sounds good :)<br><br><a href="http://liqbase.net/liq.20090728_013953.liqbase_net.scr.png">http://liqbase.net/liq.20090728_013953.liqbase_net.scr.png</a><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Andrew Daviel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:advax@triumf.ca">advax@triumf.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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A suggestion for tablet GUI/applications:<br>
<br>
I'd like to be able to enter a scribble directly as an input field (FYI,<br>
one could do this in NCSA Mosaic - "jot", as I recall). And I'd like to<br>
be able to use a scribble as a filename.<br>
<br>
<br>
I was trying to add a mark to a GPS track in Maemo Mapper, on an N810 in<br>
the vehicle mount. I.e. trying to use the handwriting recognizer rather<br>
than removing the tablet from the mount and opening the keyboard.<br>
I didn't need it to be 100% correct, I just needed to be able to read it<br>
myself later. Which is not so easy; it tends to read my "Gate" as "9ot 3"<br>
or something.<br>
<br>
Then I realized that if I could just save the actual handwriting, rather<br>
than trying to get it recognized, it would save a lot of trouble (OK, bad<br>
example, GPX requires UTF8, but you get the idea. Or scribbles could be<br>
escaped to text for transport).<br>
Ditto for "save file as". If one is using a GUI file selector, which<br>
shows files graphically as icons, then using a scribble as the icon is a<br>
natural extension. If the computer stores the name internally as some<br>
255-byte value, the user doesn't care - as long as it can be renamed or<br>
used as-is in the GUI.<br>
<br>
We abandoned 8+3 filenames, we abandoned ASCII, maybe we can abandon<br>
text. Photos as filenames ? Sound clips for the blind ?<br>
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Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada<br>
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