As for layout design, there is a layout designer built in but we just learned something important! Apparently we hid it a little too well. (Of course that’s why we beta test!)

I sent James a note about where we hid it. The ability to design your own custom layouts is a big part of what we think makes this program unique.

Also: “How accurate do you have to be when you change direction at the key you want?”

Not terribly. A curve can work as well as an angble. You can adjust this using the Advanced Options as well.

- “Is the software intelligent enough to work out the word you really wanted. ” Nope. What you type is what comes out.

- “Does it auto-predict words” No.

- “Do you really have to hesitate” No. You can get an entry through hesitation but that isn’t the only way the key is registered. It’s more about the direction change.

Ilium pointed out tome that InScribe was originally released in 1997 for the Handheld PC, far predating SHARK, now ShapeWriter.

How accurate do you have to be when you change direction at the key you want? Is the software intelligent enough to work out the word you really wanted (using rulesets, word ‘shape’ recognition and dictionary perhaps) if you miss the key? Does it auto-predict words and make suggestions and does it add a space in after the word? Do you really have to hesitate at the letter you want for it to register? If not, I can foresee this evolving into word gestures. Why should one need to stop exactly at the key when a word has a unique shape signature? Common words will become gestures if the program is intelligent enough you could just write the shape anywhere.

Regards
Steve.