Mobile PC (Tablet PC) - Thoughts and Ideas : Inker

Inker - vs - ActiveWords part II

wnewquay — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:18:00 GMT

Wow,

Pete at ActiveWords support spotted one of my postings about this conflict and wrote to me to suggest turning off the ActiveWords Buffer. Did you catch that? This was a proactive support response. I was going to wait for a response from the Inker developers before troubling the folks at ActiveWords. They were onto this before I asked.

Pete wrote:

To turn off the ActiveWord buffer -

From the ActiveWords MonitorBar Menu, select "Options...".

Select the tab "Operating Mode".

Press the "Advanced..." button.

Check "Disable ActiveWord buffer".

Close the "Options" dialog.

NOTE: When working with the ActiveWords Buffer turned off, you may need to pause your typing when executing a "Text Substitution" ActiveWord to avoid character overlapping.

In some limited testing this morning, this seems to be working.

Thanks to Pete at ActiveWords.

I should mention that the Tablet Input Panel (TIP) works fine with ActiveWords running (without the modification) I was going to wait to see what the people at Inker were going to do about this in their next build. See: Inker Users Discussion.

Inker - vs - ActiveWords

wnewquay — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:18:00 GMT

Inker seems not to work when ActiveWords is running. Specifcally, text that is recognized in the Inker window does not get inserted properly in the target application. This would be a very tough call for me if I had to choose between one or the other. As soon as my account in the Inker discussion group is approved, I will post about the incompatibility there.

Inker - a replacement for the TIP (Tablet Input Panel)?

wnewquay — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:11:00 GMT

Inker - from ATOZED software

This looks very interesting. It is still in beta with plenty of issues being discussed on their Inker-Users discussion on Yahoo Groups.

Here is an excerpt from the website. It certainly bears watching.

What is Inker?

Inker is a replacement for the Windows pen input system. Inker is more efficient to use and more customizable than TIP.

Inker includes all of the functionality of TIP and more, however Inker and TIP can run side by side. Installing and using Inker does not disable or remove TIP, however we suggest you turn off the automatic pop up features of TIP.

Inker uses the same writing recognition engine as TIP does, however Inker focuses on reducing pen clicks for input and corrections through a streamlined user interface. Inker is written in C# and WPF.