PowerBuilder 10.2 supports the Tablet PC platform and introduces two controls, InkEdit and InkPicture. They provide the ability to capture ink input from users of Tablet PCs.

The InkEdit control captures and recognizes handwriting and optionally converts it to text. The InkPicture control captures signatures, drawings, and other annotations that do not need to be recognized as text. You can place a background image in an InkPicture control, and capture and save a user's annotations to the picture.

You can insert InkEdit and InkPicture controls in the Window painter and Visual User Object painter, and InkPicture controls in the DataWindow painter. You can also use an InkEdit edit style in the DataWindow painter.

The ink controls are fully functional on Tablet PCs. On other computers, the InkEdit control behaves like a multiline edit control, and InkEdit columns behave like columns with the Edit edit style. If the Microsoft Tablet PC Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.7 is installed on the computer, InkPicture controls can accept ink input from the mouse.

For more information

For more information, see "Using InkEdit controls in PowerBuilder" and "Using InkPicture controls in PowerBuilder", and the Tablet PC sample on the CodeXchange Web site at http://powerbuilder.codexchange.sybase.com.

For more information about ink controls and the Tablet PC, and to download the Tablet PC SDK, go to the Microsoft Tablet PC Web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/tabletpc.asp .