What Are the Benefits of Having a Digitizer Available for Development?
All Tablet PCs have an electromagnetic digitizer located behind the LCD, which enables the user to use a stylus to engage the computer. When developing software for the Tablet PC, you want to replicate this environment as closely as possible. There are key differences between using a mouse and using a digitizer, both in form and function. The major differences include: • A digitizer runs at much a higher resolution than a mouse. The information that comes from a digitizer is much more granular. Most digitizers have resolutions in the 10000 x 10000 range, which is 10 times greater than the resolution of a mouse. The higher resolution allows the ink to look much smoother, because more data results in better Bezier smoothing and more accurate anti-aliasing of the ink that is collected. In addition, the handwriting recognizers on a Tablet PC have more information to use for perform recognition, which improves recognition accuracy. • A digitizer runs at a much faster throughput than a mouse
