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


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