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//

// Basic Ink enabled Windows Forms application with

// handwriting recognition using InkAnalyzer

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

// 09/2006

//

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;

        private InkAnalyzer inkAnalyzer;

        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;

            this.inkOverlay.Stroke += new InkCollectorStrokeEventHandler(inkOverlay_Stroke);

            // Create a new InkAnalyzer

            // - Associate with the InkOverlay's Ink object

            // - Send the Form "this" as the synchronizing object

            this.inkAnalyzer = new InkAnalyzer(this.inkOverlay.Ink, this);

            // Hook up to the InkAnalyzer.ResultsUpdated event

            // in order to be notified when BackgroundAnalyze() finishes

            this.inkAnalyzer.ResultsUpdated +=

                new ResultsUpdatedEventHandler(inkAnalyzer_ResultsUpdated);

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

            // used by the InkOverlay

            this.FormClosing += new FormClosingEventHandler(BasicInkApplication_FormClosing);

        }

        // The InkOverlay.Stroke event is fired after a new stroke is

        // collected by the InkOverlay

        void inkOverlay_Stroke(object sender, InkCollectorStrokeEventArgs e)

        {

            // We have a new stroke, add it to the InkAnalyzer

            this.inkAnalyzer.AddStroke(e.Stroke);

        }

        // Clean up unmanaged resources

        void BasicInkApplication_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)

        {

            this.inkOverlay.Dispose();

            this.inkAnalyzer.Dispose(); // Free the unmanaged resources

        }

        private void buttonRecognize_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            // Kick off asynchronous analysis

            // Should check that BackgroundAnalyze() returns true here

            this.inkAnalyzer.BackgroundAnalyze();

        }

        // This event is fired when analysis is complete

        void inkAnalyzer_ResultsUpdated(object sender, ResultsUpdatedEventArgs e)

        {

            // Note: Should check: e.Status.Successful == true

            // here to confirm BackgroundAnalyze() was successful

            MessageBox.Show(this.inkAnalyzer.GetRecognizedString());

        }

    }

}