Livescribe PenComm Library

The PenComm Library enables a desktop application to communicate with smartpens attached to the desktop computer. Use it for the following:

• connecting to a smartpen attached to the desktop computer
• handling the smartpen attach and detach events
• transferring penlet data or AFD data from a smartpen to a ZIP file on the desktop computer
• retrieving a list of penlets and AFDs that have data changes since a specified time
• querying the status of smartpen hardware (including the RTC, or Real Time Clock)
• implementing the data callback so that your desktop application can receive new data asynchronously from a smartpen
• sending commands to the smartpen.

Livescribe PenData Library

The Pen Data Library enables a desktop application to manipulate the data that is transferred from the smartpen. Use it for the following:

• accesing non-stroke penlet data from a ZIP on the desktop computer
• accessing AFD page data (including strokes, regions, and images) from a ZIP file on the desktop computer
• merging the data from several ZIP files of transferred data
• creating an AFD programmatically
• creating a desktop viewer application for displaying AFDs.

The Livescribe PenData Library consists of two layers:

• Livescribe.DesktopSDK.PenData

  This is the high-level wrapper that provides convenience classes for accessing the penlet data or AFDs contained in a ZIP file on the desktop computer. For most common tasks, you will use this layer.

• Livescribe.DesktopSDK.AFP

  This is the low-level wrapper, which directly wraps the native APIs that provide complete access to AFDs. You will use this layer primarily for optimization and efficient data access, although all desktop application tasks can be perfomed via this low-level wrapper.

Note: This HTML-based help reference contains separate indexes for the PenComm Library and the PenData Library. Click on the Index button on any HTML page to go to the index for the current library. Classes and their members for the AFP layer can be found in the PenData Library index.