33.5.1 Using CellWriter
With CellWriter, you can write characters into a grid of cells—the writing is instantly
recognized on a character basis. After you have nished writing, you can send the input
to the currently focused application. Before you can use CellWriter for gesture recogni-
tion, the application needs to be trained to recognize your handwriting: You need to
train each character of a certain map of keys (untrained characters are not activated and
thus cannot be used).
Procedure 33.1
Training CellWriter
1
Start CellWriter from the main menu or with cellwriter from the command
line. On the rst start, CellWriter automatically starts in the training mode. In
training mode it shows a set of characters of the currently chosen key map.
2
Enter the gesture you would like to use for a character into the respective charac-
ter's cell. With the rst input, the background changes its color to white, whereas
the character itself is shown in light grey. Repeat the gesture multiple times until
the character changes its color to black. Untrained characters are shown on a
light grey or brown background (depending on the desktop's color scheme).
3
Repeat this step until you have trained CellWriter for all characters you need.
4
If you want to train CellWriter for another language, click the Setup button and
select a language from the Languages tab. Close the conguration dialog. Click
the Train button and select the key map from the drop-down box at the bottom
right corner of the CellWriter window. Now repeat your training for the new
map of keys.
5
After having nished the training for the map of keys, click the Train button to
switch to the normal mode.
In the normal mode, the CellWriter windows shows a couple of empty cells in which
to enter the gestures. The characters are not sent to another application until you click
the Enter button, so you can correct or delete characters before you use them as input.
Characters that have been recognized with a low degree of condence will appear
highlighted. To correct your input, use the context menu that appears on right-clicking
a cell. To delete a character, either use your pen's eraser, or middle-click with the mouse
to clear the cell. After nishing your input in CellWriter, dene which application
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