FoxPro for Windows and Windows for Pen Computing

• Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, version 2.5

SUMMARY

FoxPro currently supports some aspects of Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing. Applications created with FoxPro for Windows can be run with Windows for Pen Computing.

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Applications written using Microsoft FoxPro for Windows can access all buttons, menus, and fields through the pen, and text can be entered in the fields through the pen. The text recognition feature of Windows for Pen Computing works normally--text that is input with the pen is immediately translated into typed text.

However, there currently is no support for inking (the display of a pen's activity); moreover, unrecognized text cannot be stored in text fields, nor can stored ink be recognized later. Although there is no direct support for it, you can store ink in general fields; for example, you can store an OLE Paintbrush picture drawn with a pen in a general field.

No extra applications are needed to create a FoxPro application to run with Windows for Pen Computing. However, the Microsoft Windows version 3.1 Software Development Kit (SDK) is recommended if you are going to develop a Windows for Pen Computing application to run with FoxPro.