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JWinTab 1.0

Author: Jun Rekimoto, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.

This library is LGPL (lesser GPL) (rekimoto 2005.4.20)

Nov 14, 2000.

Description

This package, called JWintab is a very simple JNI (Java Native Interface) layer to the tablet library called WINTAB. Wintab is a de-fact standard library on Windows and many tablet venders including WACOM support this interface. JWintab is a very simple interface to Wintab (it is essentially one single method) for allowing Java programmer to use WACOM tablets. This package was developed as a part of the ToolStone project at Sony Computer Science Laboratory. We distribute this package as open-source software, without any support or documentation beyond this file and the source code itself.

download

jwintab01.zip

Requirements

• Windows 98
  (it should also work on Windows 2000 or WindowsXP, but untested)
• A Wintab enabled tablet driver must be installed.
  (Please refer www.wacom.com for further information on Wintab). A quick way to check this is to search the file "wintab.dll" or "wintab32.dll" under the windows folders.
• Java 1.2 or later

Installation

Copy jwintab.dll Jwintab.class to your directory. Also copy WintabTest.java (a test program) and compile & run it.

files:

• jwintab.dll -- a DLL
• Jwintab.java -- JNT interface description
• Wintab.java -- a test program
• *.c -- source programs

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