On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 03:09:01 -0700, "Quintin" wrote:

>Hi, i know quite a few people in that postition, but i suggest you go onto
>the Tablet PC Buzz forums for the best info on it.

That's an interesting forum which I ran across before, but never
stopped to look at.

I found two relevant topics (it was not easy). Both are in the "Tablet
PC Developer Discussion Forum." One is titled "Any tablet-geared dev
software?" And the other is ""Writing" code". The latter is from last
October, so you have to select "Show topics from the last year" to see
it.

The bottom line seems to be that coding on a tablet PC doesn't work
worth a darn except with the virtual keyboard. The recognition
software applies all of the rules that it uses to recognize characters
correctly in an English text, and comes up with garbage. There was
some talk about true visual development tools (which let you write
applications without writing code), but those do not interest me -- I
know they would be useful for some applications, but not for the ones
I'm interested in developing.

I have been looking forward to using a tablet PC for coding once I can
afford to buy one, and it never occurred to me that using it at a
basic level with the development tools of my choice would present any
special problems. Evidently handwriting recognition is not as
generally useful a tool as I have been led to believe. That's pretty
disappointing, but it's better to find out now than later.

My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.