Working with Ink Pictures

[Beau]

I am developing a form aand would like the user to be able to include a
quick hand drawn sketch when the form is submitted. Does anyone have any
experience with the INK PICTURE control. What hardware will users have to
have to use this control. Can they just use a stylus and pad devise or do
the need a full blown Tablet PC?

If anyone is using this control, I sure could use some advice.

 

[Franck Dauché]

Hi,

This is going to be a partial response only, but, based on my experience,
Tablet PC work great for that...

Franck Dauché

 

[Beau]

Frank,

I am trying to allow a fairly large numberr of users to be able to add
sketches to the report, and I don't want to have to spring for all new
laptops to accomplish this. I don't know that much about Tablet PC but it
appears that this is different from the regular pen type input devise that
can be used instead of a mouse. Is that right?

 

[Franck Dauché]

Hi Beau,

To my knowledge, you will need a Tablet PC to enjoy the full inking support.

Regards,

Franck Dauché

 

[hpv]

Hello Beau,

you don't have to use an Ink Picture Control to enable users including a
sketch. The only thing you'll need is the freehand drawing Control shipping
with InfoPath 2003. 3 months ago, I wanted to include an ink Picture Control
to serialize the strokes to the ink Serialized format and convert it later
to ASCII-Text. But this control wasn't shown in the list of user Controls to
Import in InfoPath. I'm developing Tablet PC applications in VS.Net and so I
wondered, why I couldn't choose the controls from the Tablet PC SDK 1.7. If
you use the InkPicture Control, also no Tablet PC users could use this
control. The only condition for non Tablet Users is an installed Microsoft
Tablet PC SDK or the Microsoft.ink.dll. I'll hope this answer hits your
question.

Good luck

Hans-Peter Verheyden
Software Development / Trainings

 

[Franck Dauché]

Great alternative hpv! Thank you for the tip...

Franck Dauché