[squeak-dev] SqueakJS keyboard input (was: Wrote a little about OnScreenKeyboardMorph)

Vanessa Freudenberg vanessa at codefrau.net
Wed Apr 21 22:23:58 UTC 2021


On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:55 PM Craig Latta <craig at blackpagedigital.com>
wrote:

>
> Hi--
>
>       Douglas Brebner wrote:
>
>  > I just remembered, Squeak has (used to have?) a handwriting
>  > recognition system called Genie. That may make a useful addition to a
>  > phone UI. Maybe even resurrect graffiti from the palm pdas :)
>
>       And on the iPad, there's Scribble. I wrote SqueakJS support for
> it. I hide an invisible HTML text input element underneath wherever
> you're entering text, and Scribble recognizes it. It does both ink-based
> recognition and the sliding-around-on-an-onscreen-keyboard thing, which
> I really like.
>
>       https://vimeo.com/494744698
>

Oh cool! Does it need image-side support? If not I'd love to get this into
SqueakJS proper - I think having a hidden text field might solve the
various issues we have on e.g. Android, or with copy/paste on Safari.

Vanessa
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