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My Wiimote whiteboard works awesome! Except in Microsoft OneNote & Powerpoint (Office 2007) when using the 'Pen' function

I can:
   Click & drag notes
   Draw lines
   Draw shapes
   Control objects

I cannot:
   Write with a pen!!! in either Powerpoint & Onenote

What the problem looks like on screen:
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Running XP pro fully updated inc service pack 3

I can write with my normal mouse & Wicom grapics tablet.

When I use the IR-Pen it registers a dot on first click, the cursor tracks with pen movements during hold click (without drawing a line) and a dot on click release?

Has anyone else had similar problems? Or any ideas for a fix, Onenote is the perfect whiteboard program for teachers, I'm really keen to use.

What I have found out:
- Works perfectly at home on my desktop runing Home XP & Office 2007
- Same effect when used with Jason's Presenter App
- Performed Office repair, no success
- Removed and reloaded Office 2007
- Tried disabling different HID's in 'Hardware Manager' no effect (except when disabled relievent HID's)
- The HID's that stop the Wiimote are: "Bluetooth Vertual HID Keyboard" & "HID Complient Game Controller"
- I have updated all the HID drivers using 'Hardware Manager' no effect
- Tried using Blue Soli on this laptop - no effect

I tried on a another identical laptop - same issue

I think my problem is:
In Onenote/Powerpoint Pen functions there appears to be a communication problem between the HID device and Onenote???

benpaddlejones

n.b. I moved this post from Whiteboard Support as I think this is a question for the really smart tech dudes!

try with above solution - I don't use Onenote so I cannot try this at all I'm afraid

//UndCon

it depends on where you are talking about making a permanent change at. if you got the code from Johnny's page, then its doubtful that he will update with these little fixes since his page is more of a technology guide, or example rather than a version that should be used mainstream. he left it up to the community to see how he did things and make your own creations.

I suppose you could go to one of the opensource project pages and request a bug there but i have not kept track of where all those projects are