lechuan Posted December 16, 2014 at 07:47 PM Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 at 07:47 PM Does anyone know if it's possible to write Chinese characters on Mac OS (Mavericks) using only the Mouse? I'm using a Mac Mini, and don't have a trackpad. I occasionally have to enter characters that I don't know the pronunciation for, so the Pinyin IME won't cut it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikelove Posted December 16, 2014 at 08:40 PM Report Share Posted December 16, 2014 at 08:40 PM Looks like Baidu IME has a Mac version - that should support mouse handwriting. EDIT: no, seems like it doesn't. (mods feel free to delete this, sorry) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
character Posted December 17, 2014 at 01:37 AM Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 at 01:37 AM This http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/osx7.html says that OS X supports Wubi, in case that's an option. Wenlin has handwriting recognition, but it's not very friendly compared with Pleco (speaking of which, you could just have Pleco recognize the character and you could then copy/paste/send that to your Mac somehow). The standalone magic trackpad is a nice piece of kit, FWIW, and lets one perform gestures as well as 'mousing' and handwriting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lechuan Posted December 17, 2014 at 01:46 AM Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 at 01:46 AM Thanks @character and @mikelove. Yeah, at home I use the trackpad on my macbook, but at work, where I use a Mac Mini, I usually just write in Pleco on my iPad, then cut-and-paste. Still surprised Apple doesn't support something like this, Windows has had it for years. Or I guess they figure if people want it badly enough, they'll just get a Magic Trackpad. Thanks for the trackpad suggestion, I always wondering why one would bother getting one for a desktop, now I know why! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
character Posted December 17, 2014 at 08:37 AM Report Share Posted December 17, 2014 at 08:37 AM Still surprised Apple doesn't support something like this, Windows has had it for years. Or I guess they figure if people want it badly enough, they'll just get a Magic Trackpad.Apple sells a lot more laptops than desktops, and the solution you describe means buying more Apple hardware, so it's a good solution from their point of view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedwards Posted December 18, 2014 at 05:57 PM Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 at 05:57 PM You might just buying a small tablet, monoprice has them for about $25 and it should work well. http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=108&cp_id=10841&cs_id=1084101&p_id=5551&seq=1&format=2 I've got a larger version and it's quite good. I see, misunderstood there, but still if you find a good IME that takes the hand writing, a proper tablet is much more likely to get the input accepted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members vesperate Posted August 31, 2015 at 01:49 PM New Members Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 at 01:49 PM Still surprised Apple doesn't support something like this, Windows has had it for years. Or I guess they figure if people want it badly enough, they'll just get a Magic Trackpad. Maybe this has to do with the fact that Windows handwriting recognition with mouse is so bad! It works for the 100 most common characters but for others sometimes you can try 20 times and it won't find what you wrote. Even when taking time to do each stroke. Maybe it's windows fault, but maybe it's just difficult technology to implement for a mouse. Trackpad drawing gives cleaner strokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelley Posted August 31, 2015 at 05:11 PM Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 at 05:11 PM For the rare occasion when i use handwriting with my desk PC, with Wenlin mostly, I use a pen and tablet. I have a wacom tablet. Have to say for practising writing characters it does give a good approximation to pen and paper. This is a picture of one very similar to mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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