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Hi. I did the port initially for Qtopia / Zaurus. I'm glad to see that somebody else found it useful. I saw a few questions about how it compares to other input methods, regarding speed and such. What I found was that you may be able to input text faster with an on-screen keyboard, but the real advantage to the QS idea is that once you become familiar with the strokes, you can "touch-write" without having to look at the input area. With an on-screen keyboard, you're always looking at the screen to make sure you're hitting the right key. One thing that hindered speed with QwikScript was trying to get the accuracy down. I think if you took a cue from some of the more modern input methods and combined QS with a dictionary to auto-correct for accuracy, you would have a very useable and fast "eyes-free" input method. I love the newer input methods like Swype on the android that intelligenly assist you, but I haven't found anything comparable to QwikScript that will let you write while your eyes are focused somewhere else. So I hope the idea lives on. These days everything is based on finger-touch, and styluses have mostly gone out of style, but I would still like to have something better that could be used without looking.

Last edited by dmattp; 2011-06-05 at 01:19.