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July 18, 2008  
Subject: TIP only works in Landscape orientation
Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc
Date: 4/26/2008 10:26:26 AM
From: "Jerry" [Email Address Protection]

This is on an Everun UMPC running XP Table Edition. The computer senses its
position in space and automatically adjusts itself to any of 4 possible
conditions Landscape, Portrait and the upside-down versions of each of
those.

In Landscape mode I run notepad and use the icon on the taskbar to bring up
the TIP. I write, ink appears at the tip of the stylus and the writing is
converted to text properly. I can insert it into notepad.

I rotate the computer 90 degrees. It pops into Portrait mode .. the task bar
is properly reposition at the bottom of the screen, the desktop icons are
all moved appropriately. The stylus can point properly at the icons and the
taskbar. I bring up the TIP, write onto its surface (left to right), and
the ink appears starting at the right, rotated 90 degrees and goes DOWN the
screen. The ink does NOT appear at the tip of the stylus, but elsewhere on
the screen, even directly onto the desktop. However, the TIP is still able
to convert it to text and I can still insert it into notepad.

Here's a kicker. If I write onto the TIP in portrait mode, and the ink is
in the entirely wrong place, if I rotate the pc to put it back into
landscape mode, when the TIP repaints, the ink appears right in the place it
should be in the TIP. It's as if, no matter what position the screen is in,
handwriting into TIP ALWAYS appears on the screen in the position it would
be if the pc were in right-side-up landscape mode.

The computer, the OS and everything else appears to work fine after changing
the display by rotating the pc, only the handwriting going into the TIP
doesn't match the position of the stylus.

Has anyone ever seen this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.



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