Deferred ink recognition / number of apps running

Jeff Lee (shipbrk@gate.net)
Wed, 09 Aug 1995 13:38:02 -0400

At 10:42 AM 8/9/95 -0500, "James W. Barr" <jbarr@Mars.mcs.com> wrote:

(on deferred ink recognition)

>Again, this is a fairly glaring ommission. There is the capability of
>doing this in the "events" screen of the date book, and there may be one
>other app that does this, but NOT in notebook.

I think this is probably done so that the ink recognition routines don't
have to choose between text which should be converted, and legitimate
drawings which should be left "as is" on the sketch pages...

Not that I'm defending it, mind you... before I got Graffiti, I tended to
get quite frustrated when I'd entered an entire page of what I thought was
text, only to have it turn out to be a drawing which I then had to erase
and enter all over again.

Using expert+ mode, it's annoying to run the Notebook, start entering
text, and *then* remember to set the input mode to text, but I suppose
other than keeping Notebook as an icon when it's not in use, there's no
way around it. Which reminds me:

>I keep iconized Notebook for
>note-taking in meetings, Datebook for keeping track of appointments,
>GeoCalc just to show people that I have a hand-held spreadsheet (It's
>really too slow on the Zoomer ;-), and Pyramid for those times that
>require diversion.

Every time I try to run more than three apps, it tells me there's too
much activity... How do you get it to keep that many programs running
at once? I've got my maxTotalHeapSpace set to 45000 (but then again,
I notice in the annotated GEOS.INI that maxTotalHeapSpace is a *signed*
integer, so perhaps there's my problem).

Going back to preserving modes if an app is exited, why is it that the
Address Book will remember the page you were viewing when you last
exited, and whether you had it on the Address or Sketch tab, but doesn't
preserve the state of the "Show Empty Fields" option?
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