With most art tablets, just putting the pen to the tablet doesn't do anything, it just makes a hover cursor. hitting a different button actually enables the pen to "draw"


has anyone developed a similar system for the light pen? I'm not really looking for anything fancy.

basically the setup i'm looking for is this; IR pen on = motion tracking only, no left or right click. Pressing the right ctrl or right alt key activates left and right click respectively.

this way, with one hand on your keyboard and one hand on the pen, you can make a virtual tablet on ANY surface (i just have a square piece of white paper taped to my desk right now)



or.... does this already exist? i haven't fiddled much with Smoothboard so maybe this functionality is already there

Toolbar requires that you click on it, which isn't what I'm looking for

outside screen toggles have the same problem

However that second wiimote function IS what I'm looking for....but is it possible to do that, but using keyboard keys instead of wiimote button presses?

also, ben, you don't really need to address everyone directly in each of your posts :3

Hoaxjak

Under Smoothboard cursor control, there is an option for Cursor motion only. With this the pointer arrow would follow your always ON ir led.  You can then use the mouse for the left and right click.

Hope that helps

Hagoh