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JTablet v0.9.5 Released!
May 24th, 2005, 5:59pm  
Just posting to let you guys know that JTablet v0.9.5 has been released.  This is a Java library that gives full access to tablet information in a Java-centric format.  

The main advantage to JTablet is that it can be used within applets once the user downloads and installs the tiny plugin (Lascaux Sketch on 2draw.net and Oekaki Shi-Painter featured on a number of sites are prime examples).

Download the latest plugin and SDK here:
http://www.cellosoft.com/sketchstudio/

JTablet is currently only available for Windows machines, but the source is cross-platform compatible and some work has been done on a Linux port.  Anyone interested in contributing Mac or Linux ports is welcome.  Information on porting is included in the SDK/c++src/readme.txt file.

There is not currently a Processing-style library for JTablet but if anyone has suggestions for an interface style, a wrapper could quite trivially be made.

Anyway check it out, c&c welcome!

Marcello
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Re: JTablet v0.9.5 Released!
Reply #1 - May 24th, 2005, 7:11pm  
Wonderful!

I'm wondering if libraries like JTablet need a Processing wrapper. It might be easier for the developers (you in this case) to include a small instruction in the documentation about how to use the library with Processing. I could make a separate section from the Libraries reference page linking to related Java libraries. Right now I know of JTablet and one for Joystick. My understanding is these libraries are already so easy to use that introducing a Processing-style layer of abstraction might not be not necessary.

What do you think?
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Reply #2 - May 24th, 2005, 7:40pm  
I really couldn't say.  I was thinking a wrapper might be useful if people don't want to deal with the more advanced features such as custom cursor objects and whatnot.  Plus it could do stuff like auto-polling and perhaps do nifty things like events when the cursor changes or something.

But I do not have time at the moment to make something like that up, and as you say, whether or not it is even necessary is a good question.  It would be convenient to have it listed in the libraries menu though---at the very least.

Marcello
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