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Since the switch to SCons, gettext becomes awkward to use. Using the
Plutocracy project's translation system should be sufficient.

CellWriter will disappear if the main window is closed under Unity. The program 
is still running though. It should be accessible from the Unity indicator area.

Tablets do often have keyboards and it is convenient to just type the
character you want to train vs trying to find it in the Unicode pages.

Hello, My name Kiemtheng, from Cambodia, I'm really interesting to join to 
build a HandWriting program- CellWriter into Khmer language, please let me know 
how to build it.

Instead of choosing specific Unicode pages, the user should simply be
presented with a list of languages and only be allowed to use one at a
time. This should be doable with a button on the main window.

It may be possible to remove the window positioning hacks from the
configure event now that XFWM has (supposedly?) fixed window manager hints.
The idea here is to set the window manager gravity hint so that when the
window resizes in the bottom half of the screen it will size upwards
instead of downwards and the user's pen position will not be disturbed.

On the other hand, the version of XFWM that has this has not been released
yet so it may not be a good idea to remove the hacks permanently.

A lot of people have requested actually activating the modifier keys for
real for use in programs like the GIMP rather than just using them when
some other key has been pressed. This is a problem if a special move-window
modifier is used however because it can prevent interaction with the
CellWriter window itself!

The proposed solution is to activate the modifier keys when the cursor is
outside of the CW window and turn them off again when the cursor is within
the CW window bounds.

1) Please describe the problem.
I can use cellwriter as usual. But after restarting my computer and starting 
cellwriter, all the training is gone and I get the start-training again.  

2) What steps will reproduce the problem?
 a) Use training
 b) Restart Computer
 c) Start cellwriter again. 

3) What version are you using? What Linux distribution?
Version:  cellwriter 1.3.4-1.1ubuntu1
Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04.1

Please provide any additional information below.
In case the data is not just saved in the home/ directory – my setup has a 
seperate /home partition which uses the default ubuntu encryption for /home. 

When CellWriter is docked to the bottom of the screen, and you use the
previous-entry menu (small arrow in lower-right corner), the popup that
appears is the correct height, but all entries are scrolled off the bottom
of the popup, and you have to manually scroll down to see them.

When toggling cellwriter (via any means; gesture, hotkey or tray icon) it
does not appear immediately. Instead it appears when I press the mouse
button on the focused window. It appears underneath the focused window
prior to this but does not raise until mouse button is pressed.

Using cellwriter 1.3.4 under Ubuntu Jaunty 64 on a thinkpad x200t. Compiz
is running.
Windows named cellwriter are excluded from window decoration, and included
in Above, Sticky and No Focus in the Window Rules plugin, though disabling
them has no effect.
Switching to metacity (by metacity --replace) prevents this behaviour.

It would be really nice if CellWriter could automatically pop up when the user 
clicks in a text entry field.

When the CellWriter window is inactive, or simply if the mouse is not over
the window, it should turn translucent. This requires compositing to be
enabled.

How can I get my trainning file

I use Ubuntu 9.10 with CellWriter 1.3.4-1 (tried Ubuntu and official
Version, same issue)

I can not write two ore more stroken, after the first line it trys to
recognize the letter... I'm not able to write a "t" or a "4".

It worked with Ubuntu 9.04. Im not sure if its an Ubuntu or CellWriter
problem...

If you need more information ask...

Thanks!

The old profile format should still be supported for reading. It is
however, unwieldy and impractical to use in the long-term. An alternative
needs to be implemented.

Add a new interface option to get a timeout value from the user. After this
time elapses with no activity, the currently input text should be sent out.

1) Please describe the problem.
In cellwriter compiled without the gnome dependency (achieved with the 
--without-gnome 
option), the pen cannot be lifted to write dots on i's, exclamation points, and 
other letters 
which require the lifting of the pen. Normally, cellwriter waits for you to 
completely write the 
letter before it records it, but such is no longer the case. This is a recent 
problem; I have 
compiled cellwriter without gnome in the past, and never experienced this 
issue. This started 
last month. 

2) What steps will reproduce the problem?
Compile cellwriter without gnome, then try training it (or if already trained, 
try dotting an i, 
for instance. In my case, it didn't work, after which I deleted my profile and 
it still didn't 
work).

