Introduction:
I have noticed a few requests from professors who
use Tablet PCs for a better way to convey the current
position of the pointer. Traditional overhead projectors
project the shadow of the hand & pen which allows students to
identify what the lecturer is pointing at or working on but
Windows Journal only provide a tiny indicating dot. The
dot/cursor is, for the most part, only useful or visible to the
writer because they know approximately where they're holding
their pen.
LecturePen is a tiny application I whipped up in
about 30minutes or so to display a picture of a pen that follows
the mouse.
The application is only one file (LecturePen.exe).
If you wish, you can replace the pen image with your own one by
placing a PNG image named "pen.png" into the same directory as
LecturePen.exe. The background of the PNG needs to be
transparent and you should avoid using any pure white colors (#FFFFFF).
Requirements:
- Windows XP or
Windows XP Tablet PC edition
- Microsoft .NET
framework version 1.1 (download
here)
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Download links:
Download
from Veridicus (273kb)
Download source code from
Veridicus
(Note that this is written in C# and is a bit of a hack
because it polls to get the mouse position. I plan to
rewrite it using system hooks in C++ like I've done with
LitepadFix)
And here's
a link to the default pen image in
case you wish to paint a logo or course name on the side
;-). Remember to name it "pen.png" and place it in the
same directory as LecturePen. Downloading the image is
not necessary if you don't want to customize the pen. |
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LecturePen is free
software.
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