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Re: graphic Tablet

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From: ADS
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 00:00
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If you're easy in VB there's an example in VB...

there's also a OCX at http://hjem.get2net.dk/GeWare/Index.htm
it's done for VB, but I don't know it it can run with delphi.

bye

Armindo.


> In article <8g2ptu$dsq$1@wanadoo.fr>, ADS <armindo.da-silva@wanadoo.fr>
> writes
> >the solution is probably more easy than you think, because many tablet
are
> >provided with WinTab.dll, the "only" thing to do is to import function
from
> >this DLL, so the main job is to translate Wintab.h to wintab.pas, the
with
> >this unit call all function imbeded into the library.
> >I don't know nothing in C, so I can't do this.
> >But if you find a solution let me know.
>
> I don't know C either but even when that is done, you have to understand
> the entire wintab spec which involves setting up all sorts of message
> procedures- there is no easy way to just get the pressure values (not
> that I could see anyway). The spec is written in such a way that if you
> don't know C, you haven't got a chance.
>
> What I'm looking for is someone that can write a simple callable DLL
> that returns the pressure value of the pen. I'm not even looking for it
> free, I'm writing commercial software and prepared to pay. Maybe it just
> can't be done !
>
> Regards
> --
> Dave Peters
> DP Software
> Software for needlework
> +44 (0)1454 612598
> www.dpsoftware.co.uk
> www.stitches.co.uk
> www.ukmalls.co.uk
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Subject: Re: graphic Tablet
Date: 2000/05/19
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