Transcriber in Panel

[Marc Ambrosius]

Hi,

our customer wants two input methods for an application:
some soft key buttons and hand writing recognition in a
panel.

Is there an oportunity to get transcriber or something
similar working in a part of the screen rather than on the
full screen, so the user could also use the buttons?

Is it possible to activate and deactivate transcriber
programmatically?

Thanks in advance.

Marc

 

[Alex Feinman [MVP]]

Hi,

our customer wants two input methods for an application:
some soft key buttons and hand writing recognition in a
panel.

Is there an oportunity to get transcriber or something
similar working in a part of the screen rather than on the
full screen, so the user could also use the buttons?

I don't believe it's possible

Is it possible to activate and deactivate transcriber
programmatically?

You can switch the input methods by calling SipSetCurrentIM(CLSID *)
For a sample see http://www.alexfeinman.com/download.asp?doc=SIPDemo.zip

You can expect the GUID of transcriber to stay the same, so you don't have
to enumerate the registry every time

 

[Marc Ambrosius]

Alex,

thanks for your sample.
As we are working on Windows CE 4.2, not Pocket PC, your
sample only lists the different variants of the input
panel, no transcriber or other handwriting methods, though
transcriber is installed on my device.

Does anyone know of a way to activate/deactivate
transcriber? I a user hits a button, we don't want to see
the coloured line.

Thanks,

Marc

 

[Guest]

Correct me if I am wrong but,
Transcriber only gives you a line on tap and drag, where on a button you
just tap.

Am I missing something?

Clayton Meisman

 

[Marc Ambrosius]

You are absolutely right. But sometimes you want to tap a
button and move the pen just a bit on the screen so that
the system interpretates it as if you wanted to drag.

Apart from that the transciber shows an interesting
behaviour: If a button has the focus (let's say the button
increases the number in a TextBox), I can write whatever I
want on my Touchscreen (ans whereever I want), I see it as
a coloured line, but the button event is executed anyway
(the number in the TextBox increased).

So what I am looking for is a panel with handwriting
recognition ability, which only accepts what is written
inside the region of the panel and puts it into some
control. If such a control does not exist, an API call to
activate/deactivate transciber would be helpfull.

Thanks in advance

Marc