There are three main parts to the TealScript program, which are accessible through the buttons on the bottom of the main menu: train a profile, test a profile, and edit a profile. You can also view statistics on your handwriting recognition by selecting the Statistics button. Although TealScript allows you to have more than one handwriting recognition profile loaded at a time, I recommend only using the default one as they tend to take up a lot of memory (though feel free to rename it to something more personal).

Let's look at each part of the program in more detail.

Training a profile
The first thing you should do when you get TealScript is train it to recognize your handwriting. To do this, simply select the Train Profile button from the main menu, and pick the character set you want to train. I recommend you start with Alphabet, though you will probably want to at least train the Numbers as well.

Training your profile is very easy. TealScript will present you with a sentence (the ever popular "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" which uses every letter of the alphabet). As you write each letter, it updates the pattern matches based on how you draw them, as shown in Figure B. For each letter, it provides you with a suggested pattern (in the Next box), although you are free to use any of the patterns for that letter that are in your profile. After you have written the first letter, it also shows you the pattern you actually drew (in the Last box), and the resulting match pattern which is then stored in your profile (in the Result box).

FIGURE B

Use this screen to train TealScript to better recognize your personal handwriting.

When you have finished training, TealScript should return you to the main menu. After training, I recommend that you test your profile by selecting the Test Profile button.

Testing your profile
The Test Profile dialog, as shown in Figure C, allows you to test TealScript's recognition of certain characters, and update your profile with additional patterns that it may not recognize even after training. To test your profile, simply start writing characters in the given text area. After you write each letter, the pattern you drew will be displayed in the Current box, and the stored pattern that TealScript matched it to will be displayed in the Match box, along with the match percentage (100% is a perfect match). If it doesn't find a match for what you drew, it will leave the match box blank.

FIGURE C

Use this dialog to test your profile and update problem characters.

After you have tested your profile a bit, you may find that for particular characters TealScript either finds no match, or matches what you write to a completely different character. When this happens, you can select the Add Last button to add the most recent pattern you drew to your profile.

When you do this, a dialog box will pop up asking you to specify which character your pattern is supposed to match, and in which modes you want that pattern to be active, as shown in Figure D.