Thank you, Rainald.

This "improvement" rendars the vitual keyboard supporting pen writing not
operable, surely it is not an "improvement" but more of a bug!

My problem is not "opening" the keybaord, its that it would not become
active long enough for me to "write" even 1 character. It also will not
insert any character I managed to write into the application!

I guess the next best option for me is to remove SP2 and the update to the
keyboard supporting the pen...

EK


"Rainald Taesler" wrote:

> A Toshiba Portege M200 User shared these words of wisdom:
>
> > I have a portege M200. Prior to updating the latest tablet XP
> > edition from Microsoft, I was fine using the text pen writing
> > feature for any of the Office desktop tools. But recently, notably
> > after MS update, the "keyboard" that appears when I am using my pen
> > to enter text starts to "flash" on/off while I an writing in the
> > yellow area and I cannot enter text as before, any one had a clue
> > to why?
>
> The behaviour of the TIP has been changed with SP2.
> It only pops now when needed and disappears when no longer needed.
>
> This was done as an improvemnet because of the requests in users'
> feedback.
> And it's changed again in Vista (due to users' requests).
>
> But you can alway open it by clicking on the TIP icon in the
> Quick-Star area of the TaskBar.
>
> Rainald
>
>