Building Tablet PC Applications (Pro-Developer)

Rob Jarrett, Microsoft Press

ISBN:0735617236, Edition: , 2002-10-25

Price: $59.99

Table of Contents

• Cover Page
  • LOC Page
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
  • Rob and Philip Thank . . .
  • Rob Thanks . . .
  • Philip Thanks . . .
• Introduction
  • A Beautiful Day
  • Chapter Overviews
  • Some Final Thoughts
• Part I - The Tablet PC and Its Applications
  • Chapter 1 - Tablet Computing Comes of Age
    • What Makes a Tablet Computer
    • A Brief History of Tablet Computing
    • The Microsoft Tablet PC
    • Summary
  • Chapter 2 - Designing Tablet PC Applications
    • User Research
    • Of Mice and Pen
    • Digitizer Technology
    • Thinking in Ink
    • Summary
• Part II - The Tablet PC Platform SDK
  • Chapter 3 - Introduction to the Tablet PC Platform SDK
    • A Sort of Homecoming
    • Installing the Tablet PC Platform SDK
    • Overview of the Managed API
    • Ink Control Comparison with Managed API
    • Welcome to the Great Adventure
  • Chapter 4 - Tablet PC Platform SDK: Tablet Input
    • Capturing Input from the Pen
    • Anatomy of the Tablet PC's Tablet Input Subsystem
    • Platform SDK Support for Tablet Input
    • Getting Introspective
    • Best Practices for InkCollector and InkOverlay
    • Summary
  • Chapter 5 - Tablet PC Platform SDK: Ink Data Management, Part I
    • Ink and Stroke Objects
    • Rendering Digital Ink
    • Summary
  • Chapter 6 - Tablet PC Platform SDK: Ink Data Management, Part II
    • Stroke Geometry
    • Targeting and Hit-Testing Ink Strokes
    • Splitting and Trimming Ink
    • Serialization, the Clipboard, and Drag and Drop
    • Summary
  • Chapter 7 - Tablet PC Platform SDK: Ink Recognition
    • Recognizer Architecture
    • Performing Simple Recognition
    • Using the Recognition Classes
    • Summary
  • Chapter 8 - Ink Controls
    • Achtung Baby
    • InkEdit
    • InkPicture
    • Summary
• Part III - Advanced Tablet PC Topics
  • Chapter 9 - Updating Existing Applications
    • Even Better than the Real Thing
    • Technical Considerations
    • InkPadJunior
    • Summary
• Part IV - Appendixes
  • Appendix A
    • The InkInputPanel Class
    • The InkControl and InkControl2 Classes
    • The FormatInkDlg Class
    • The InkEx Class
    • The RenderEx Class
    • The LassoUI Class
    • The CopyAsTextDlg Class
  • Appendix B
    • Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Hardware Requirements
• About the Authors