From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-15T09:17:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Windows Vista Tablet PC, handwriting and Open Source Software

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Axel Etzold wrote:
| Dear all,
|
| sorry for asking something off-topic. I know there are
| many Windows experts on this list and I couldn't find
| any response somewhere else yet.
|
| I have a handheld PC running Windows Vista Ultimate (actually
| an OQ02) which has a handwriting recognition tool.
| This works very nicely for input of text into, say, Internet Explorer,
| or Notepad or any other Microsoft-manufactured software.
| But it doesn't for Firefox or OpenOffice or other open source software
| I have tried so far.
| What is the reason for this ?

Nobody has implemented the necessary code for these programs to talk to
the handwriting recognition API in Windows?

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