When I use my tablet docked, it's inconvenient to flip it to table
mode and write on it up in the dock. I've noticed a few reference to
wacom tablets here.

Will a wacom tablet interface to a tablet PC, and then work just like
the real tablet face?

Thanks,

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com

What are you doing to "flip it to Tablet mode"? My M1300 docked is always
in "Tablet mode" since it is a Tablet PC. I'm trying to understand what
you're attempting to do, or maybe why. 8-)
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Ron Jeffries" <ronjeffries@acm.org> wrote in message
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> When I use my tablet docked, it's inconvenient to flip it to table
> mode and write on it up in the dock. I've noticed a few reference to
> wacom tablets here.
>
> Will a wacom tablet interface to a tablet PC, and then work just like
> the real tablet face?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Jeffries
> www.XProgramming.com

Ron Jeffries wrote:
> When I use my tablet docked, it's inconvenient to flip it to table
> mode and write on it up in the dock. I've noticed a few reference to
> wacom tablets here.
>
> Will a wacom tablet interface to a tablet PC, and then work just like
> the real tablet face?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Jeffries
> www.XProgramming.com


Anytime one says "yes" to hardware questions there will always be an
exception, but assuming you mean portrait mode by tablet mode then yes I
have used wacom tablets on a tablet pc in that orientation.

Ron, since you're used to a Tablet PC, you might find a wacom tablet a bit
cumbersome. You write on the screen and it shows on the monitor. Not quite
as simple as writing on your Tablet and seeing it immediately right where
you want it.
--

Terri Stratton
Microsoft Featured Community
http://thetabletpc.net
Editor/Owner
http://writepc.net
Microsoft Windows MVP- Tablet PC


"Ron Jeffries" <ronjeffries@acm.org> wrote in message
news:6t91u2tmbpv3u8oi50rc2hfeol6uggma10@4ax.com...
> When I use my tablet docked, it's inconvenient to flip it to table
> mode and write on it up in the dock. I've noticed a few reference to
> wacom tablets here.
>
> Will a wacom tablet interface to a tablet PC, and then work just like
> the real tablet face?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Jeffries
> www.XProgramming.com

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:00:19 -0800, "Chris H." <winxpnews********.com>
wrote:

>What are you doing to "flip it to Tablet mode"? My M1300 docked is always
>in "Tablet mode" since it is a Tablet PC. I'm trying to understand what
>you're attempting to do, or maybe why. 8-)

When I doc it, I doc it open like a laptop. If I flip it to tablet
mode, folded flat, then the auxiliary screen flips upside down, making
it really hard to read and mouse in keyboard mode.

I'd like to be able to write, type, and actually read on my aux
monitor, all at the very same time!

Thanks,

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:36:56 -0500, xTenn
<xTenn_removethispart@tds.net> wrote:

>Ron Jeffries wrote:
>> When I use my tablet docked, it's inconvenient to flip it to table
>> mode and write on it up in the dock. I've noticed a few reference to
>> wacom tablets here.
>>
>> Will a wacom tablet interface to a tablet PC, and then work just like
>> the real tablet face?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ron Jeffries
>> www.XProgramming.com
>
>
>Anytime one says "yes" to hardware questions there will always be an
>exception, but assuming you mean portrait mode by tablet mode then yes I
>have used wacom tablets on a tablet pc in that orientation.

To clarify ... in the docking station the tablet is typically open,
like a laptop. I view on a separate monitor plugged into the station,
and type on a separate keyboard. Big, beautiful, all is good.

If I fold the tablet down into tablet shape (It's a Toshiba M400, I
should have mentioned that), it'll stay in landscape, which is the
mode I prefer, but the external monitor flips upside down, with the
tablet picture. And I want the tablet picture to flip, because
otherwise IT would be upside down and hard to write on.

I have found no way to flip the external picture back up, while
leaving the tablet picture correct (i.e. with the bottom of the
picture at the bottom of the keyboard).

So I was thinking that maybe, at great expense, I could lash a
separate WACOM with LCD into the system and write on it, while leaving
the table and the aux monitor upright and visible.

This may not as yet be clear, but I'm trying ... ;->

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:47:06 -0800, "terri" <terri@no.mvps.spam.org>
wrote:

>Ron, since you're used to a Tablet PC, you might find a wacom tablet a bit
>cumbersome. You write on the screen and it shows on the monitor. Not quite
>as simple as writing on your Tablet and seeing it immediately right where
>you want it.

Yes, I was thinking of one of the expensie ones with the LCD in it.

Or maybe I should figure out a way to VNC or something to my other
tablet ...

Or mount the external monitor upside down ... I wonder how hard it
would be to take it apart ...

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com

I use a wacom with my tablet - some clients are more comfortable signing with
that form factor. I also use the wacom instead of a mousen docked and use it
on another laptop - making onenote more friendly on the traditional laptop.

I also plug it in to a desktop - I just like it - go for it.

"Ron Jeffries" wrote:

> When I use my tablet docked, it's inconvenient to flip it to table
> mode and write on it up in the dock. I've noticed a few reference to
> wacom tablets here.
>
> Will a wacom tablet interface to a tablet PC, and then work just like
> the real tablet face?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Jeffries
> www.XProgramming.com
>