On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Benjamin Long wrote:
> Why not use the entire screen as a scribble pad (Compleatly transparent window),
> activated and deactivated by a button press? Then, you would waist NO screen area
> (except perhaps for something that tells you when the OCR is turned on)? You could
> also fix your focus issues this way (transparent window on top without focus).
All the time this discussion lasts I head just a feeling that something might
be wrong with the entire idea. Don't misunderstand me, I think this would be
really cool, but something stopped me from euphoria ;)
Then I thought of the other PDAs with scribble like handwriting recognition and
asked myself, why didn't they do it?
I think I found a possible reason.
How do you intend to handle cursor movement or button tapping?
The whole screen is used and almost any possible way to use the scribble area
is used for scribble functions (for example the simple dot-tap is used to
switch modes).
The scribble application would have to be very precise in recognizing and
distinguishing between window controlling funktions (like button press or
cursor movement) and character recognition. All this is avoided by using an
explicit scribble window.
Just my $0.02 ;)
> Benjamin Long
CU
nils faerber
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