An experiment to bring ink recognition technology to Delphi 7

Download the Tablet PC SDK first, as the Recognizer Pack won't install without the SDK loaded.

I believe this would severely limit the ability to deploy this functionality to Windows 2000/XP clients, as I'm not fond of installing a SDK on our client's computers.

Kinda defeats the purpose of "SDK" - I should be able to deploy software without deploying the SDK.

I wonder if Microsoft would be willing to find a solution or if they want to limit the functionality to Windows Tablet PC and developer's machines only.

Here I go, talking to myself again.

The SDK does have a "Redistributable Merge Module":
"Install the redistributable version of the Tablet PC Platform runtime, which can be included in the setup for software you release."

I wonder if this runtime is enough to satisfy the Recognizer Pack's requirement. Hmm....

I have done the above. I tried to import the Microsoft Ink as an ActiveX. It went OK until I tried to run my program when it created an exception.

EOLEError
Could not obtain OLE COntrol WIndow Handle

Have you installed the SDK and the Recognizer Pack?
I got my first ink recognition app running after an hour or two.

I believe Jon got his done too.

Perhaps you can share about what you've done?

Hey, i want to have Redistributable Ink to HandWrite messages for MSN. Does anyone know where to get it?