Ive been looking for posts as interesting as yours for a while. It is nice to know you can find quality on the web. I've bookmarked your blog and hope you will continue posting such intersting posts

Hi,

I followed up the procedure however even in step 1. I could not find the MyTestForm on the LiveScribe Desktop Manager.

Please advise me.

HI
looks very interesting!
bookmarked your blog.
john brightman

How about:

private void OnChanged(object source, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
BackgroundWorker barInvoker = new BackgroundWorker();
barInvoker.DoWork += delegate
{
Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
FileChanged(e.FullPath, e.Name);
};
barInvoker.RunWorkerAsync();
}

HI
looks very interesting!
bookmarked your blog.
john brightman

Hi,

I've also been using a custom docking client like yours, but it's not working anymore since LD v1.6.

when InitializeDeviceListening() is called I get a PenUndocked event (even if the pen was docked), and afterwards I do not get any more events (nither PenDocked or PenUndocked). So my docking client isn't working anymore.

Can you test if you're experiencing similar issues ?
If your client is working properly, can you please post/send me your code so that I can compare?

Thanks in advance,

Michel

Thanks for this intro. That was exactly what I needed to get started with the pen.

I used what you found (which I never would have figured out) and got it to work part way. Two things
1) Choose no compression when you rezip
2) Use the EPS to regenerated the PNG ( I used adobe 8)
I am going to try and make something more interesting. My first try I just removed a box and it worked but I have not yet figured out how to alter the image on the screen in livescribe. I think I just need to find the PNG that stores the image as displayed.

This is great post. Did you ever get it to print. I am dying to make my own custom forms

To Gab:

You need to copy the tools.jar file to the proper directory

Since this is C#, do you think that the AFD parser is able to run without win32-specific APIs? ie, can I run it with Mono on my Mac?

Poking around, I think that the Mac side has native shared libraries with similar APIs. I will try to poke more deeply in the next couple days, but I do like the idea of a potential platform-agnostic AFD parser.

Hahaha! I have a sense of deja-vu...

One of the Logitech Anoto pens stored an XML file, which looked interesting, except it only had the metadata in a human readable format.

But there was this big block of ASCII bytes. It had a length tag that was longer than the block. And the block looked like MIME. 30 seconds in Python, de-MIMEd. But length doesn't match. The binary data is too short. I think it was gzipped, but I may be wrong. The first attempt worked, and...

XML! Of the strokes!

So an XML file containing MIMEd compressed XML in the middle. How perverse.

I can't wait to get in to the office where my Mac is and try to poke at the AFD file. Thank you for your poking. I just "cross-graded" from a Nokia SU-1B Bluetooth Anoto pen to the Livescribe. I want to get feature parity now...

Hi...
I recently started playing around with Eclipse and Livescribe development, but every time I try to deploy the penlet I get the following error:

C:\Eclipse\plugins\com.livescribe.sdk.lib_0.8.8\ant\build-common.xml:139: Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK.
It is currently set to "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6"

Can you help me, please?

Hi Anthony,
My name is Mark from Smartpen here in Australia. We distribute the Livescribe pens. We've had a couple of our customers also start tinkering with the Livescribe development platform.

I was wondering whether you could share any additional thoughts/findings on the dev platform as I want to share this with our Australian customers via our blog.

cheers

So if the file is in use such that there is a write lock on it would the writeable flag indicate that? Or is that field just showing how that general file attribute is set?

I'm glad you have found your way to that inter-web thing.