Control Tablet PC Input Panel 1

[skumbay]

i need to control the Text Input Panel for a tablet pc. When a textbox control gets focus the Text Input panel needs to be activated and on loosing focus the panel is hidden. Wonder if anybody has accomplished the same ? TABTIP.EXE allows one to activate the panel but are there any parameters to turn it off ?

Any help appreciated

 

[Mike Lewis]

is this a Visual FoxPro question?

If not, you should post it in a forum that deals with the particular software or development tools you are working with.

Mike

__________________________________
Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Visual FoxPro articles, tips, training, consultancy

 

[skumbay]

Hi Mike

I am developing a vfp app for tablet pc to be used by field based staff. I have a form with a number of textbox controls. What I need to accomplish is when the textbox gets focus the Tablet Input is activated and when the focus is lost it is deactivated/hidden.

I found out about TABTIP.EXE which just activates the tablet input panel, but could not find anything to hide the same when the textbox lost focus.

Any help appreciated. Thanks

Shafique

 

[Mike Lewis]

Oh, I see. You're talking about the virtual keyboard (I think it used to be called the pen input panel).

It's been some years since I developed in VFP for a tablet. As far as I remember, I didn't need to do anything to make the input panel appear and disappear, but I might be mistaken. I don't remember having to explicitly call TABTIP.EXE.

Sorry I can't help. Perhahps someone else here has more recent experience than me.

Mike

__________________________________
Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Visual FoxPro articles, tips, training, consultancy

 

[skumbay]

Thanks Mike. Yes it was the virtual keyboard. My understanding was that the Input Panel would be exposed as an activex control. Have seen examples of the same in vb and c#. Will keep researching.

Thanks once again

Shafique

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Well, you can display something in Gotfocus and hide it at Lostfocus. But actually since Vista on a table using the pen when activating a textbox automatically opens input panels, it's up to the user to decide for hand writing recognition or a keyboard. You don't have to do anything, I think even in XP tablet edition this is automatic.

Some third party ActiveX may offer something better, but actually the hand writing recognition is very fine on windows already and the keyboard page of the input panel also offers word autocompletion etc.

There is nothing to do to get this, this comes from the OS automatically.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[skumbay]

Thanks Olaf, will look into configuring the Input Panel.

Regards

Shafique

 

[Olaf Doschke]

You don't even have to configure anything, the input panel will appear as it was used last time, either as keyboard or handwriting recvognition and you can always switch with the icons in the upper left corner.

Bye, Olaf.