InkDesktopHost class

Implements the IInkDesktopHost interface.

An IInkDesktopHost object enables ink input, processing, and rendering through the creation of an app thread to host an IInkPresenterDesktop object and insert it into the app's DirectComposition visual tree.

Members

The InkDesktopHost class inherits from the IUnknown interface. InkDesktopHost also has these types of members:

The InkDesktopHost class has these methods.

Method	Description
CreateAndInitializeInkPresenter	Creates an IInkPresenterDesktop object on an application thread, connects it to the app's DirectComposition visual tree, and sets the size of the object.
CreateInkPresenter	Creates an IInkPresenterDesktop object on an application thread.
QueueWorkItem	Add an ink operation to a work queue for execution on the InkDesktopHost thread.

Use the following to retrieve a reference to the object:

[CoCreateInstance](/windows/win32/api/combaseapi/nf-combaseapi-cocreateinstance)

Call [CoCreateInstance](/windows/win32/api/combaseapi/nf-combaseapi-cocreateinstance) with the class identifier InkDesktopHost.

C++
`CoCreateInstance(__uuidof(InkDesktopHost), nullptr, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_PPV_ARGS(&_spInkHost));`


Minimum supported client	Windows 10 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	None supported
Header	InkPresenterDesktop.h
IDL	InkPresenterDesktop.idl
IID	IID_IInkDesktopHost is defined as 4ce7d875-a981-4140-a1ff-ad93258e8d59