Just to piggyback on Alan's comment...

1. See my other rambling post, in reply to Stef.

2. Genie, unlike a lot of other newer Squeak technologies, does indeed run
on older Squeaks- at least 3.1a, probably 3.0, but probably nothing before
that.  It can do a ton more than CharRecog- but CharRecog is a single
long method that is deadly simple and just as elegant. But a serious
Squeak PDA project- like my ressurected Dynapad [1]- will be based on
Genie and not CharRecog or something similar.

[1] Dynapad resurection is waiting 'til I have hardware decent enough to
run newer Squeaks without wanting to pull my hair out. :P

Regards,
Aaron

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On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Alan Kay wrote:

> And, of course, there is the Genie recognizer that Nathaniel wrote,
> which is a much more comprehensive recognizer with many useful tools
> that both Nathaniel and then Ned Konz added.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> ------------
>
> At 02:04 PM 10/5/2006, Aaron Reichow wrote:
> >On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Gerald Leeb wrote:
> >
> > > @Stef: Are there any special benchmark you are interested in? If yes,
> > > please send me the code an I will run it for you.
> >
> >Could you start by running 0 tinyBenchmarks? That would be helpful.
> >
> > > Actually I don't know how to act with a pen only (no 3 button mouse)
> > > and with no virtual keyboard yet - can anyone give me a hint?
> >
> >As a longtime Squeak PDA user, I've interacted with Squeak in 3 ways:
> >
> >1. Using the OS's input methods (virtual keyboard, HWR, etc),
> >
> >2. Using a virtual keyboard for Squeak that I wrote, or
> >
> >3. Using an updated and modified CharRecog.  CharRecog is a really neat
> >character recognition engine that, if memory serves me, Alan himself wrote
> >for Squeak.  Unlike Grafiti, you have to train it, it doesn't come with
> >any built-in set of gestures.  To use it, I used to define one of the
> >hardware buttons on the PDA I was using as the hotkey to start it within
> >the text field. I think there is an alt key command that will start it as
> >well, but I don't remember what it is. I also added an item to the
> >scrollbar menu to start it.  I've written a fair amount of code and text
> >with this- once you get it trained up enough, it is pretty useful, and it
> >is very responsive.
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >Aaron
>
>
>