The current system works well, but is cumbersome, mostly due to needing to make a connection to another machine, either real or virtual. After that, it's very low-maintenance in my experience - I can even suspend-and-resume and it comes up working.
But setting up the VM is a hurdle, and that VM takes up RAM I'd rather use for Linux. I've thought of another way. Several actually.
There are some companies that have solved the handwriting problem. I thought of getting one of them to offer licenses for a modest price. I would pay for that. I contacted one of them that mentioned a Linux version, but they didn't follow up with me about it.
It occurred to me that I had effectively already purchased a license with the Tablet XP provided with my slate, so I developed this solution.
The other possibility aside from the above would be to write a Windows COM application that, when installed on XP, provides the recognition interface that the server does now. Then write a WINE wrapper that can access that application on the installed Tablet XP partition from the running copy of Linux. No VM. No committed RAM. Recognition on demand.
Windows COM programming is a dying art - Microsoft is trying to kill it with .NET. It would take me quite a bit to learn it, and aside from this, there is no payoff.
And that's just the start - I'd also have to learn about WINE programming. This all will not be happening soon - and this might not even be possible for unknown technical reasons. (But it's tantalizing, isn't it?)
But there are many accomplished Windows COM programmers out there, some of whom are Linux friendly, and likewise there are WINE programmers. It would be very helpful if I could get some of them interested. Or if you (dear reader) could.
Another approach would be to pay the CodeWeaver people to write it. I haven't approached them about this yet - in the two years since I released this project, only one handful of people have contacted me at all about it. But if there's interest…
Don't send me money (well, ok, if you really want to). Instead, tell me you're interested, and might be willing to donate to getting this written, so we can all use it. If there's enough interest, then I'll do something about it (and hopefully you meant it about the donation part).
Or find us a Windows COM programmer. Or be one that's interested. Ditto for a WINE programmer (probably rarer).
This was ALWAYS intended to be a throw-away, just a soon as someone writes Free handwriting recognition. But this way, we can develop ALL THE REST of the handwriting related interface and tools, so it's ready when that day arrives, and I can fade back into well-deserved obscurity.
So, do you want to do something about this? Let me (us) know.
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The current system works well, but is cumbersome, mostly due to needing to make a connection to another machine, either real or virtual. After that, it's very low-maintenance in my experience - I can even suspend-and-resume and it comes up working.
But setting up the VM is a hurdle, and that VM takes up RAM I'd rather use for Linux. I've thought of another way. Several actually.
There are some companies that have solved the handwriting problem. I thought of getting one of them to offer licenses for a modest price. I would pay for that. I contacted one of them that mentioned a Linux version, but they didn't follow up with me about it.
It occurred to me that I had effectively already purchased a license with the Tablet XP provided with my slate, so I developed this solution.
The other possibility aside from the above would be to write a Windows COM application that, when installed on XP, provides the recognition interface that the server does now. Then write a WINE wrapper that can access that application on the installed Tablet XP partition from the running copy of Linux. No VM. No committed RAM. Recognition on demand.
Windows COM programming is a dying art - Microsoft is trying to kill it with .NET. It would take me quite a bit to learn it, and aside from this, there is no payoff.
And that's just the start - I'd also have to learn about WINE programming. This all will not be happening soon - and this might not even be possible for unknown technical reasons. (But it's tantalizing, isn't it?)
But there are many accomplished Windows COM programmers out there, some of whom are Linux friendly, and likewise there are WINE programmers. It would be very helpful if I could get some of them interested. Or if you (dear reader) could.
Another approach would be to pay the CodeWeaver people to write it. I haven't approached them about this yet - in the two years since I released this project, only one handful of people have contacted me at all about it. But if there's interest…
Don't send me money (well, ok, if you really want to). Instead, tell me you're interested, and might be willing to donate to getting this written, so we can all use it. If there's enough interest, then I'll do something about it (and hopefully you meant it about the donation part).
Or find us a Windows COM programmer. Or be one that's interested. Ditto for a WINE programmer (probably rarer).
This was ALWAYS intended to be a throw-away, just a soon as someone writes Free handwriting recognition. But this way, we can develop ALL THE REST of the handwriting related interface and tools, so it's ready when that day arrives, and I can fade back into well-deserved obscurity.
So, do you want to do something about this? Let me (us) know.