Getting ink recognition working in WPF
Been a while since i have done any inking code and since Windows Vista makes these type of applications possible without the need for a tablet pc i decided to take a look at how to create these applications with Windows Presentation Foundation.
Turns out you only need three lines of code with an inkcanvas to make this work!!
Dim myAnalyzer As New InkAnalyzer()
myAnalyzer.AddStrokes(InkCanvas1.Strokes)
Dim status As AnalysisStatus = myAnalyzer.Analyze()
Button1.Content = myAnalyzer.GetRecognizedString()
Unfortunately by default this code won't work as the System.Windows.Ink namespace doesn't implement the InkAnalyzer object. You have to add a reference to the assembly IAWinFX.dll
This assembly is located at:
c:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Tablet PC\v1.7\IAWinFX.dll
-I won't say how long this took to find out! i have included both the XAML and code below for a simple inking application with recognition.
<Window x:Class="Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300">
<Grid>
<InkCanvas Margin="0,55,0,0" Name="InkCanvas1" Background="Blue" />
<Button Height="23" Margin="15.5,13,0,0" Name="Button1" Width="75" VerticalAlignment="Top">Button</Button>
</Grid>
</Window>
And the code Behind....
Imports System.Windows.Ink
Class Window1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim myAnalyzer As New InkAnalyzer()
myAnalyzer.AddStrokes(InkCanvas1.Strokes)
Dim status As AnalysisStatus = myAnalyzer.Analyze()
Button1.Content = myAnalyzer.GetRecognizedString()
End Sub
End Class
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