Can one convince Vista to interpret a pen move with the mouse button
pressed (i.e. in my case the equivalent of a mouse move with the right
mouse button pressed) as a scroll command?

I once had a utility for Win98 back then that would allow me to scroll
in each application by simply moving the mouse with a pressed right
button. This was very convenient and intuitive, but alas that program
didn't work with XP any more. IMHO something like that would be
extremely handy for a tablet, where I find hitting the scroll bars to
scroll rather tedious. A few applications have that functionality
built-in but I would like to have that for ALL apps.

Does Vista (Business / tablet edition) support something like that
natively? Or does anyone know a utility that allows this?

Michael

Don't have an answer for your specific question, but, know that if your
tablet has a fingerprint reader, that can be used to scroll windows.

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
> Don't have an answer for your specific question, but, know that if
> your tablet has a fingerprint reader, that can be used to scroll
> windows.

Hi Beverly,


yes, mine has indeed such a feature, but the scrolling using that is
rather shaky and extremely unprecise. Using the pen (at least, that's my
conviction) would be much quicker and better.

Michael

"Michael Moser" <michael-nospam.moser@nospam.freesurf.ch> wrote in message
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> Can one convince Vista to interpret a pen move with the mouse button
> pressed (i.e. in my case the equivalent of a mouse move with the right
> mouse button pressed) as a scroll command?
>
> I once had a utility for Win98 back then that would allow me to scroll in
> each application by simply moving the mouse with a pressed right button.
> This was very convenient and intuitive, but alas that program didn't work
> with XP any more. IMHO something like that would be extremely handy for a
> tablet, where I find hitting the scroll bars to scroll rather tedious. A
> few applications have that functionality built-in but I would like to have
> that for ALL apps.
>
> Does Vista (Business / tablet edition) support something like that
> natively? Or does anyone know a utility that allows this?

Pen Flicks can scroll vertically - I'm not sure if they can be configured to
scroll horizontally as by default that performs back and forward. Just
quickly swipe the pen up or down.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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>> Using the pen (at least, that's my conviction) would be much quicker
and better. <<

Agreed, but, if you are using the pen, why would pulling the scroll
button not be an easy option?

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

Paul Smith wrote:
> >...
> Pen Flicks can scroll vertically - I'm not sure if they can be
> configured to scroll horizontally as by default that performs back
> and forward. Just quickly swipe the pen up or down.

Yeah - I have tried these. They are OK for stuff that's vertically
organized into pages (like some Word or PDF document), but when it comes
to drawing or designing diagrams being able to quickly "grab the paper"
and moving it almost as quick as drawing a line is much quicker.
MindManager (by MindJet) e.g. supports that and that's simply terrific!

Michael

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:06:44 +0100, Michael Moser wrote:

[Pen Flicks]

> Yeah - I have tried these. They are OK for stuff that's vertically
> organized into pages (like some Word or PDF document), but when it comes
> to drawing or designing diagrams being able to quickly "grab the paper"
> and moving it almost as quick as drawing a line is much quicker.
> MindManager (by MindJet) e.g. supports that and that's simply terrific!

Wacom Intuos3 Tablet driver supports assigning Pan/Scroll to their pen
buttons.

--
Rom

Rom wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:06:44 +0100, Michael Moser wrote:
>
> ...
> Wacom Intuos3 Tablet driver supports assigning Pan/Scroll to their pen
> buttons.

Hm, that sounds like an idea!

Does anyone by chance know: can one use that driver also for a
MotionComputing LE1700 tablet?
From hear-say its screen is also supposed to be a Wacom thingy (or
"Wacom-technology-based or whatever).

Michael

Rom wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:06:44 +0100, Michael Moser wrote:
>
> [Pen Flicks]
>
>> Yeah - I have tried these. They are OK for stuff that's vertically
>> organized into pages (like some Word or PDF document), but when it
>> comes to drawing or designing diagrams being able to quickly "grab
>> the paper" and moving it almost as quick as drawing a line is much
>> quicker. MindManager (by MindJet) e.g. supports that and that's
>> simply terrific!
>
> Wacom Intuos3 Tablet driver supports assigning Pan/Scroll to their pen
> buttons.

This turned out to be not such a good idea. After installation of the
latest Wacom driver the pen was gone and I couldn't get it to work no
matter what I tried. :-(
I am right now doing a System Restore to the last restore point and hope
that will get me the pen back.

So, apparently the Intuos and the MotionComputing tablet drivers should
not be mixed - at least not without better understanding what one is
doing...

Michael