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Ink Controls
There are two Ink controls that are included in the Tablet PC Platform SDK. They allow us to quickly integrate pen and ink functions into a new or existing application. The controls can be easily dragged onto forms in a language that supports forms-based software development, such as VB. If you remember the section earlier in this chapter, there are ActiveX Ink controls and managed Ink controls. We use these in Chapter 13, Introduction to Ink-Enabled Applications.
The following controls are available for us to use:
InkEdit: This control is an extension of the common RichEdit control and captures and can also convert ink into text. This is the quickest way to add conversion to an application.
InkPicture: This control is used to display or capture ink over existing images.
Tablet PC Speech
When dealing with Tablet PC development, it is quite obvious that we need to take advantage of ink for data entry. But, it is definitely not the only one. As the Tablet PC was created with portability in mind in which a keyboard is not always readily available, speech also plays an important role in software development. We are going to delve into the basics of the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) SDK beginning in Chapter 21, Speech Input with SAPI. Along the same lines, we are also going to take advantage of Microsoft Agent (Chapters 19 and 20, Getting Started with Microsoft Agent and Advanced Microsoft Agent, respectively) technologies for a couple of example projects. We go over more of each of them as we encounter them.
In this chapter, we have installed the Tablet PC SDK and taken a quick glance at some of its features. In the remaining chapters, we actually look at the more involved aspects of the development tool as we create a Tablet PC-specific application in each of them.
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