3) What version are you using? What Linux distribution?
Arch Linux, 64-bit, cellwriter version 1.3.4, gtk2 2.18.4-1, kernel  2.6.31, 
Lenovo x61 tablet.

Please provide any additional information below.
It doesn't appear that cellwriter *isn't* recording the data after the pen is 
lifted. I tried with 
writing an exclamation point, and even though it so quickly flashes while I'm 
writing, 
showing one shape at a time (i.e. first the line, then the point), the letter 
is recognized. But 
this is a real inconvenience because I cannot use cellwriter properly if it 
keeps blanking after 
each stroke. This only does not occur if I compile cellwriter with the gnome 
dependencies, 
which is not something I'm happy with.

There are many hard-coded timeout values throughout the cell widget. These
should be configurable via the options window.

CellWriter should save entered text (securely?) and build up a word
frequency model for text entered by the user.

It might be nice to be able to see all of the samples trained at the same
time and remove bad ones by hand. This would add a new mode to the training
screen.

1) Please describe the problem.

Some gimp functions (e.g. clone) require holding the control key while
pressing the mouse button. Unfortunately gimp didn't recognize the virtual
keyboard's control button being pressed. For what its worth, xev does not
seem to pick up on it either.

2) What steps will reproduce the problem?

Run gimp and try to set the source for a clone operation using only
CellWriter's virtual keyboard, stylus & button.

3) What version are you using? What Linux distribution?

CellWriter 1.3.4, Debian testing/squeeze.

1) Please describe the problem.

Using gedit, I noticed CellWriter kept stopping/quitting unexpectedly upon
entering multiple newlines via its "Enter" button. It also happens in
Firefox' textedit box.

2) What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. launch gedit
2. Hit CellWriter`s "Enter" button numerous (1-5) times.
3. CellWriter disappears.

3) What version are you using? What Linux distribution?
version 1.3.5, Debian testing

installed versions of dependencies:
libatk1.0-0 (1.28.0-1), libbonobo2-0 (2.24.2-1), libc6 (2.10.2-2),
libcairo2 (1.8.8-2), libfontconfig1 (2.6.0-4.2), libfreetype6 (2.3.11-1),
libglib2.0-0 (2.22.3-1), libgnome2-0 (2.28.0-1), libgtk2.0-0 (2.18.3-1),
liborbit2 (1:2.14.17-2), libpango1.0-0 (1.26.1-1), libpopt0 (1.15-1),
libx11-6 (2:1.3.2-1), libxtst6 (2:1.0.3-1)

If the application expects RTL input, it will expect the letters in reverse
order. For these cases CW needs to send out the letters as if RTL mode was
off. A GUI switch for this would be ideal.

The font color is gray on black which look strange. The key buttons should
just be changed to always be shadowed white.

There is no way to easily select alphabetic scripts such as Shavian in the 
configuration area.

Applies in all versions of Cellwriter up to 1.3.4.

Using version 1.3.4-6 in Fedora 15 Alpha.

I'd like to use cellwriter on a netbook running Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric). 
Training cellwriter and using it works great, but cellwriter seems to loose the 
training data (partly?) on each reboot.I tried to check where cw saves the 
training data to backup it manually, but without success. There's a 
subdirectory .cellwriter under /home/username, but it seems that it doesn't 
hold the training data of the specific user.

According to the man page, --log-level and --log-file should allow logging, but 
the logfile is still empty even with --log-level=8.

Not sure how to reproduce. AFAIR on my netbook it never worked, so just 
installing cw on ubuntu oneiric should be sufficient to reproduce?

Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (Oneiric), Kernel 3.0.0.15 i386
cellwriter 1.3.4

There's a related bug entry in launchpad: 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cellwriter/+bug/766954

CJK languages are not usable with CellWriter, although in theory they
should work fine. Either a pretrained database of Kanji should be developed
or an alternate recognition pathway for these languages could also do the
trick. Either way, need a plan.

The word frequency file only supports ASCII currently. With UTF-8 support
in the 2.0 branch it should be possible to have foreign-language contexts.

Users may be willing to create keyboard layouts for their languages.
CellWriter should have a simple format for these (or use an existing one)
and an interface for loading them.

