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Handwriting Recognition on DS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the one-step-closer-to-pda dept.

JamesO writes "Zi Corporation has announced a licensing agreement with Nintendo that will allow developers to make use of handwriting recognition. PDAs have been offering handwriting recognition for some time and with the DS's touch screen it seemed inevitable that the console would eventually gain handwriting recognition technology. An agreement between Zi Corporation and Nintendo means that DS developers will be able to utilise Zi Decuma handwriting recognition technology when creating software for the handheld."

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  1. Re:SDK by RevAaron · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can code in Python for Windows CE 3.0+ (2.11+ maybe?), and specifically Pocket PC 2000, 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, 2003 SE and presumably 2005. There is a subset of Python, called Pippy, available for Palm OS. The WinCE port is pretty much a full port of Python; Pippy is very much stripped down. There are also the Zaurus Linux PDAs, which can run Python, though it's not as useful for writing full-on apps as it is on Pocket PC, at least within the Qtopia GUI last time I checked.

    Perl too on PocketPC/WinCE; there's even Perl/Tk support. Works pretty well.

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    Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
  2. Re:SDK by Paladine97 · · Score: 5, Informative

    A pretty basic SDK is provided. C and C++ are your options. Feel free to compile Python for it!

    See www.dsdev.org for all the DS development info you need.