Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

Video and source code:

http://blog.atnnn.com/p/handwriting-...r-on-the-n900/

It's a port of CellWriter (http://risujin.org/cellwriter/).

Apart from making most applications crash after a while, the plugin works very well.

I'll package it once the bugs are fixed.

It's on garage now

Re: Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

Good news....

Re: Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

I hope this becomes real. The author should integrate it with the virtual keyboard. A button in the virtual keyboard should be added to switch to handwriting recognition.

Re: Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

Thanks!!
Looks promising :)

If I'm an adventurous, where should the .so file be placed?

Re: Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

Awesome!... :)

Re: Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

Cool thing!
Is there any public code repo for it (e.g. svn/hg/git)?

Re: Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

Brilliant! It's the one thing i really miss from my old SE p910i
Keep up the good work atnnn

Re: Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

That would be nice. Sadly, the default virtual keyboard is closed source and the example keyboard sucks. It could still be possible, but I don't yet know how.

It will make your applications crash and might brick your n900, but you can place it in /usr/lib/hildon-input-method/, run hildon-im-recache as root and then set the gconf key /apps/osso/input-method/default-settings/finger to "him_cellwriter".

Soon. I just submitted a request to the garage for a git repo.

Re: Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

Sorry if it is a daft question, but after doing those things, how is it actually activated? Is there a simple way to do bring it up like there is with the onscreen keyboard, or is it something else?

Re: Preview: Handwriting recognition on the N900
 

It is activate exactly the same way as the default virtual keyboard that it replaces. The default plugin is called hildon_western_fkb.

If you have setup another input plugin, placing "hildon_western_fkb" back in the gconf key /apps/osso/inputmethod/default-plugins/finger will restore the default keyboard.