Hi,

When i quit from CellWriter, it gives

rename() failed to move tmp profile in place: Invalid cross-device link

message from console. I don't sure what it means, or is it cause any problems 
but i thought it would be good to report.


cellwriter version: 1.3.4
gtk version: 2.22.1
libXtst version: 1.2.0
used configure parameters: --with-x --without-gnome
os: Pardus 2011, x86-64
hardware: Toshiba A300D, Wacom Bamboo

Reported to Launchpad originally:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/cellwriter/+bug/179107

Docking was never fully implemented. Maximized windows should not be under
the CW window when it is docked.

I've just bought a Wacom Bamboo and tried CellWriter for handwriting
input. Its recognition is very good, but I get very strange behavior in
combination with my keyboard layout.

When I write something like foo<enter-button>bar, I get a result
like this:

oggbar

When you look at the keyboard layout (can be found at neo-layout.org),
you can tell, that the first part gets "typed" on the neo2 keyboard as
if one were typing on a us keyboard, but the second part (and all
following parts, too), after enter was clicked get typed correctly.

I am thoroughly baffled by this. It seems, that typing into the window
manually will cause CellWriter to become confused again.

I've created a log with xev of such a session. If you use vim, you
can :%foldc! to hide the motion events caused by my pen hovering over
xev, so that you may see clearer what's going on.

In that session I create the xev window and move it around a bit (the
first folded-away part), then I type "foo", "foo", "foo" with
CellWriter (it shows up as "oggfoofoo"), then i type uiae in the window
manually and type "foo", "foo", "foo" in CellWriter again (and it shows
up as "oggfoofoo" as well).

Mini keyboard does not reappear after a send if cell width <= 32 but can
still press buttons.

Keys that don't seem to work:

* Backspace
* PgUp/PgDn
* Arrow keys

Hi,

can you reduce more the size of the boxes in training mode, so I can really 
complain about using my pad in very tight areas because it will be very 
uncomfortable to draw every character?

Originally reported at:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cellwriter/+bug/290159

If you pen outside the area, XInput is disabled. This might occur, for
example, when you start a stroke and continue past the grid. The attached
patch constrains the output to the grid and removes the logic to disable
XInput.

Obviously this breaks CellWriter. The keycode generation code will need to
be rewritten!

More of a wishlist, no sure if its doable with Xorg or not but would it be 
possible to implement an option so that when cellwriter detects stylus 
movement it would appear and then after a short (user configurable) delay 
without usage would dock/hide again. Possibly just monitoring 
/dev/input/wacom or something similar?

I don't really speak any. Any volunteers for translating the interface strings?

Thread about this on my forum:
http://forum.risujin.org/index.php?topic=4.0

1) Please describe the problem.
When searching for TabletPC specific software, this package does not show.

2) What steps will reproduce the problem?
aptitude search TabletPC
aptitude search tabletpc
aptitude search tablet
aptitude search stylus

3) What version are you using? What Linux distribution?
Ubuntu 10

Embedding is implemented but must be tested with GDM. I don't know how to
do this though. Anyone? :|

1) Please describe the problem.

In order to report an issue concerning CellWriter I needed to determine
CellWriter's version but this was not a trivial task; it required going to
a terminal window and running apt-cache (part of Debian's packaging
maintenance system).

2) What steps will reproduce the problem?

Try to find the version of CellWriter.

3) What version are you using? What Linux distribution?

1.3.4, Debian testing/squeeze.

The user should be able to control docking from the status icon context menu.

It would benefit the creation of additional frontends to have a unified
library for recognition tasks with a simple API. The library should accept
only training/input stroke data and parameters from the frontend and return
recognition results.

It would be nice to have 3rd-level-shift or compose key combinations via
the on screen keyboard for entering foreign languages.

There are willing translators around but CW does not support translations
currently. The easiest way to do this is to integrate with gettext.

Hi,

I made a package for Pardus [1] and a patch for desktop file. It just adds 
Turkish GenericName and Comment for Turkish and some small improvements.

Could you add the patch to CellWriter?

Thanks in advance,
Anıl.


[1] http://paketler.pardus.org.tr/info/contrib/2009/devel/source/cellwriter.html

"It would be of great use if there were buttons representing such actions as:
Ctrl+a, Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+p, Ctrl+s, Shift+Del, and so on.

In the settings window there could be a choice of buttons,their "on 
button" description and the action of such button.

I think it would really help tablet PC users, as it's not as easy to use 
the right-click with a stylus."