From: "Erik Bågfors" <erik@...>
Date: 2001-12-01T00:24:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27076] Re: Musing

On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 15:28, Steve Tuckner wrote:
> The only barrier to doing this is the will to do it. I for one am all for it
> and would LOVE to help on such a project if one was started.
> 
> Aside from the bindings to which GUI framework would be used (QT has an
> implementation that writes directly to the frame buffer, as does GTK -- I
> believe, what about FOX?) the development of the object model, GUI,
> applications, etc could all be done without reference to a PDA.

X actually runs very good on a device like this.  No need for
framebuffer versions of toolkit that can't run at the same time.  If you
use X you can use GTK, QT, FOX, FLTK, Whatever....


> I went through three generations of Newtons before their ultimate demise
> (and I still use by 2100) and have been waiting for a replacement that had
> the elegance of a newton with modern networking functionality. The main
> barrier to acheiving that however is the lack of an open source/free source
> version of a handwriting recognition algorithm (not grafitti or Jot like but
> a real printed recognizer). If that can't be found then we still need
> something like grafitti or Jot (and this may exist).

It does.  Check out http://www.handhelds.org and
http://qpe.sourceforge.net  Both have their version of grafitti/jot-like
recognizers.

> 
> Count me in if any one wants to get started on this!!
> 

ruby runs fine on the ipaq (and should on almost any handheld).  The big
problem is that it's really limited in space and the familiar-guys are
python-fans and it doesn't feel good to have both python and ruby on the
device. (familiar is the linux-distribution for ipaq's that's on
handhelds.org)

/Erik 
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