Hello,
I'm trying to develop software in C# using Cintiq 12.
I want to use the pen as a 3D pointer.
I have seen that TabletPC SDK is needed (which includes
Microsoft.ink).
The problem is that Microsoft.ink detects the tablet like a mouse and
only recognize the X Y information. (The package length is 2)
The tablet works perfect with Photoshop (high resolution XY, pressure
and tilt) but I cant obtain the same information when I try to develop
software.

Reading some posts I've found on internet (via Google) I have read
that Virtual HID Driver is needed, but it's only released by wacom in
driver version "PenTablet_495-6.exe" or lower. Cintiq uses version
6.05-7(last version released) and I don't want to downgrade it.

Could I obtain the Virtual HID Driver in some other way?

Is this driver the cause of my problem? or is there another solution?
Exists an alternative to Microsoft.ink?

I also have read about Wintab in some post, but this solution is
written in C++, not C#.NET

Thanks

Tablet:Wacom Cintiq 12wx
O.S.:Windows XP SP2
Dev Soft: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 v8.0.50727.42
Platform: Microsoft .Net Framework v2.0.50727

<mario.morales.moreno******.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hello,
> I'm trying to develop software in C# using Cintiq 12.
> I want to use the pen as a 3D pointer.
> I have seen that TabletPC SDK is needed (which includes
> Microsoft.ink).
> The problem is that Microsoft.ink detects the tablet like a mouse and
> only recognize the X Y information. (The package length is 2)
> The tablet works perfect with Photoshop (high resolution XY, pressure
> and tilt) but I cant obtain the same information when I try to develop
> software.
>
> Reading some posts I've found on internet (via Google) I have read
> that Virtual HID Driver is needed, but it's only released by wacom in
> driver version "PenTablet_495-6.exe" or lower. Cintiq uses version
> 6.05-7(last version released) and I don't want to downgrade it.
>
> Could I obtain the Virtual HID Driver in some other way?
> Is this driver the cause of my problem?

I have read in Wacom's forum
http://www.wacom-europe.com/forum/default.asp?lang=en
that Wacom has removed support for / detection of the
Tablet-PC SDK upon explicit request by Microsoft.

I suppose this is in order to *prevent* people from using
the Tablet-PC SDK the way you intend to do. Microsoft
want's you to migrate from XP to Vista, that is.
(That wouldn't be too bad if only Vista worked as well
as XP does.)

> or is there another solution?

Buy Vista, perhaps? (But it must be a version of Vista
better than Vista Home Basic.)