Re: sketching program

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:34:37 -0400
"Hicks, Jamey" <Jamey.Hicks_at_hp.com> wrote:

> Luc,
>
> Nice work! I like your idea about a multimedia notebook for the ipaq and it looks like your sketcher is a start at one of the pieces. What file format are you using for the sketches?

I am using xpm currently.
wondering if it would be better (cpu/storage) to use png
wondering also the interest of using compressed xpm (.xpm.gz) if they are stored in a compressed filesystem, is it unnecessary cpu usage?

>
> Please upload your package to handhelds.org. See http://www.handhelds.org/contributing.html for details on how to do this.

time to read it...

luc

>
> Jamey
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luc Pionchon [mailto:luc.pionchon_at_welho.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:14 AM
> > To: gpe_at_handhelds.org
> > Subject: [Gpe] sketching program
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I installed GPE last week,
> > Quite young but already so great! Good work, love it, Adopted!
> >
> > Well, I have a little sketching program I wrote times ago for
> > my own, you might be interested in. Never had time to publish
> > anything, but now here it is:
> > http://www.geocities.com/tonttulanvaara/ipaq/ipaq-sketch-0.1.tar.gz
> > http://www.geocities.com/tonttulanvaara/ipaq/shot1.png
> > http://www.geocities.com/tonttulanvaara/ipaq/shot2.png
> >
> > There is more cleaning, and many improvements to do, but it
> > is quite usable.
> > Also I have some free time now and could port it to GPE.
> > Let me know what you think.
> >
> > Here come some thoughts (...)
> > With devices on which we can easily input sketch
> > (touchscreen) sound (micro/speakers) text (kbd stroke) maybe
> > a notebook should integrate each media, so just present a
> > hierarchy of "notes" then each note is either a text, sketch,
> > sound or a combination of...
> > In the same way applications like contactbook, todolist,
> > agenda(calendar with notes) are "just" a specific hierarchy
> > of "notes" (by alphabetical order/ priority/ chronological
> > order). For example, stroking a contact in a moving bus is
> > hell, so I'ld like to enter a sketch or a voice (if not noisy
> > environment) and maybe later (probably connected with a plain
> > keyborad!) convert it to text.
> > Well, just thinking I could extract a sketchpad widget, as
> > well we could have a sound one. So basicaly PIM data could
> > intergate sketches and sounds.
> >
> > cheers,
> > luc
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Received on Mon Jul 15 2002 - 16:05:29 EDT