Housekeeping item:  I have taken down one of my most popular pages – “Links for LiveScribe Developers”.  The page was getting out dated and I don’t plan to keep it up to date.  I think the information there is not that useful given its age now.  I suspect it was visited a lot based on […]

This post is a rework of my response to this thread in the LiveScribe forums. When developing an app, I have a frequent (maybe a little *too* frequent in some cases) edit/compile/deploy/start-app/test cycle.  The nav cross can be used to start an app.  You double tap on the cross, then tap the down and right […]

Unit tests are of course really useful to make sure your code works and continues to work. I use JUnit for writing unit tests, but if you throw them into your ‘src’ directory, they get bundled into the penlet itself!  Not very desirable. Having a quick look at the ant script invoked to deploy a […]

A common thing for a LiveScribe pen penlet (pen application) to do is require the user to draw a button that they can later tap on.  Its sort of funky in a way – making the printed page “active”.  The standard “piano” application is one example of this (tap notes to play a tune) and […]

This is a quick post on timers in a LiveScribe pen penlet (pen application).  I had asked in the forums about how to track the pen position as it moved across the page.  The following is my take on the response I got. Sample Code In this case, I am going to start with code […]

A common question that comes up on the forum is how to wait for user input.  The answer is Penlets don’t wait for more input – they react to events. (The following post is a massaged version of this thread on the forums.) Consider a simple penlet where you want to ask the user to […]