Sipanel.exe: Soft Input Panel

This tool allows you to use Windows 2000 on computers that have a pen as the only or primary input device. Soft Input Panel does simple handwriting recognition and allows you to enter characters in any input field of any Windows-based application by writing the characters into Soft Input Panel and then sending the characters to the application. You can also choose to enter characters by using one of Soft Input Panel's keyboard views.

Soft Input Panel has three views:

• Handwriting recognizer, with two, three, or four character input areas
• Small software keyboard
• Large software keyboard

When you start Soft Input Panel, a pen icon appears in the taskbar. Click the icon to toggle Soft Input Panel on and off. To run Soft Input Panel every time you log on, create a shortcut to Sipanel.exe, and place it in your computer's Startup folder. For information about creating shortcuts, see the Windows 2000 Help documentation.

Note

• Before configuring the computer to use a pen as the only input device, you must configure Windows 2000 to allow automatic logon. Without the Auto Logon feature you will not be able to activate logon, as this normally requires you to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to open the logon dialog box. In addition, you will not be able to enter characters to the logon box since Soft Input Panel is not yet running at that time. For more information, please refer to the Auto Logon Setter documentation.
• This application supports only U.S. character sets.

Files Required

• Sipanel.exe
• Activate.dll
• Fwalpha.dll
• Fwalpha2.dll
• Hwxpad.dll
• Hwxeng.dll
• Sipanel.cnt
• Sipanel.hlp
• Usa.lex - This file is copied to the %SystemRoot% folder.