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Saturday, 28 July 2012

Drawing / Inking API in WinRT (C#)

If you are planning to develop an application that is going to have the drawing capability, one of the first namespaces to resort to in WinRT is the Inking namespace. Using the InkManager in Windows 8 (Metro) applications, you can:

  • Draw ink strokes
  • Capture ink strokes
  • Render Strokes on a Canvas using different geometries
  • Select Strokes
  • Delete Strokes
  • Save and Load Strokes
  • Convert strokes to text through handwriting recognition
  • Copy/Paste strokes from the clipboard
  • Hit Test the pen input

In  this article, we will be talking about different methodologies for rendering the pen input on the Canvas element on Metro applications.

You can get the complete solution that will be used as the example from TechNet : Windows 8 Input: Ink sample in C#/Xaml

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1 comment:

  1. how to draw inkstrokes over image and save?

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