Did you chekc sophie because may be I'm wrong but the copy paste could paste morph?
On Aug 4, 2011, at 5:18 PM, Gary Chambers wrote: > Bill, > > no prob. > For OmniPage we are using FFI with the SDK dlls, the others essentially > command line (via FFI for CreateProcess on Win32 etc) as quickest to do for > evaluation purposes. > > For app comms, at present just a serious abuse of the clipboard for now. We > can add Socket modules etc. as required ;-) > > As a desire, it would be nice if the clipboard plugin could do non-text types > (Forms for example)... then we won't have to do platform specifc stuff when > the need arises (just pasting plain-text/XML at the moment). > > One amusement is our clipboard "processor" can look out for certain keyword > structures for a bi-directional interface. The app can actually work nicely > with Notepad, say! (manually copy command to retrive xml from Notepad then > clipboard text replaced with the requested XMl from our app... then paste in). > > We chose the abused clipboard route as being the simplest form of > inter-process communications for demonstration purposes. > > Regards, Gary > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Schwab,Wilhelm K > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:54 PM > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Polymorph improvements > > Gary, > > No apologies, please :) It's nice to Pharo being used for things like this. > How are you connecting to the OCR engines and VB app? If those questions are > too probing, then pretend I didn't ask. > > Bill > > > > From: [email protected] > [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Chambers > [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 10:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Polymorph improvements > > Hi Lorenzo, > > I can't say too much at present but is basically a commercial application for > a client for handling postal packages that slip through the rest of their > automated processes. > > So, using a handheld scanner (like MBagger) it gets a scan of the address > label, OCRs it and extracts relevant information that can be passed on to > their existing (VB) application, along with, say weight from electronic > scales etc. > > Currently we are trialling various 3rd party OCR engines: Abbyy, OmniPage and > Tesseract (open source). > > Of course, I'm making it vastly configurable so there will many potential > uses... > > Sorry if you were actually think that the OCR itself was done by us in > Smalltalk ;-) > > Regards, Gary > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Lorenzo Schiavina > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:19 AM > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Polymorph improvements > > Hi Gary, > > I have seen from your screenshots that you are working on OCR projecr; can > you give my some information about it? > > Thanks > > Lorenzo > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gary Chambers > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 5:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Polymorph improvements > > Screenshot of part of project: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/12018791@N06/6001799235/in/photostream > > Regards, Gary > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gary Chambers > To: Pharo Development > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 4:40 PM > Subject: [Pharo-project] Polymorph improvements > > Hi all. > > I've added an issue with some tweaks/improvements to a few Polymorph classes. > > http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=4590 > > Groupboxes can now have dynamic content (model/getContentSelector based). > Abaility to create icon lists via builder/TEasilyThemed. > Expander labels now LabelMorphs rather than TextMorphs (can therefore appear > as disabled) > IncrementalSliderMorphs now honour minWidth/minHeight in layouts > Panel morphs allow event based mouse over handling (call to super was > missing). > Label groups allow for nil labels (equates to empty string) > > Regards, Gary
