I have just gotten an HP Pavilion tx2513 Tablet PC to replace my old Toshiba
Portégé M200. I have a couple of programs... PenOffice 3.0 and Paint Shop
Pro X2... that do not pay attention to screen orientation or rotation. No
matter what the screen does, those two programs act as though the screen was
in Primary Portrait orientation, and the pointer moves accordingly. No other
application I have used exhibits this behavior, and these two applications
handled orientation and rotation correctly on the Toshiba.

Microsoft Vista Ultimate SP1 with all updates. AMD Athol 64 3200+ 2.0 GHz
CPU, 3 GB RAM, >350 GB free disk space.

Advice and solutions greatly appreciated.

/Bruce/

In message <OBHzqyMfJHA.1172@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, Bruce Wheelock
<BruceWheelock@comcast.net> writes
>I have just gotten an HP Pavilion tx2513 Tablet PC to replace my old
>Toshiba Portégé M200. I have a couple of programs... PenOffice 3.0 and
>Paint Shop Pro X2... that do not pay attention to screen orientation or
>rotation. No matter what the screen does, those two programs act as
>though the screen was in Primary Portrait orientation, and the pointer
>moves accordingly. No other application I have used exhibits this
>behavior, and these two applications handled orientation and rotation
>correctly on the Toshiba.
>
>Microsoft Vista Ultimate SP1 with all updates. AMD Athol 64 3200+ 2.0
>GHz CPU, 3 GB RAM, >350 GB free disk space.
>
>Advice and solutions greatly appreciated.
>
>/Bruce/

Bruce,

I don't have a solution, but the problem is probably that the
misbehaving programs are dependent on the Wintab API. I would guess that
they are older programs developed before the HID API became general.

I had a similar problem a year or so ago with the GIMP drawing program,
which uses the Wintab API to deal with tablets. The Wacom drivers for XP
tablet edition (not the Microsoft ones which rotated properly but had
no pressure sensitivity) supported screen rotation in the HID API, but
did not implement rotation in the Wintab API .

The latest Wacom drivers for the XP tablet fixed this problem, and
programs using both Wintab and HID API's rotate fine.

I don't really use Vista on my tablet, but I suspect your pavilion has
an HP tablet driver that implements the HID interface properly ( and
which all your more recent programs use) but does not implement rotation
for the Wintab API.

If the machine uses a WACOM digitiser try downloading the latest Tablet
drivers from WACOM. This might however break the touch screen if your
machine provides that - so beware.

Regards
--
Invalid