"rockhammer" <rockhammer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Sorry, I hadn't had time to look at this in detail until now.
>
> Hi Nonny, thanks for the link to the google discussions.
>
> Hi SS, thanks for the links to the instructions & the youtube video. I got
> to the point where I can use the IME pad as demo-ed in the video. But I am
> hung up on the following still:
>
> 1) the video showed that the IME pad had the option of "Hand Writing (CH)"
> by CH I guess is meant Chinese. I did manage to find Hand Writing (KO) for
> Korean and Hand Writing (JA) for Japanese, but no (CH). How can I
> find/install that?
>
> 2) the IME pad essentially gives the user the same input methods as the
> Tablet PC Input Panel (as outlined in the www.tipsandtricks.net links).
> However my central question remains which is that both the IME pad and the
> Tablet PC Input Panel, while they work, are unnatural. By that I mean,
> writing with the mouse is difficult when you are used to holding a pen.
> Using
> the touchpad is much more natural but the need to hold the left button
> down
> PLUS having to reposition the cursor between strokes make the touchpad
> even
> more unnatural. The ideal would be that I can use the touchpad: a) without
> holding the left mouse button down; b) without having to reposition the
> cursor between strokes during the writing of a single character; and c)
> use
> one of the two mouse buttons to signal/move the cursor to start writing
> the
> next character.
>
> I read something that sounded very promising here
> http://yedda.com/questions/Writing_t...1499138160555/
> that pointed me to here http://www.synaptics.com/support/utili.cfm. Alas,
> that executible does not seem to want to run in Vista!! The beauty of
> Vista!!
> Sigh.
>
> So if any one of you can move me further towards the ideal as noted above
> that would be much appreciated. Thanks a lot.
If you would like to use this a lot, I would recommend you get a Wacom
tablet. They have come down in price a lot since I got my Intuos, and now
they have... wait, they do not seem to make the Graphire or the other one
any more. Maybe the new Bamboo will be your thing..
http://www.wacom-europe.com/index2.asp?lang=en&pid=3
ss.