I really don't know what he meant by that, Mack. He does occasionally read
this newsgroup, so maybe he will pop in with an answer.

Yes, you can invoke the anchored (Dock) TIP even though your Option may be
for Undock at any time, either by tapping the icon in the Taskbar or using
the Gesture over the icon. The only thing is once you bring it back to
Dock, you need to change it to Undock or else it will remain anchored in
whichever position (top or bottom of the screen) you've chosen.

Firefox, as I understand it, is not Ink aware. There was a third-party
program (http://tpctip.mozdev.org/index.html) for Firefox which supposedly
adds the context tagging. You might want to take a look at it.
--
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:q72xe.97937$PR6.96160@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>I use Firefox 90% of the time and it seems to me as though my little
>floating TIP box often appears, although not always. As you say, it
>depends on the program and in some instances I have to invoke the docked
>TIP at the bottom of the screen.
>
> What I was wondering was, if I did not automatically get the undocked TIP
> box, if I could invoke it, in the way I invoke the docked one by clicking
> on the little icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.
>
> Per my last message, what do you think Jeff West, in that article, meant
> by "double click the title bar" to undock the TIP? I can't figure out
> what the hell he was talking about. Or maybe that is an old explanation
> and everything has been superceded.
>
> mack
> austin
>
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews********.com> wrote in message
> news:%23bxVDpbfFHA.3656@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
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