That looks good - is it something that only works with orange-guava?
Writing code with a pen
I just uploaded a little app which I think changes coding in slate mode from nearly impossible to nearly as good as a keyboard.
If you like the idea of being able to use tablet input for nearly everything, try it out and post any feedback here.
Download: http://www.orangeguava.com/download.html
Demo video: http://www.orangeguava.com/inputdemo.wmv
That looks good - is it something that only works with orange-guava?
OrangeGuava is just the company name. The only way it is connected to OrangeGuava Desktop is that if you already downloaded one you will have the .NET 2.0 framework and can download the smaller file for the other.
It seems to me that they over complicated the input process. Writing code in a tool like visual studio should be very easy and extremely acurate in most situations (if they support writing in VS, which they don't directly). As the demo video shows, intelli-sense answers most of the questions about what should be valid input. There are times when arbitrary expressions could be problematic, but most of the time free-form writing should be very reliable if the code editor supported this.
Intellisense does make things a lot easier. However, even with that writing code needs far greater character level accuracy than anything else. In the video I started by writing "collector" - a variable name in lower case. At that point "Collection" would have been equally valid and produced with the same keystrokes, the only difference being the case of the c, a level of recognition which is often not much better than random if you don't provide some extra information.
one simple thing that would improve it greatly is a minimise button. other than that it works quite well.
And now it has one, along with a couple of other layout improvements.
Excelent - I shall download the new one later then
Fantastic. I'll give it a try as well.
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