Pen Kernel Functions

As described in Chapter 1, the services of the Pen API are provided by the libraries PENWIN.DLL and PKPD.DLL. PENWIN.DLL is provided by original equipment manufacturers and exists only on systems with attached pen hardware. The ink management services of PKPD.DLL, however, are part of Windows 95. This allows an application to display and manipulate ink data with any installation of Windows 95, even one without pen hardware.

The following table lists the 41 Pen API functions exported by PKPD. If an application detects Windows 95 without PENWIN.DLL, it can still use these functions to display, examine, alter, and compress existing ink data.

AddInksetInterval

AddPointsPenData

BeginEnumStrokes

BoundingRectFromPoints

CompactPenData

CompressPenData

CreateInkset

CreatePenData

CreatePenDataEx

CreatePenDataRegion

DestroyInkset

DestroyPenData