Windows 10: Does Windows 10 have the flyout Tablet PC Input Panel?

I've gotten used to using handwriting with a Wacom tablet and Win 7 "Tablet PC Input Panel" that is parked on the side of the screen. I just got a new laptop with Win 8.1 and Tablet PC Input Panel doesn't seem to exist.

Does anybody know if the flyout Tablet PC Input Panel is in Windows 10?

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Tablet PC input in Windows 10

Just bought Surface Pro 3, Windows 10. Prior tablet was Toshiba Windows Vista. I preferred the tablet PC input panel from Vista (Tablet PC Input Panel version 6.0.6000 ).

1) Is there a way to install Tablet PC Input Panel version 6.0.6000 and use it in Windows 10?

2) Is there a way to make the Windows 10 tablet PC input panel smaller and dockable at the bottom of the screen?

 

Tablet Mode

Hi wadesk, to quickly turn off Tablet Mode:

Press Windows + A

Click the Tablet Mode button to switch on or off Tablet Mode

On the flyout, if you cannot see the Tablet Mode button click Expand

 

Hello Shokan, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

I'm afraid the Touch Keyboard (tabtip.exe) replaced the Tablet PC Input Panel since Windows 8.

 

Maybe Wacom will issue something similar to Tablet PC Input Panel... but, I doubt it. I am rolling back to Windows 7. Goodbye 8.1and 10. A possible alternative is voice recognition but I know nothing about that and whether it is applicable for easy text insertion into email text, Notepad, etc..

 

Is the onscreen keyboard any good?

http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/h...ons-windows-10

 

No, I use an active stylus with an external Wacom graphics tablet and anyway the screen is not touch or pen enabled. I'm going back to Windows 7. Microsoft let me down. I have to say also, I find Windows 8.1 to be not so good. There are a few thingsthat are not intuitive and/or missing compared to v7.

 

Maybe I'm missing something here, but wouldn't your anger be pointed at Wacom instead? Nothing everything is going to be intuitive, as that is the normal case, but that doesn't mean they are bad.

 

Not angry, just disappointed. Love Windows but I think it only goes as far as v7.

 

I realize if you use an obscure feature that is later removed, you'll be unhappy, but the improvements in Windows 10 justify staying current. Every time there's a new release, people complain about changes. If nothing ever changed, we'd be using old technology and the OS would become so bloated and sluggish trying to accommodate everyone's wishes.

 

Handwriting Recognition in v7 was probably the best feature of the OS for me, besides it being just a really good general OS experience. I have looked into Win 10 and there isn't anything innovative enough in it that would make me want it. Not at all, as a matter of fact. I'm sure I'll probably come around to feel differently some day. All I do is browse, email and have no other devices besides a laptop.

 

Based on the article, I am holding out hope.

Early preview of new Handwriting Recognition Interface for Windows 10 tablets - Tablet PC Reviews News for Australia

Quote from page:

"However, we are interested in the changes to the handwriting panel because many Windows 7 handwriting users felt that the move to Windows 8 was a big step backward. Sure the Touch Keyboard in Win 8 was vastly better than the Win 7 equivalent. But the floating yellow handwriting input panel in Windows 7 offered a lot more flexibility."

A lot of people like myself used "Tablet PC Input Panel" all the time and it is sorely missed by many. People in the graphics field, by and large, do not use a mouse. Wacom tablets are the standard pointing device. Once used to the v7 handwriting recogntition, it is VERY difficult to do the antiquated keyboard and mouse thing.

Win 7 Handwriting Recognition was a resource hog as far as I know. I am looking into voice recognition as an alternative solution, but not MS voice recogntiion.. I want to throw my keyboard out the window for good.

 

My limited usage of Cortana has been very positive. What about Dragon Naturally Speaking?

 

Yes, that was what I was thinking of (Dragon). Apparently you can speak directly into things like email and such. It's definitely a possibility for me. It'd be way better than handwriting recognition, which would often mess up in Win 7 despite training the component. There were many emails of mine which had embarrassing changes made by the program after I'd finish inputting a sentence that subsequently got sent in the changed form because I did not review the text. Some of them were important emails, too. I cringed.

I owned a circa 1998 version of Dragon and it was great. Probably even better now given a good CPU and memory.

I will look into Cortana, which I've heard about, but am not sure of its capabilities. Your suggestion that it may be quite capable is definitely worth lookin ino, especially because I would like to warm up to Win 10.

 

What may be obscure to some is vital to others. As a doctor, the ability to write clear correct chart notes with an active stylus is a little more important than finger gestures (though I can think of one I would aim at Redmond) or flicks. The ability of Windows 7 TPI to hover over any text box and start writing accurately was invaluable to me and other doctors and professionals. My Motion Tablet with Windows 7 allowed me to interact directly with patients eye-eye while writing accurate HIPAA-compliant chart notes. With Windows 10 I see no way to do this, and the onscreen keyboard is not a viable option unless you type with 1 finger and about 10 words per minute. I guess I could play a game while someone else types on a standard workstation. So for a business user on the move that needs to input on a light tablet and not a laptop that needs to be set down for input, what options can there be now? Using Cortana or Dragon speech isn't exactly an answer when in the patient's room - "patient appears agitated and is showing signs of advanced dementia" writes much better than it is said aloud. Even if Cortana wasn't an actual keylogger that makes it not useful for government or healthcare anyway. So is there any options, no matter the price, that allows the active stylus input like in Windows 7? When support for Windows 7 goes, it will be non-compliant with healthcare software as an operating system. For now, while I use 10 at home, I guess I will have to use 7 at work. Am I missing something?