I recently bought an Acer tablet PC primarily to use as a wirelss link to my databases, as well as for site work. I have however found that my forms do not seem to accept text sent from the handwriting - although they do from th evirtual keyboard - am i doing soemthing wrong? or won't forms use the hand writing recognition. I hope it isn't the latter as i had planned to implement tablets at work for data entry/collection and don't want to do this via exel if i can help it.

Carl,

One alternative that you may wish to pursue is to download the Tablet SDK.
After installing it, you can add both the InkEdit and InkPicture controls to
your Access Form using the ToolBox. With the InkEdit you can directly ink
in the control and the ink will be available for recognition. It is a very
direct and simple approach. Saving ink to the database can be accomplished
with a few lines of VBA.

To answer specifically your original question, can you provide which version
of Access and which Tablet OS your currently using. It is a bit of a moving
target with all kinds of combinations of versions, TIPs etc.

Hope this helps.

Fritz

--
Fritz Switzer
Microsoft MVP Tablet PC
www.abletfactory.com



"Carl" <Carl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ECDD7069-3185-47BB-BD9B-D78565A37740@microsoft.com...
> I recently bought an Acer tablet PC primarily to use as a wirelss link to
my databases, as well as for site work. I have however found that my forms
do not seem to accept text sent from the handwriting - although they do from
th evirtual keyboard - am i doing soemthing wrong? or won't forms use the
hand writing recognition. I hope it isn't the latter as i had planned to
implement tablets at work for data entry/collection and don't want to do
this via exel if i can help it.

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:05:49 -0500, "Fritz Switzer"
<fritz.switzer@abletfactory.com> wrote:

>Carl,
>
>One alternative that you may wish to pursue is to download the Tablet SDK.
>After installing it, you can add both the InkEdit and InkPicture controls to
>your Access Form using the ToolBox. With the InkEdit you can directly ink
>in the control and the ink will be available for recognition. It is a very
>direct and simple approach. Saving ink to the database can be accomplished
>with a few lines of VBA.
>
>To answer specifically your original question, can you provide which version
>of Access and which Tablet OS your currently using. It is a bit of a moving
>target with all kinds of combinations of versions, TIPs etc.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Fritz

Don't know if this will apply to the original poster, but it's what I
always refer to when someone talks about access but doesn't specify
the version. :)

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822656

John

Currently i use Access 2000 and the Tablet OS is XP proffessional tablet 5.1.2600 service pack 1 build 2600.

If i add the ink from the SDK i assume i can still use the database on my non tablet machines?

Thanks so far

"Fritz Switzer" wrote:

> Carl,
>
> One alternative that you may wish to pursue is to download the Tablet SDK.
> After installing it, you can add both the InkEdit and InkPicture controls to
> your Access Form using the ToolBox. With the InkEdit you can directly ink
> in the control and the ink will be available for recognition. It is a very
> direct and simple approach. Saving ink to the database can be accomplished
> with a few lines of VBA.
>
> To answer specifically your original question, can you provide which version
> of Access and which Tablet OS your currently using. It is a bit of a moving
> target with all kinds of combinations of versions, TIPs etc.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Fritz
>
> --
> Fritz Switzer
> Microsoft MVP Tablet PC
> www.abletfactory.com
>
>
>
> "Carl" <Carl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ECDD7069-3185-47BB-BD9B-D78565A37740@microsoft.com...
> > I recently bought an Acer tablet PC primarily to use as a wirelss link to
> my databases, as well as for site work. I have however found that my forms
> do not seem to accept text sent from the handwriting - although they do from
> th evirtual keyboard - am i doing soemthing wrong? or won't forms use the
> hand writing recognition. I hope it isn't the latter as i had planned to
> implement tablets at work for data entry/collection and don't want to do
> this via exel if i can help it.
>
>
>

Carl,

Yes, you can probably use the Database depending on how you saved the ink.
If it is converted to text using the InkEdit that should be okay. If you
use the InkPicture, that data needs to be Encoded to Base64 or some other
format and persisted in something like a Memo Field and redisplayed .

However, you may want to test on systems without the SDK installed to see
what happens. Additional inking capabilities exist with Office 2003, what
specific enhancements over Access 2000 should be listed on a Microsoft web
page.

For code to save/load ink from/to Access, a C# Tutorial "HelloInkWorld"
might help. Converting to VBA would be the only additional task. The code
is available from a number of sites, www.tabletpcpost.com www.gotdotnet.com
and the website in my sig.

