[dba-VB] Using VBTablet.dll With vb.net

Thanks Doug, any help is very much appreciated, it also gave me a couple
more different ideas.

On 15 July 2010 19:23, Doug Murphy <dw-murphy at cox.net> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> A tablet running Windows tablet PC have the dll's installed natively. There
> are lots of examples of using the ImageEdit and ImagePicture controls on
> the
> internet. In fact if you download the TabletPC SDK there are many examples
> of using it with .NET apps. Have not heard of the .flg file, it must have
> something to do with the application installer. For a start look at
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa813329.aspx. I know this
> doesn't
> answer your question, but it may give you a leed on where to look.
>
> Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hartland
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 4:02 AM
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> Subject: [dba-VB] Using VBTablet.dll With vb.net
>
> To all,
>
> I have a wacom signature tablet, and we have a piece of code that allows
> our
> employees to make digital signatures, but dont seem to be able to get it
> working.
>
> The application looks for a flag file (just empty text file called
> Update.flg) and if it doesn't exist the application runs a bat file copying
> & registering the VBTablet.dll and WinTab32.dll into their windows\system32
> directory, then asks the user to close the application and re-run it.
>
> However when anyone tried to run it, they get the message that no tablet
> devices are detected on the system.
>
> I have been working with our helpdesk, using clean laptop images and still
> cant get it to work for some reason.  Has anyone out their had experience
> of
> using the VBTablet.dll with a vb.net application, if so could you give me
> some pointers on what I may be doing wrong etc.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help on this, as it is becoming a real headache.
>
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