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- From: lastuka@acs.ucalgary.ca (Tina Lastuka)
- Subject: Graphics tablet coordinates
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 22:46:56 GMT
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- Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
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- I have ported a QuickBasic program from the Macintosh that measures
- bone lengths from hand x-rays using a digitizing pad. The problem that
- I am having is that on the macintosh, the program could read the
- coordinates fromt the digitizing tablet using the QuickBasic MOUSE
- function with a reasonable degree of accuracy. I have downloaded
- QBasic libraries from simtel that allow me to take coordinates from
- the tablet's mouse driver (I'm using QuickBasic 4.5 on my pc), but the
- resolution that I can achieve using this method is pathetic. The
- digitizing tablet that I am using is a Summagraphics Summasketch II
- Plus (connected to com1). It comes with a microsoft compatible mouse
- driver, as well as a program called mmtest.exe that prints a stream of
- xy coordinates and button positions to the screen.
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- I have ordered a technical manual from Summagraphics (this is the only
- help they would give), but if anyone has experience programming with a
- Summasketch tablet, I would appreciate any help you could give (I am
- not a programmer).
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- Please send email to: peter@ach.ucalgary.ca
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- Peter Faris
- Data Analyst
- Alberta Children's Hospital
- Calgary, Alberta
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