Progress on a Tablet PC
Published March 29th, 2006 in Progress
I’ve been meaning wrap this up and post it for a while, so here goes. It’s a very simple window which will let you capture a signature using the MS Tablet PC SDK. This code should run on any tablet PC, but you can also run it on a plain XP machine as long as you download and install the Tablet PC SDK first. In the later case you should be able to use your mouse / graphics tablet to “sign” in the box.
The actual ink itself is quite compact and could easily be stored in a database, you probably wouldn’t even need to use BLOBs / CLOBs. The InkPicture control itelf can have a background image loaded, so as well as the classic signature capture application, it’d be really useful for any kind of annotation / handwritten form.
Anyway, here’s the code ( in a zip file ). Hope someone finds it useful. If you’re interested in running Progress on a Tablet, you should check out the SDK. This code is just a very simple example, there’s a lot more to the SDK.