Jeff Cours wrote: > Howdy -- > > I use OO 2.1 Writer to take notes in class. I'm running it on a Windows > Tablet PC. I would really like the the ability to pop out the stylus > and draw a diagram into the middle of my notes. I currently have > ctrl-shift-D bound to insert a frame where I can use the drawing tools > to create a diagram, but the drawing tools are too cumbersome to keep up > with a professor writing on the board full blast. Even the freehand > drawing tool has to take time to find the endpoints and to all the nifty > things that let you grab it and move it around, by which time the prof's > moved on to the next thing. > > What I really want is something similar to Word's "insert ink comment": > a very fast thread that just grabs the mouse position, as long as the > button's down, and throws the bits into the frame as a bitmap drawing. > Ideally, it should be fast enough to capture written words, though I > don't care at all if it can do OCR. It would also be wonderful if it > supported the ability to erase (preferably by letting me use the > "eraser" end of the stylus, as some of the tablet-aware software does). > > Does anyone know of such a feature, or an extension that might provide > that feature?
As you are using Windows you could insert an OLE object with MSPaint. It should be possible to create a macro that inserts such an object and by assigning it to a button or shortcut you can insert it pretty fast. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
