Handling Stylus Input In WinCE Applications

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By Nancy Nicolaisen While most CE devices have some sort of "keyboard", these are often tiny and awkward. For obvious reasons, users prefer the stylus. The stylus-oriented interface is really a bonus for Windows CE programmers, because it allows us to dispense with a great deal of the housekeeping that goes with mouse and keyboard based user input on the desktop. Being a "touch screen" kind of device, the stylus eliminates the need for floating cursors, by inherently keeping track of...n

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