Context-Enabled Form Sample
This sample shows some of the form features available on the Tablet PC.
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Demonstrates
One of the most powerful uses of Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 is for form-related activities. In most cases, you can do this without coding. The Context Tagging Tool provided with the Tablet PC Platform SDK enables you to specify field masks for use with any form-based application, without changing the source code. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 searches for a specially-formatted XML file when it loads an executable file. This XML file can contain context-sensitive masks or hints for the built-in Tablet Input Panel.
This sample illustrates the context-sensitive capabilities of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 explicitly in code. It shows values of the Factoid type and enables them to be selected. The code disallows the Word List factoid, which cannot be programmatically used with the PenInputPanel type (although it can be used with the Context Tagging Tool). When a user selects a factoid value, the PenInputPanel is used together with a standard TextBox control to demonstrate the context tagging.
This sample requires that the following be installed:
Visual Studio
Tablet PC Platform SDK
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005