Using A Touch Screen For Signature

[Learn2010]

Need some help. I have an HP EliteBook laptop. It has the ability to write in programs like Sticky Notes. I thought it would write on an Access form. I can't get it to work.

I have a form that is designed exactly as HR designed it (this is mandatory). The idea was to let the customer sign the screen in the field provided with a stylus, save and print a report with the signature on it. I set the field properties to Text and OLE Object.

It still didn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions, or do you need more information?

Thank you.

 

[Banana]

Never had to work with touchscreens before, I'd have to find out how they function as an input device. I'm tempted to assume they function similarly to a mouse and if that is the case, then you need to have some kind of drawing program to take it in as a brush stroke. Obviously some applications such as OneNote and the "Sticky Notes" you mentioned already supports this natively.

I'd then want to find out if I can embed an object of those documents in an Access form; so if I can add an OneNote document as an OLE object control on my Access form, I would expect it then should be able to take a signature from the touchscreen.

Sorry I don't have any more details or more concrete processes but maybe it'll give you a starting point?

 

[Learn2010]

Thank you for your prompt reply. I did some more testing. I set the field as an OLE Object in the table behind the form. On the form I created a button that is a link to a Sticky Notes 6.3 folder where I saved the Sticky Notes signature.

Clicking the button opens the folder and you can copy the file, which is a bitmap file. You close the folder and click on another button that pastes the picture into the field. This works but there is still a problem. It copies that whole sticky note into the field with the border and controls.

Any suggestions for that?

 

[Banana]

I think what it is basically doing is that it's acting as a simple frame into the Sticky Note application and not directly exposing the Sticky Note as a document. You'd have to look into its object model to see if it exposes any COM automation so you can then manipulate the final appearance.