Shoutbox

There are only handwriting recognisers for these languages:

English
French
German
Spanish
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

OK, I'll take the English one then.

Thanks anyway

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Originally posted by plasticbag
You need to install a Tablet PC handwriting recogniser.

I've put the UK one here, it's in a zip file -- http://mongfish.com/msnmsgr/mshwuk.dll.zip

I extracted it from Microsoft's Tablet PC Recogniser Pack, available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?f...-8454-26aeab4ba1aa

Put the dll file in your Windows system folder (most likely C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32) and run the following command to install it:

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regsvr32 mshwuk.dll

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If you want the recognisers for any of the other languages let me know and I'll post them too.

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Thank you for that it works great, (although of course the reconition is sometimes wrong, (not easy to write with the mouse ))

Anyways, you don't need to put it in your system folder though, You can put it anyware you like, of course you need to register it

Thanks again

Thankyou plasticbag not only is it fun but its better knowing it all works now lol.

Big thanks for mentioning that

Maybe someone should add it now to the plugin?

You're all quite welcome. I came across this almost by accident while trying to write a plugin to copy+paste ink in the handwriting windows (it's not finished yet.)

Thanks for the tip, CR .. I had a further look at the setup program and I think on a Tablet PC it puts them somewhere in the Common Files\Microsoft Shared folder if you do a proper install. Or something like that.

I've put the rest of the languages up here: http://(obsolete URL removed)

excellent page... I already stored the link to your post to use it as a referrer on IRC and stuff, but I'll change it to that wabpage...

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Originally posted by plasticbag
You're all quite welcome. I came across this almost by accident while trying to write a plugin to copy+paste ink in the handwriting windows (it's not finished yet.)

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that sounds awesome
does that mean we could copy/paste pictures in there?
that could get annoying, but it could be usefull, maybe you coule put a size limit on it

but thats for another thread

At the moment I'm just trying to get ink objects to transfer into and out of the Messenger handwriting tab into another 'InkPicture' control. So far it sort of works, but loses all colour and pen size information, not sure why.

Being able to convert bitmaps to an ink representation would be pretty neat though .. I'll have to try that one!

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Originally posted by plasticbag
Being able to convert bitmaps to an ink representation would be pretty neat though .. I'll have to try that one!

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That would be realy realy hard todo... bitmaps are errr... bitmaps and inks are vectors. Even the best and advanced softwares can't convert bitmaps to vectors in a decent way...