Software idea

[calbear2000]

I haven't coded anything in years so bear with me...

I have an LCD tablet which I can draw on (either through the whiteboard in Netmeeting, or through Powerpoint, or through graphics apps which can take pen input). Anyway, its a $500 piece of equipment my boss bought me for some rough CAD work when working cross-site. It would be nice to have a software overlay which would enable me to draw on top of any Windows application. Then, I would basically have a $500 tablet pc!

I use Exceed a lot (for Cadence tools). I would love to use my LCD tablet to draw right on top of my Exceed window. Some kind of software overlay would enable this. Does anyone know if shareware like this exists? Or am I confusing everyone here?

Thanks

 

[Ameesh]

get a tablet pc

 

[calbear2000]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
get a tablet pc

Why? When my $500 LCD tablet and a simple software solution can do everything a tablet pc can do for my work?

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: calbear2000

Originally posted by: Ameesh
get a tablet pc

Why? When my $500 LCD tablet and a simple software solution can do everything a tablet pc can do for my work?

HAHAHA

 

[calbear2000]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: calbear2000

Originally posted by: Ameesh
get a tablet pc

Why? When my $500 LCD tablet and a simple software solution can do everything a tablet pc can do for my work?

HAHAHA

I guess that means you don't know

Next.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: calbear2000

Originally posted by: Ameesh
get a tablet pc

Why? When my $500 LCD tablet and a simple software solution can do everything a tablet pc can do for my work?

HAHAHA

he means if a software solution exists than it's much simplier (cheaper) than buying a brand new piece of hardware.

 

[calbear2000]

From a quick search through shareware, there's a lot of tools like this:

http://download.com.com/3000-2192-10239507.html?tag=lst-0-12

Sort of along the lines of what I'm envisioning. My LCD tablet can already function as a mouse on top of my desktop, so the virtual overlay capability is there.

Is there's nothing in the market like this, I'd love to work on it myself if I had the time...

 

[calbear2000]

This is EXACTLY what I'm looking for!

http://www.panic.com/desktastic/

But its for macs only

There's got to be a program for windows... Do macs application developpers outnumber windows programmers or something??

 

[calbear2000]

Is anyone enjoying the conversation I'm having with myself?

Perhaps this should be moved to the Software forum... more focused expertise and interest level

Mods, can you please move this? Sorry I didn't post there originally... forgot a software forum existed

 

[arcain]

If you're running XP on it, you can try running some Tablet PC programs on it. If you have an MSDN account you may have access to the Tablet PC edition of Windows XP, otherwise you can install the Tablet PC SDK which will allow you to use the Ink Controls and other functionality provided by the Tablet PC edition (except for input recognition).

Installing the above will not allow you to doodle wherever you want though, you'll need another program. You can try poking around http://www.tabletpcdeveloper.com/ . In particular, look under the User Samples section.