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?

Thanks.

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

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
>
>

A Toshiba Portege M200 User shared these words of wisdom:

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

I take the liberty to disagree.

> 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!

Seems that you might possibly do something wrong.
It works fine on my side.

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

BEWARE of doing that!!
Apart from security issues you'd just loose too much.

Rainald

Since updating to XP SP2 and the Tablet PC Edition 2005, have you downloaded
and installed the latest Wacom drivers? Check here:
http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/driver.cfm for the version 4.95-6 Penabled
Tablet PC drivers. As for the Tablet Input Panel closing on you, the
behavior when you're using the TIP in Undock mode is for the little floating
TIP icon to appear on-screen when the cursor is in a text input area AND the
pen is within about 1/2 inch of the screen. If the sensor portion of the
pen is lifted out of the digitizer range, if may be thinking the pen input
is finished.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"A Toshiba Portege M200 User"
<AToshibaPortegeM200User@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message
news:2630EFD6-C9D5-4064-84AE-5B70C0C485E7@microsoft.com...
> 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
>>
>>

"A Toshiba Portege M200 User"
<AToshibaPortegeM200User@discussions.microsoft.com > wrote in message
news:2630EFD6-C9D5-4064-84AE-5B70C0C485E7@microsoft.com...
>
> I guess the next best option for me is to remove SP2 and the update to the
> keyboard supporting the pen...
>


You mention "write" several times, so this may not be of interest to you,
but as an option consider trying the onscreen keyboard under
start\accessories\accessibility. It stays on the screen and is better
behaved for some apps that the TIP. Of course, it does NOT support
handwriting, only taps for keys.