Handwriting software - SL-C860

[jurwit]

Does anyone know how to turn on handwriting software on SL-C860?
Is in installed originally? What\'s the name of this software/package to be installed?

jurwit

[Stubear]

The handwriting software that originally comes with the is called CRIM (Character recognition input method) and is represented by the Japanese character \"a\" - looks like a squiggly pigs tail with a line through it - next to a blue pencil which is next to the Q menu icon in the bottom left. If that is showing then click on the pencil and the handwriting input area pops up - it is mainly designed for Japanese characters, but you can write English if you are carefull. If it isnt showing then click on the black arrow next to it to bring up a list of input methods installed - depending on where you got your C860 there might be an English language version of the handwriting sotware (called Handwriting funnily enough) select that or CRIM to activate it.

If you have neither of these on your C860 you can download the english handwriting applet fot qtopia compiled for the bigger screen of the C760/C860 at http://moria.ionkov.net/zaurus/c760/

Hope that helps

[Miami_Bob]

Jurwit -

Go to

   homeQtPalmtoppluginsinputmethods

There should already be 3 libqkeyboard* files

Make symbolic links to all files except these 3 from

   useQtPalmtop.rompluginsinputmethods*

to the

   homeQtPalmtoppluginsinputmethods

location.

Reboot.

On my C860 this got a japanese character, the pencil icon & an upward pointing triangle where the keyboard was on the left end of the task bar.

The triangle gets a popup menu of 6 choices. The old keyboard is one of them, so you haven\'t \"lost\" anything here. The CRIM is the handwriting pad.

Click the japanese key on the upper right above the (ESC) key to cycle between 3 input boards. I\'m working now on translation of this section of the big C860 PDF manual from the CD that came with the machine.

The output from these all seem to be in either UTF8 or SJIS, including the keyboard\'s english letters so they may show up strange in apps that only understand ASCII/ANSI encoding.

Hope this helps some.


Bob W
Miami FL

[ZDevil]

I\'ve been struggling with the problem of turning on CRIM but to no avail.  
When I was done with English localization of my C860, and I went to

 /usr/QtPalmtop.rom/plugins/inputmethods/

to symlink the Japanese keyboard files and libCRIM.* to

/home/QtPalmtop/plugins/inputmethods/ .  

After rebooting, my Z got Jpn50Pad, JpnKtnPad, JpnNumPad, JpnSymPad, the default Keyboard, Unicode, and Handwriting.  Everything input works fine; however, I failed to initiate CRIM (want so badly to write Chinese).  The handwriting is only for English input, and I can\'t see any settings for CRIM in the writing area or the tool bar.   Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks a Zillion!

[sacre]

To get alphabets in ASCII, you want to press Fn-0. You will notice on the right hand side of the \"taskbar\" that you have an \"A\" occupying the right half of a tray/box.

Each japanese character is two bytes, so there is a special mode for a two byte alphabet, which is encoded in UTF/SJIS. You can get this special mode by Fn-9. For non-asian users, this is seldom necessary.

Actually, you can toggle all of this in the on-screen keyboard. In hand-writing mode, it is the lone button above the direction keys on the left. The two characters in that button literally mean: half angle.  It wouldn\'t be legible for me to write it here. :-)

[ZDevil]

Thanks.  But I don\'t see the \"A\" you mention or any special change after pressing Fn 0 or Fn 9.  Also my writing input is english handwriting.  CRIM is just missing in the menu...  Any idea?  Thanks again,

[ZDevil]

I downloaded the handwriting input method from http://moria.ionkov.net/zaurus/c760/ and installed it to CF and I did this when doing english localization:

su
cd /opt/QtPalmtop/plugins/inputmethods
rm -i *
cp /mnt/cf/lib* /opt/QtPalmtop/plugins/inputmethods/
cd /opt/QtPalmtop/plugins/inputmethods/
ln -s libqhandwriting.so.1.0.0 libqhandwriting.so.1.0; ln -s libqhandwriting.so.1.0.0 libqhandwriting.so.1; ln -s libqhandwriting.so.1.0.0 libqhandwriting.so
ln -s libqkeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqkeyboard.so.1.0; ln -s libqkeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqkeyboard.so.1 ; ln -s libqkeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqkeyboard.so
ln -s libqunikeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqunikeyboard.so.1.0 ; ln -s libqunikeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqunikeyboard.so.1 ; ln -s libqunikeyboard.so.1.0.0 libqunikeyboard.so

That means I have deleted CRIM...

So how canl I restore CRIM?  Thanks.

[Miami_Bob]

Sorry, folks. Forgot that I had also symlinked LIBFEPMONAPPLET.* from

/usr/QtPalmtop.rom/plugins/applets

to

/home/QtPalmtop/plugins/applets


THIS is what gets the right side symbol that sacre is talking about.

It goes from a narrow \"A\" (for half width roman chars) to japanese symbols for kanji & kana modes. Try pressing the key just left of \"-\" which should toggle kanji <-> Roman input.


ZDevil - do you have the japanese Sharp ROM? Is there a LIBCRIM.CF file symlinked with the other 4 LIBCRIM.*?

CRIM should be the top choice on the pullup list that has \"Jpn50Pad, JpnKtnPad, JpnNumPad, JpnSymPad & keyboard\". CRIM *is* the handwriting input area.

Am I making any sense here?? <G>.

Don\'t worry about having \"deleted\" CRIM, ZDevil. QtPalmtop.rom is just exactly that; in ROM. Won\'t be going away unless you flash a different ROM. Just re do the symlinks back to the /home/QtPalmtop subdirs.

There are no \"settings\" that I know of for CRIM, BTW.

You still with us, jurwit??


Bob W
Miami FL

[ZDevil]

Great, thanks Bob.  I solved (in effect eliminated) the problem by doing a hard reset to revert to the original Jap Sharp ROM.  Then I did English localisation again without going too far to delete programs and files I want to retain.  It is so delightful to see everything including CRIM come back.  For me I think CRIM is easier to use than the english handwriting IM.