HTH

Fritz


--
Fritz Switzer
Microsoft MVP Tablet PC
www.abletfactory.com



"Carl" <Carl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4010BD49-0ED6-4B64-96F0-2DB3CA84778F@microsoft.com...
> Currently i use Access 2000 and the Tablet OS is XP proffessional tablet
5.1.2600 service pack 1 build 2600.
>
> If i add the ink from the SDK i assume i can still use the database on my
non tablet machines?
>
> Thanks so far
>
> "Fritz Switzer" wrote:
>
> > Carl,
> >
> > One alternative that you may wish to pursue is to download the Tablet
SDK.
> > After installing it, you can add both the InkEdit and InkPicture
controls to
> > your Access Form using the ToolBox. With the InkEdit you can directly
ink
> > in the control and the ink will be available for recognition. It is a
very
> > direct and simple approach. Saving ink to the database can be
accomplished
> > with a few lines of VBA.
> >
> > To answer specifically your original question, can you provide which
version
> > of Access and which Tablet OS your currently using. It is a bit of a
moving
> > target with all kinds of combinations of versions, TIPs etc.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Fritz
> >
> > --
> > Fritz Switzer
> > Microsoft MVP Tablet PC
> > www.abletfactory.com
> >
> >
> >
> > "Carl" <Carl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:ECDD7069-3185-47BB-BD9B-D78565A37740@microsoft.com...
> > > I recently bought an Acer tablet PC primarily to use as a wirelss link
to
> > my databases, as well as for site work. I have however found that my
forms
> > do not seem to accept text sent from the handwriting - although they do
from
> > th evirtual keyboard - am i doing soemthing wrong? or won't forms use
the
> > hand writing recognition. I hope it isn't the latter as i had planned to
> > implement tablets at work for data entry/collection and don't want to do
> > this via exel if i can help it.
> >
> >
> >

Many thanks

Now to go off and try to learn soemthing else new, or go back to a card index ;-)

"Fritz Switzer" wrote:

> Carl,
>
> Yes, you can probably use the Database depending on how you saved the ink.
> If it is converted to text using the InkEdit that should be okay. If you
> use the InkPicture, that data needs to be Encoded to Base64 or some other
> format and persisted in something like a Memo Field and redisplayed .
>
> However, you may want to test on systems without the SDK installed to see
> what happens. Additional inking capabilities exist with Office 2003, what
> specific enhancements over Access 2000 should be listed on a Microsoft web
> page.
>
> For code to save/load ink from/to Access, a C# Tutorial "HelloInkWorld"
> might help. Converting to VBA would be the only additional task. The code
> is available from a number of sites, www.tabletpcpost.com www.gotdotnet.com
> and the website in my sig.
>
> HTH
>
> Fritz
>
>
> --
> Fritz Switzer
> Microsoft MVP Tablet PC
> www.abletfactory.com
>
>
>
> "Carl" <Carl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4010BD49-0ED6-4B64-96F0-2DB3CA84778F@microsoft.com...
> > Currently i use Access 2000 and the Tablet OS is XP proffessional tablet
> 5.1.2600 service pack 1 build 2600.
> >
> > If i add the ink from the SDK i assume i can still use the database on my
> non tablet machines?
> >
> > Thanks so far
> >
> > "Fritz Switzer" wrote:
> >
> > > Carl,
> > >
> > > One alternative that you may wish to pursue is to download the Tablet
> SDK.
> > > After installing it, you can add both the InkEdit and InkPicture
> controls to
> > > your Access Form using the ToolBox. With the InkEdit you can directly
> ink
> > > in the control and the ink will be available for recognition. It is a
> very
> > > direct and simple approach. Saving ink to the database can be
> accomplished
> > > with a few lines of VBA.
> > >
> > > To answer specifically your original question, can you provide which
> version
> > > of Access and which Tablet OS your currently using. It is a bit of a
> moving
> > > target with all kinds of combinations of versions, TIPs etc.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > Fritz
> > >
> > > --
> > > Fritz Switzer
> > > Microsoft MVP Tablet PC
> > > www.abletfactory.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Carl" <Carl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:ECDD7069-3185-47BB-BD9B-D78565A37740@microsoft.com...
> > > > I recently bought an Acer tablet PC primarily to use as a wirelss link
> to
> > > my databases, as well as for site work. I have however found that my
> forms
> > > do not seem to accept text sent from the handwriting - although they do
> from
> > > th evirtual keyboard - am i doing soemthing wrong? or won't forms use
> the
> > > hand writing recognition. I hope it isn't the latter as i had planned to
> > > implement tablets at work for data entry/collection and don't want to do
> > > this via exel if i can help it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>