Re: Movement

No - My home Tablet PC actually isn't responding to the pen(!), I'm halfway through setting up a desktop PC with separate tablet pad, and on my Tablet at work my Fitaly is still parked in bottom right corner, courtesy of some of the scripts already shown; my taskbar is stretched about 4 cm high, just enough for medium Fitaly plus a digitizer comfort margin; this is a Compaq TC1000, unlike all other Tablet PCs, and the pen doesn't work reliably at the screen edge.

To complete the picture, Tablet is vertically mounted landscape-wise six inches in front of my nose, and my right hand and arm sweep across Fitaly when I'm writing, while my left hand operates left and right click controls that happen to be on a USB trackball. So mostly I'm not actually tapping with the pen, just aiming. This is partly because I already have two more-or-less worn out pens here - so I figure they're not built for this workload, and a cockeyed grip I use doesn't help* - partly because I think it's a little more effective this way, and partly because the hand, wrist, forearm, and finger joint pains that prevent me using a normal QWERTY keyboard (it isn't carpal tunnel syndrome - I think it's "It hurts when I do that." "So, don't do that.") also are set off by intensive tapping. I change fingers on the trackball and it's mostly a "patting" hand movement...

I do quite a lot of writing with Fitaly (I used the Palm version before I had trouble with my hands), and speech recognition usually isn't appropriate for what I do, i.e. programming. So this fixed setup suits me pretty well, at a cost of some screen space. I also usually have several windows open, so on Tablet PC's usual limited screen resolution, an extra-sized taskbar is useful anyway.

The plan with the desktop tablet peripheral is to work from a couple of Post-It(TM) notes under film with the Fitaly layout drawn on them, so obviously the application depends on the Fitaly program on the screen never moving...

Other users have different ideas, and at least a couple of folks wanted to see Fitaly jump onto the screen when and where it's wanted for small amounts of text and then go away again, so I tried experiments. How you hold your Tablet if it /isn't/ deskbound is probably another factor. If you're writing a lot at once then you probably want to find one comfortable posture, but that isn't so important for writing a little at a time and occasionally.

I'm interested in your use of (semi) transparent Fitaly by means of AutoHotkey. The WinWarden script also offers a "ghost" option where pointer actions don't apply to the transparent program - I don't know if that's a standard AHk facility or clever work by the script - and a ghost Fitaly, present and semi-visible but not doing anything until activated (say by hovering the stylus over it, or even by bringing the stylus in range on it - I want to use Fitaly to indicate that I want to use Fitaly), could be attractive: I'm using the taskbar to keep Fitaly and applications out of each other's space. A phantom Fitaly that basically you ignore until you conjure it to be "real". (Possibly with performance impact.)

Another option of WinWarden is to cut pieces of a window off the screen - so Fitaly could be reduced to its title bar or option control strip until wanted. Another that I just thought of: Fitaly normally hides, activates not on dead taskbar space, but on top of the task buttons when you tap to make Fitaly the foreground program. (And automatically un-foregrounds itself at once so that it can send to your other application.) You don't want task buttons while you're writing. Now portrait looks attractive. And so on...