Mack, if you invoke the Undock in the Tablet Input Panel, then you never
ever again need to use the gesture to launch the TIP because it is supposed
to appear when you're using the pen AND in a text input area. If you
gesture the TIP icon on the Taskbar, then it interprets the move as one to
launch the TIP in Dock mode.

By the same token, not all programs have the proper tagging for the text
input, so you may not see the floating (TIP access) icon. Some programs,
like Firefox, don't properly identify themselves for text input, so you
would need to use the gesture, then the docked TIP for inserting the
conversion of handwriting to text. Identification, since Tablet PCs are so
new, is an on-going project - even for Microsoft programs.

For instance, the basic Office 2003 family programs, which are doing pretty
well with Ink, already have an update (Office 2003 Tablet PC Update:
Improved Ink Recognition) for additional context tagging locations. It is
available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Hope this hasn't confused you. 8-)
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Mack McKinnon" <MckinnonRemoveThis@tvadmanDeleteThisAsWell.com> wrote in
message news:i6Wwe.89794$6g3.13939@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> In a column I read last night by Jeff West about handwriting recognition,
> in a discussion about using the gesture to open the TIP (docked at the
> bottom), he says (can't get the page right now, for some reason, so I will
> quote from memory): "To undock the TIP, double-click the title bar."
> Apparently, by doing this, you switch from the big, docked TIP at the
> bottom, to the little, floating TIP up the page, near where you want to
> write.
>
> OK, I tried that. The only title bar I know of is the one at the top of
> the web page. When I double-click on that, either before or after
> gesturing to bring up the TIP at the bottom of the page, it toggles the
> web page from full screen to windowed.
>
> Is he talking about some other "title bar"? The TIP does not have a title
> bar, that I can see. It would be convenient to bring it up small,
> whenever I wanted, instead of depending on the whim of the program I am
> using.
>
> mack
> austin
>