Re: [iPAQ] Browsers and Mail Clients

From: Jim Gettys <jg.a.t.pa.dec.com>
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 16:15:05 EDT

> Another question that I was pondering is how to deal with xscribble --
> it would be nice if one of the buttons could be a scribble toggle, and
> then you could scribble anywhere on the screen instead of just in the
> xscribble window. This would save a lot of screen real estate, and make
> the machine more useful overall.
>
>

Actually, you can do better yet... You can write a program that goes looking
for windows that want input events, and "do the right thing": for large
windows, allow scribbling anywhere, for small dialog boxes, pop up a window
to scribble in. This can be done the same way that Bob Scheifler did speech
recognition control of X (the atox program).
                        - Jim

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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg@pa.dec.com
Received on Wed Sep 20 13:12:07 2000

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