tablet-pc

Help me convert the following VB/C++ code to C#

I have been trying to get the following VB code running in C# for hours now. I keep getting a Value does not fall within the expected range. exception on the CreateStroke() call. Also, here is the Microsoft documentation with a C++ version as well. Option Explicit Dim theInkCollector As InkCollector Private Sub Form_Load() Set theI...

windows xp tablet pc sdk on mono

I've been in development of an app that utilizes the windows tablet pc sdk. The only thing I really use from it is the InkPicture control. I'm wondering, the InkPicture control obviously isn't built into .NET, but it is a managed object, so would it work under mono? I'm downloading MOMA now, but I was just wondering if anyone knew alre...

Windows Tablet Event - disable Hold Through gesture

Hi All, I've been trying to implement a long-press feature on a Tablet PC (Windows 7). The problem is I don't get the MouseDown event when touching the tablet (touch and wait). I do get a MouseDown event only after I move my finger (dragging). And when I pick it up after a while, only then do I get both down and up events at the same ti...

Tablet PC/WPF textbox bug - any workarounds?

I've just logged this with Microsoft Connect, but I'm wondering whether anyone else has come across it and found a fix. Google's not showing much... Simple repro: Application has a WPF textbox with MaxLength set Use the TabletPC input panel to write more text than is allowed Press "insert" on the TabletPC panel and the application cr...

Stop the screen saver and hibernation temporarily in VB.Net

I have a very long running syncronization task that cannot be interrupted by the screen saver or aggressive power saving modes. I want to make a single api call to stop power save mode and then restore it once the task is done. The following code is peaced together from various other posts but it has no effect on XP's power management s...

How do you disable the XP/Vista pop-up on-screen keyboard for textboxes when running on a tablet computer?

On a tablet computer running Windows XP Tablet Edition, Vista or Windows 7 -- setting focus on a textbox triggers a small keyboard popup icon to be shown (unless the user already has the on-screen keyboard open or docked). In my application I've implemented my own on-screen keypad for certain fields and I want to disable the Windows on-s...

HTML APIs for touch devices?

What HTML APIs are available for touch screen devices (e.g. tablet PCs)? I notice that GMail's iPad interface (and other mobile interfaces) doesn't scroll down in a normal web browser (pretending to be an iPad via a user-agent hack). How can one access this API on a PC? I have a school full of tablet PCs that aren't wonderful in tablet...

Handwriting Controls similar to Journal

We are looking for a handwriting control with similar functionality as journal. We would use journal if I could find a way to embed it into a winform. We used Agilix Infinotes however it is buggy when you have 8+ pages of notes written up, not to mention very slow at converting to text. They have apparently stopped supporting infinote...

WPF on a iX104 Tablet PC - efficient enough?

Hi, I'm considering to use WPF for an application running on an iX104 (unfortunately I don't have one of those yet). Do you guys think that this combination would be efficient enough? Or is WPF just to slow for such a machine, so better stick with WinForms? Relevant specs of the iX104: Intel Pentium U2500 CoreDuo 2x 1.2 GHz 1 GB RAM, ...

Tablet pc handwriting recognition: can one program with it?

I'm thinking that it may be useful to be able to use handwriting recognition to write code. I can't seem to find evidence of people doing this. So, my questions are: is it possible, has someone done it, if so, what did they think? ...

Can I use handwriting personalization in custom .net app

Windows Vista and 7 both contain the ability to personlize the handwriting recognition. You can train the tablet to recognize your specific style. I know the personlization is used by the Native Windows Tablet Input Panel (TIP), the OS's handwriting control. Does the .NET SDK provide access to this personlization data so that my ....

How to detect if a windows app is Tablet PC "Aware"

Does anyone know how I can determine if an application is able to accept Tablet PC input? i.e. some kind of hittest or windows message that I can send it? thanks, H ...

Digitizer-Ink-Screen coordinates conversion

I would like to obtain digitizer coordinates using IRealTimeStylus and the final values should be "floating-point" screen coordinates. In other words since stylus is more accurate, I would like to get in-between pixels sub-coordinates too. From the device characteristics I can get conversion to Ink space and IInkRenderer can be used to c...

How can I display ink (that is already captured) as an image in an ASP.NET page?

Hi folks, I have a .NET windows application that collects ink using Microsoft.Ink from Microsoft Tablet PC SDK and stores it in a database. That's working fine. Now I need to display this ink as an image in an ASP.NET application. Note that I don't need to capture any strokes in the web application. Just display the already captured s...

How do you ignore the "flick" gestures in Windows?

I'm programming a tablet application that responds to drag gestures. It works great, except when you drag too quickly. Windows interprets it as a "flick," displays an icon on the screen, and does not report that it is a normal drag to my application. This happens for all of the cardinal directions. Is there a way I can turn this off so ...

My Visual Studio 2010 Menus are right aligned, how to fix that?

That's what my menus look like in Visual Studio 2010 since a couple of days: How to fix that without loosing all my Settings? With fixing I mean restore left aligned menus. No other application shows that strange behavior. ...

Will TelephonyManger.getDeviceId() return device id for Tablets like Galaxy Tab...???

I want to get the device id that will be unique for each Android device. I am presently developing for a Tablet device. Want to get unique device id and store the corresponding values... So, i want to know whether Tablet devices will return a value if i use TelephonyManager.getDeviceId()...???Or is there any other value that is unique ...

How to learn xInput and gesture programming in Linux (GTK+)

Ramble: I have been goggling for the past ~week trying to get information on tablet programming for Linux. I am currently a student tasked with making a tablet application (mobile but tablet is the preferred device). I am allowed to program with Linux however the class instruction is based on Microsoft XP tablet input "Inking." I howe...

Development Tablet Recommendations

Hello, After moving from Verizon to Sprint and buying several Android phones (EVO 4G), I became interested in developing Android applications. I have some programming experience (35+ years with various software firms (e.g. Cray Research, IBM, Oracle)) and would like to finally do some programming for myself. I'm looking for recommenda...