Tablet PC Buzz

Journal and Adobe Command Line Options

I have written a little piece of software that allows my to index the information in the files on my computer. To put it briefly, you associate a file with a given piece of information and place it in a heierarchical tree of your own layout. Once the tree is created, you can select a piece of information and tell the program to open the file, at which point it "executes" the file, letting the Shell find the associated program.

The problem is that my class notes can be over 100 pages long, so it would be nice to be able to associate a page with a given piece of information's file, at least for file types that interest me like PDF and journal files.

In order to do this, I need to know the command-line switches for Journal and Adobe, in the very least, and if they have an "open to page" option. I have scoured Google's view of the net and found nothing except one bit for Adobe that required a subscription, so any help would be much appreciated.

SoftWire for Tablet PC is now FREE!

Details in my blog: http://www.dochogan.com/index.php?itemid=19

Apologies for the method of posting...I'm still learning my wway around blogging :-S If anyone wants to give me pointers...

Anyway, SoftWIRE is a *visual* development system, integrated into the VS.NET IDE. It really is a *great* colement to the TabletPC, and should make development *on* the TPC magnitudes easier by reducing the amount of text-input to a bare minimum. The SoftWIRE will, after you design the entire framework and logic of your app graphically, create the majority of your code by building the *entire* framework from your visual layout. Think of an application-specific Visio, combined with, say, ElectronicWorkbench's simulation, PropellerHead Reason's logical cable patches, or DarkTreeTextures' procedural graphics (or Alias Maya's HyperShade).

this should ROCK in TPC dev!

slow input panel response time

Hey, folks.
This is actually a dev-ish question, not a user-ish question. ;-)

I'm curious, does anyone know or have some theories why the docked-mode input panel is so slow to open? (I assume other people have experienced this? My M275 convertible was like this from day one.) It strikes me as an incredibly bad place to have a long lag, as it makes the docked version of input panel (and its "convenient" open gesture) all but useless, especially for a convertible, unless you want to keep it open all the time.

I have two theories, myself. Excessive use of managed code is one possibility, although I sort of doubt it since as some of the input panel stuff is always running in the background, it shouldn't take that long to initialize. More likely, I suspect that synchronously resizing all open windows and the desktop is the culprit. Every application needs to be resized, even ones that have been quiescent for quite some time and been swapped out to disk -- hence all the disk activity. It seems like MS oughta be able to fix that by deferring resize requests except for the active window, or something like that. (Although, as independent devs, we probably like the inadequacy because it makes room for our accessory tools! ;) Although, it hurts the platform in general, which is not good for us either.)

I suspect much of the demand for alternative input tools like Inkable Keys and floating panels like my little MiniScroller experiment is due to this slowness. If you could just pop up an input panel, do what you wanted, and get rid of it quickly, you wouldn't need supplementary input panels that didn't share its sluggishness.

What are your thoughts?
--Micah

ActiveX control doesn't work...

Hi,

I got a java web application which has a embedded activex control - when calling the page from localhost the activex control works perfectly. On the other side, when calling the page from another host within our network the activex control doesn't work (there is just the small square that indicates an activex control).

Any help would be greatly appreciated

- Stephan

Any tablet-geared dev software?

I just recently got my great TC1000 (from here! :)) and I'm enjoying it immensely. However, I was wondering if anyone knows of any good tablet-centric IDEs, able for use without a keyboard? I'm picturing some kind of merge between Visio-like software and actually filling in the code through whatever means (keyboard, hand-written).

Problems running first example...

Hi,

I'm using Microsoft Tablet PC Platform SDK 1.7 and Win XP. I'd like to use an activex control within my webapp (Java Webapp, JSP, Tomcat).

Here is the code I put in my JavaServer Page:

<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>

Signatur-Demo

Signatur-Demo

width="400" height="296">
Sorry, your browser doesn't seem to support controls.

When running the example in IE 6.0 the page is displayed - but the activex control doesn't seem to work.

Can anyone give me a hint or solution on how to use an activex control (ink) within my java web application (JSP)?

Best regards,

- Stephan

dev ideas & advice

Hey, people, I've got an idea for a very cool & useful drawing tool or plugin. I have some development experience, & may try to start coding for tablets, but would like to discuss:

May I assume that an incidence of ink writing can be interpreted as a series of XY points? And that standard algorithms exist for converting these points into a vector-based element? If these methods are readily available, I could probably wire this together with just a few lines of code, yet would still have some ramping up to do.

Might anyone here be interested in co-developing a potentially marketable tool plugin? With some additional features, it might even work as a standalone application.

BF[pirate]

How did you get started devleping for tablet pc?

Imagine you're going back in time to when you first decided to learn how to program for the tablet pc platform (or were told to learn how ).

If you had to give yourself advice on how to get started, what would you say? What books/tutorials/methods/forums/etc would you reccomend to your ignorant, naive, innocent self?

Better yet, pretend I am that younger version of yourself. Heck, you don't even have to pretend.

So, share your beginner advice, tips, and tricks. Thanks :D

Anyone tried InfiNotes yet?

Have you guys tried the new InfiNotes ink controls? http://www.infinotes.com
They should cut out a substantial part of your development if you want notes in your application.

Check it out and let us know what you think.

Opinions on HID tablets?

I'm thinking about experimenting with the Tablet PC SDK. I have a few ideas, but don't have a Tablet PC. I was wondering whether it would make sense to start with a HID tablet attached to my laptop? Any opinions would be appreciated.

doug