I have a Windows Tablet machine, running XP Tablet Edition, and I want to access the stylus data from Python.
If anyone has done this themselves, I'd be very grateful for a description of what worked. Otherwise, I'd be grateful for advice. I'm in way over my head, so what I describe below is probably full of errors. I managed to access the stylus data successfully from C#, using a .net object called RealTimeStylus, contained in Microsoft.Ink.dll, which was located in c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\ink. The documentation says that this .net object uses an underlying COM object, so I hoped to be able to access the COM object from within Python. First, I used a .net disassembler to inspect Microsoft.Ink.dll, and I discovered that it uses this command to create the COM object: Guid clsid = new Guid("{DECBDC16-E824-436e-872D-14E8C7BF7D8B}"); Guid iid = new Guid("{C6C77F97-545E-4873-85F2-E0FEE550B2E9}"); string licenseKey = "{CAAD7274-4004-44e0-8A17-D6F1919C443A}"; ComObjectCreator.CreateInstanceLicense(clsid, iid, licenseKey); I looked up this clsid in my registry, and discovered that it refers to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\INK\inkobj.dll (This file also exists on my standard XP machine, which also ran my C# program happily.) Now, I want to somehow access this COM object from within Python. I tried MakePy, but I didn't know what type library to specify. I found something called "Microsoft Tablet PC Type Library, version 1.0 (1.0)", and it generated a .py file from type library 'inkobj.dll', but this file doesn't say anything about a RealTimeStylus. I tried looking for a Python command to CreateInstance, but I couldn't find one where I could specify the license string. Without the license string I ended up with the error message "Class is not licensed for use". I have no idea what to do next. Damon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list