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// Instantiate a RecognizerContext object

RecognizerContext context = new RecognizerContext();

// Use a static string property of the Factoid class

context.Factoid = Factoid.Web;

// Use a string literal

context.Factoid = "WEB";

// Use one of the supported Factoid combinations

// for Western languages only

context.Factoid = "WEB|WORDLIST";

Factoid.Currency      

Factoid.Date          

Factoid.Digit         

Factoid.Email         

Factoid.Filename 

Factoid.LowerChar 

Factoid.None 

Factoid.Number 

Factoid.NumberSimple 

Factoid.OneChar 

Factoid.Percent 

Factoid.PostalCode 

Factoid.Telephone 

Factoid.Time 

Factoid.UpperChar 

Factoid.Web 

Factoid.WordList 

Currency, such as $19.99

Date, such as 12/12/2005

Digit, such as 6

Email address such as foo@foo.com

Filename, such as C:\file.txt

Lower case character such as a

No factoid

Number, such as 6e-12

Simple number such as 1024

One character such as A

Percentage such as 99%

Postal code, such as 98072

Telephone number such as 1-800-999-9999

Time such as 4:45pm

Upper case character such as A

Web address such as http://www.microsoft.com

The RecognizerContext will use the WordList property and return a value from that wordlist

//

// Basic Ink enabled Windows Forms application with

// handwriting recognition using RecognizerContext

// Gavin Gear - http://blogs.msdn.com/gavingear

// 08/2006

//

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using Microsoft.Ink; // The managed Tablet PC API

namespace BasicInkApplication

{

    public partial class BasicInkApplication : Form

    {

        // The InkOverlay that we'll attach to our Form

        private InkOverlay inkOverlay;

        public BasicInkApplication()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

            // Create an InkOverlay object that's attached to the Form

            this.inkOverlay = new InkOverlay(this);

            // Enable the InkOverlay (default is Enabled == false)

            this.inkOverlay.Enabled = true;

            // The InkOverlay needs to be disposed due to unmanaged resources

            // used by the InkOverlay

            this.FormClosing += new FormClosingEventHandler(BasicInkApplication_FormClosing);

        }

        void BasicInkApplication_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)

        {

            this.inkOverlay.Dispose();

        }

        private void buttonRecognize_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            // Instantiate a RecognizerContext object

            RecognizerContext context = new RecognizerContext();

            // Use a static string property of the Factoid class

            context.Factoid = Factoid.Web;

            // Add the strokes collected by our InkOverlay

            context.Strokes = this.inkOverlay.Ink.Strokes;

            // Perform recognition, pass a RecognitionStatus object

            // that will give the status of the recognition

            RecognitionStatus status;

            RecognitionResult result = context.Recognize(out status);

            MessageBox.Show(result.TopString);

            context.Dispose(); // Free the unmanaged resources

        }

    }

}