A Tutorial on Tablet PC Simon Fraser University CMPT 354 Fall 2007
Tablet PC Overview Agenda Tablet PC Development Tablet PC Resources A Tutorial on Tablet PC 2/22
Tablet PC Overview
What is Tablet PC? A fully-functional computer running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, a superset of Windows XP Professional Geared for pen-enabled, handwriting-enabled, and speechenabled applications A highly mobile computer that enables new usage scenarios A powerful platform enabling a new generation of business applications Windows XP SP2 Tablet PC Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 Tablet PC Components 2005 A Tutorial on Tablet PC 4/22
Features Overview - Software Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 adds the following features to Windows XP Professional Pen input Ink controls Gesture recognition engine and APIs Handwriting and speech recognition engines Some useful applications, such as Windows Journal, Sticky Notes A Tutorial on Tablet PC 5/22
Features Overview - Hardware All Tablet PC devices will include the following hardware attributes Electromagnetic digitizer and pen Optimized power states Screen rotation support Free of old hardware Hardware buttons for logging on to Windows and doing additional tasks Support for surprise undocking A Tutorial on Tablet PC 6/22
Why We Need a Tablet PC? Mobility (sitting, standing, walking...) Ink now, recognize later Can t type for beans or in cramped spaces Drawing / sketching Take notes electronically Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Home Page Top 10 benefits http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/evaluation/topten benefits.mspx Case studies http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/evaluation/casest udies/default.mspx A Tutorial on Tablet PC 7/22
How to Use a Tablet PC?
Tablet PC Development
Development Environment Hardware A Tablet PC Or any other computer, having Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or higher (but handwriting and speech recognition cannot be tested and debugged) Software Tablet PC SDK 1.7 (the latest version) Microsoft Visual Studio Version 6 SP5,.Net 2003,.Net 2005 Programming languages can be Visual C# (recommended), C++, VB6, VB.Net Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (for the course project) A Tutorial on Tablet PC 10/22
It comes with Tablet PC SDK 1.7 Context Tagging Tool Microsoft Tablet PC Platform SDK Documentation Samples and Source Code Suggestion Before jumping into the implementation, please read the above three documentations carefully Most of the coding problems can find solutions from them A Tutorial on Tablet PC 11/22
Tablet PC Platform Overview Ink Collection (Input) Ink Data and Management Ink Recognition A Tutorial on Tablet PC 12/22
Ink Collection (Input) Digitizer Basics Very High Resolution Very High Throughput Packet Properties X, Y Pressure, Angle, Rotation, etc. Using the API to collect Ink InkCollector InkOverlay RealTimeStylus (New in SDK version 1.7) A Tutorial on Tablet PC 13/22
Ink Data And Management Ink is a data type Ink looks good Bezier smoothed Anti-aliased Rich, Extensible API Copy to / paste from the clipboard Multiple persistence formats A Tutorial on Tablet PC 14/22
Ink Recognition Interpret pen movements and/or strokes as: Text (handwriting) Gestures Shapes and symbols Limited object recognition in API Current language support US English, International English, Japanese, German, French, Simplified and Traditional Chinese as well as Korean, Spanish and Italian Additional language support with Lonestar More Asian Languages Synchronous and asynchronous recognition Data structure of recognize result and alternates Extensibility architecture A Tutorial on Tablet PC 15/22
Object Model Overview InkCollector InkOverlay Ink Strokes Renderer Tablet Stroke DrawingAttributes Recognizers Recognizer RecognizerContext A Tutorial on Tablet PC 16/22
Key Objects Ink Collection InkCollector InkOverlay Ink collection events Ink Data Management Ink Strokes Stroke DrawingAttributes Renderer Ink data management events Ink Recognition RecognizerContext RecognitionResult A Tutorial on Tablet PC 17/22
Referencing the SDK The Tablet PC SDK has to be referenced from Microsoft Visual Studio This provides access to the managed object model and controls To add a reference to the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Development Kit 1.7 in Visual Studio.NET Open your Visual Studio.NET project. On the Project menu, click Add Reference. On the.net tab in the Add Reference dialog box, on the components list, select Microsoft Tablet PC API, version 1.7.xxxx.x. Click Select, and then click OK. A Tutorial on Tablet PC 18/22
How to Develop for a Tablet PC?
Tablet PC Resources
Resources Within Tablet PC SDK 1.7 Microsoft Tablet PC Platform SDK Documentation Samples and Source Code MSDN Tablet PC Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/tabletpc/default.aspx MSDN Library http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950406.aspx Windows Tablet PC Home Page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/tabletpc/default.mspx Tablet PC Team Blog http://blogs.technet.com/tabletpc/ Books in the library Google the World Wide Web A Tutorial on Tablet PC 21/22
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