Is there a possibility of a Mac OS X version of Compendium, then? The
version I have requires too much memory or too much something to run
under Virtual PC on my Mac. MySQL is available for Mac's, though, as is
Java, and OS X runs in a Unix environment.

Bill Pardee
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 09:51 AM, Simon Buckingham Shum wrote:

> At 06:28 11/03/2003 -0800, Bill Pardee wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Has anyone experimented with a Tablet PC for Dialog Mapping
> facilitation, using Questmap or Compendium? I would guess its slower
> than a skilled typist, but might be more natural and easier for a
> newbie. But I havent seen it tried, or even used one of the Tablet > PCs.
>
>
> Hi Bill (sorry for the timelapse since your orig post!)
>
> Yes, pen-input and manipulation in Compendium is a very natural action
> in many respects and often at least as quick as using a mouse:
> arguably a greater sense of direct manipulation of nodes; dragging
> nodes from the toolbar; many of the actions such as assigning
> Compendium Tags, and copying/pasting can be done from the toolbar
> buttons.
>
> The key limitation for Compendium at present is that node labels
> cannot currently accept text input from the Tablet PC Input Panel,
> because the labels aren't actually 'text objects', but painted objects
> (historical accident!). You have to open the node and enter/edit the
> label in the detail window. At some point we will make labels proper
> text fields.
>
> Another annoyance is that right dragging (as you do when scrolling the
> canvas by right dragging in white space) is a pain. However, I've just
> requested that in the next version we can Cntrl-drag so that pen users
> can do this without trouble.
>
> Obviously you also lose a bit of screen space with the Tablet PC Input
> Panel.
>
> (Preview news on the next release: we have moved from Access as the
> database, to MySQL, finally enabling multiplatform Compendium, and
> more robust database storage)
>
> Simon
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