as appending to the clipboard).

Just at a quick glance, it appears to be possible to pass keyboard
events through FFI for Windows, but I'm thinking that there may be a
focus problem with this.  Sounds interesting though.

I want to ask you about the new Genie recognizer, but I figure that if
you had any news, you would tell us.


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