### Pen Options Dialog

The Pen Options dialog box contains five tabs: Layout/Resources, Options, Inks, Symbol Sets, and Include/Exclude Regions. There are Cancel and Enter buttons along the bottom of the dialog box.

Layout/Resources
The Layouts/Resource tab specifies the name of the DLL containing the pointer resources, if these resources do not reside within the executable. You can enter the name of the DLL within the Name entry field. You can select or enter the pointers through the ID fields labeled Proximity and Writing. The pen sub-system uses the Proximity pointer whenever the pointer is within the proximity of the control. The Writing pointer is used whenever writing occurs within the control.

You can specify the line layout width and spacing within the entry fields Width and Spacing. If you want to use the pen system defaults for these values, you can simply click on the Defaults check box. You can also select the desired color in the Box Layout group.

When you are selecting the pen options for the handwriting control, you can specify the box layout instead of the line layout. In this case, set the box width and height through the Width and Height entry fields. If you want to use the pen system defaults for these values, you can select the Defaults check box.

Options
Through the Options tab, you can set the various options used by the pen sub-system when using pen with the control. You can set the following options:

- Trigger allows you to select exit proximity, liftoff, and timeout
- Language Modeling allows you to select Word case, Sentence case, Alphanumeric, and Punctuation
- Reco form allows you to select boxed, lined or unlined
- Dictionary influence allows you to select None, Advise, Force, Reject or Case force
- Symbol Set allows you to select Full, Lowercase, Digit, Punctuation, Uppercase, Monetary, Special and Math

Inks
The Inks tab specifies the type of inking that should occur within the control. You can set the following options:

- Style allows you to choose System or Window
- Width allows you to choose Default, Normal or Thick
- Color provides 18 colored boxes from which you can choose
- Line Type provides 8 boxes with lines from which to choose
- Mix allows you to choose Default, Or, Overpaint, Leave alone, Xor, And, Subtract, Mask src not, Zero, Not merge src, Not xor src, Invert, Merge src not, Not copy src, Merge not src, Not mask src, or One

Symbol Sets
Through the Symbol sets tab you can select which symbol sets the pen sub-system should use. The upper set of symbols is the Gesture set. You can select any combination of gestures to include within the symbol set. Likewise, you can select any combination of the character symbols that are found below the gestures.
Include/Exclude Regions
The Include/exclude regions tab defines the include region and exclude regions for the pen sub-system to use. The include region is defined as the entire display by default. You can define a smaller area (in dialog units) through the entry fields x , y, Width and Depth.

The exclude regions are defined for the controls that can receive input from the user. To define the controls that should be excluded, you can select the items within the list box. You can select more than one control to exclude at a time by using the list box extended selection techniques.