Hi,

I want to program a small "ruler application" for my TPC. This application
should be a virtual ruler that can be placed anywhere on the screen. When
the user wants to to draw a *straight* line in any application (Quicknotes,
OneNote, Journal, ...) he just writes a line along the ruler and my
application then makes automatically a staight line.

I did this successfully using ordinary mouse data using ClipCursor in MFC:

ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE(UWM_MOUSEMSG, OnRuler)

LRESULT CrulerDlg::OnRuler(WPARAM, LPARAM lParam)
{
if(lParam)
{
RECT rc;
GetWindowRect(&rc);
ClipCursor(&rc);
}
else
{
ClipCursor(NULL);
}
return 0;
}

But this works *only* for the mouse, for stylus data this is ignored :-(

Now I'm searching for a possibility to *globally* hook into stylus data and
modify it on-the-fly.

It would be great if it would work with C++ and MFC.


Thank you,
Peter

Hi Peter,
Have you tried using the COM version of RealTimeStylus?
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...83(VS.85).aspx

Thanks,
Amber

"Peter Mairhofer" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to program a small "ruler application" for my TPC. This application
> should be a virtual ruler that can be placed anywhere on the screen. When
> the user wants to to draw a *straight* line in any application (Quicknotes,
> OneNote, Journal, ...) he just writes a line along the ruler and my
> application then makes automatically a staight line.
>
> I did this successfully using ordinary mouse data using ClipCursor in MFC:
>
> ON_REGISTERED_MESSAGE(UWM_MOUSEMSG, OnRuler)
>
> LRESULT CrulerDlg::OnRuler(WPARAM, LPARAM lParam)
> {
> if(lParam)
> {
> RECT rc;
> GetWindowRect(&rc);
> ClipCursor(&rc);
> }
> else
> {
> ClipCursor(NULL);
> }
> return 0;
> }
>
> But this works *only* for the mouse, for stylus data this is ignored :-(
>
> Now I'm searching for a possibility to *globally* hook into stylus data and
> modify it on-the-fly.
>
> It would be great if it would work with C++ and MFC.
>
>
> Thank you,
> Peter
>
>
>

=?Utf-8?B?QW1iZXIgUC4gUmFjZQ==?= <AmberPRace@discussions.microsoft.com>
dixit:
> Hi Peter,
> Have you tried using the COM version of RealTimeStylus?
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...83(VS.85).aspx

Hi,

Thank you for your answer. No, I haven't tried it yet but till now I tought
it was not possible to modify ink stream from *another* application (e.g.
journal, OneNote, ...).

Do you think it's possible with it?

Peter

RTS won't work globally, but you could try getting the stylus points as Raw
Input and generating a user message for your app.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...36(VS.85).aspx

Thanks,
Amber

"Peter Mairhofer" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?QW1iZXIgUC4gUmFjZQ==?= <AmberPRace@discussions.microsoft.com>
> dixit:
> > Hi Peter,
> > Have you tried using the COM version of RealTimeStylus?
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...83(VS.85).aspx
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for your answer. No, I haven't tried it yet but till now I tought
> it was not possible to modify ink stream from *another* application (e.g.
> journal, OneNote, ...).
>
> Do you think it's possible with it?
>
> Peter
>
>
>