Hi,

thank you for this amazing tool. I just started a few days ago and loved it from day one, already recommended it to all other serious students i have met.

I have read a lot of the forum so this shouldn't be a double post: Is it a possibility that there would be more attention on the stroke positions or at least an option for this, like an extra slider besides the ones for stroke recognition and stroke order? For example now Skritter will say you are right when you write 刀 in stead of 力， or if the dots in 办 are in the wrong place. Of course a lot depends on your own honesty towards yourself, but if you write a character fast, you often don't notice you were wrong.

I read in another post that you were working on having the input more component based, with the parts only sliding into place after you finished the whole radical or whatever. Maybe this is a little in the same direction. I would love btw to see a feature like this especially like some others suggested with some more explanation about the character and it's components.

Is the program now supposed to accept all tones of a character (if it has multiple)? this wasn't clear from the other posts. I agree with you that two succeeding third tones should only be accepted as third tones, this is a speech rule not a writing rule.

It's hard to be that picky about those tiny (to the computer) differences in special cases, but still not be overly strict in general. It's possible that in the future, we'll add some special logic to disambiguate 力 vs. 刀, 己 vs. 已 vs. 巳, etc., but for now it's out of reach. A limitation of the technology, so to speak.

If we do add something like that, you probably won't need a slider for it, since it'll be built into each component/radical's special recognition rules.

I'm really excited to do the component-based writing, oh yes. I'm probably more excited than the sharpest knife ever.

Yes, it's intended to accept any of multiple tones, but it's a bit broken now in that it doesn't match the tones to the right syllables when saying them. It's also not too smart about character vs. word pinyin/tones. That's all better in the vaunted new system.