Building Tablet PC Applications

Ink Control Comparison with Managed API

Now that you understand the design goals of the API as well as what it does and does not provide, you may be wondering whether one of the Ink controls might be suitable for your application. Fear not—help is on the way in the form of a stress-free flowchart tailored to aid your decision making (Figure 3-13). The controls are discussed in more detail in Chapter 8, but for now their basic features are contrasted with the managed API in Table 3-5.

A key point when deciding whether to use the managed API or the Ink controls is that the decision is not truly either/or. The Ink controls are usable from managed code and indeed expose portions of the managed API. So in a sense the question is really whether an Ink ...