Russell Allen wrote:
The scribble pad definately needs to be multipage; it also needs to be saved by default (at the moment you will lose the scribble if you quit the image). How to save these things most effectively I'm not sure; maybe magma or minnestore...
My first thought was a book morph. But it needs more indexing capabilities as one will add stuff possibly over many years. This need some carefull thinking...
Handwriting recognition is a biggie. I haven't tried out genie yet; so I can't comment. I'll have a look at it though. My goal would be a system that wasn't so damn modal as Palm/WinCE - I hate having to either write in a special place or to switch into a 'keyboard mode' to write anything.
This is my impression, too. I have not used either palm nor win ce but extensivly but there has to be a better way.
If genie works the way I suspect it would, then there will be problems with an after-the-fact recognition of letters in a saved bitmap. Most character recognition stuff I know of uses pen stroke info - you'd either have to save the strokes, or use a dedicated OCR program.
Storing this info should not be so hard. A morphs path can be stored as array of points. But I really don't now anything about character recognition so all I can do is speculate.
Karl