Enabling Gestures Sample
This sample demonstrates how to enable and disable the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 system-recognition of gestures.
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Demonstrates
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 provides system-level recognition of various traced gestures, ranging from basic geometric shapes (squares, circles, triangles, and so on) to proofreading symbols such as curlicues and chevrons. You can use the SetGestureStatus method of the InkOverlay class to enable or disable gesture recognition and fine-tune it.
This sample enumerates all the system gestures and populates a CheckedListBox with their names. When gestures are checked or unchecked, recognition of them is turned on or off. Some additional processing is required to handle the AllGestures and NoGestures commands.
The Gesture event is raised by InkOverlay as appropriate. The associated event arguments contain an array of Gestures together with their Id and Confidence levels.
Note
NoGesture is often passed with a higher Confidence than the hoped-for gesture. Therefore, you should use a loop similar to the one shown in this sample to iterate over the passed-in Gestures and confirm that the hoped-for gesture does in fact have a higher Confidence.
The array of returned Gestures is displayed in a Label.
This sample requires that the following be installed:
Visual Studio
Tablet PC Platform SDK
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005