Passing Ink Between Hedit Controls (90485)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing 1.0
This article was previously published under Q90485

SUMMARY

To pass ink between hedit controls, an application must capture the ink when the hedit control's parent window receives the HN_ENDREC notification message. Then the application does either of the following:

  • Sends a WM_HEDITCTL message with wParam set to HE_SETINKMODE to begin collecting ink, and sends a WM_HEDITCTL message with wParam set to HE_STOPINKMODE to stop collecting ink.
  • Specifies RCO_SAVEHPENDATA in the lRcOptions field of the RC data structure.
INK2H is a file that demonstrates capturing ink and using the WM_HEDITCTL message.

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The recognizer returns ink in the hpendata field of the RCRESULT structure. Passing ink between hedit controls is more difficult than using a normal device context (DC). Perform the following four steps to save the ink:

  1. Perform either of the following:

    1. Specify RCO_SAVEHPENDATA in the lRcOptions field of the RC data structure.
    2. Send the WM_HEDITCTL message to the hedit control with HE_SETINKMODE in wParam to begin collecting ink. Send the WM_HEDITCTL message to the hedit control with HE_STOPINKMODE to stop collecting ink.
  2. When the application receives an HN_ENDREC notification for the source hedit control, retrieve the handle to the memory containing the ink. (When recognition is complete, the recognizer sends a WM_COMMAND message with the HN_ENDREC notification as the high-order word of lParam and the ID of the hedit control in wParam.)
  3. Use the SendMessage function to send a WM_HEDITCTL message with HE_GETINKHANDLE as the value for wParam. If the call is successful, the low-order word of the returned value contains a handle to the memory containing the ink.
  4. Depending on the choice made at step 1 above, perform the corresponding step:

    1. If the RCO_SAVEHPENDATA flag was set in step 1, Windows will not delete the data after all corresponding WM_RCRESULT messages have been sent. Therefore, call the DestroyPenData function to delete the pen data when an HN_RCRESULT notification is received.
    2. If HE_SETINKMODE is used, call the DuplicatePenData function to save the ink into a block of memory allocated by the GlobalAlloc function.
The procedure to place the collected ink into another hedit control is very similar. Send a WM_HEDITCTL message with wParam set to HE_SETINKMODE and the low-order of lParam set to the handle to the memory block containing the ink. Then send a WM_HEDITCTL message with wParam set to HE_STOPINKMODE.

The INK2H sample application demonstrates copying ink between hedit controls using the HE_SETINKMODE and HE_STOPINKMODE values with a WM_HEDITCTL message.
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