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Thursday, April 24, 2008

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Use Pen Attention To Show Your Cursor

Any teachers out there using their Tablet PC to present material to their class? Anyone do screen recordings where your pen gets lost? (I can see this working for us during InkShows). If so, there is a new program called Pen Attention and it's a free program to help your cursor get noticed. This small application sits in your system tray ready to be activated - or deactivated.

After lots of searching around for ways to change the pen cursor to no avail, I finally (after 5 years!) got the idea to make my own program to highlight the cursor. A few afternoons of hacking later, and the result is PenAttention v1.0. This program draws a circle highlight, pencil, or pointer at the location of the pen, when the pen is detected on the screen.

Only tested so far on WACOM - let us know if it works on others!! Thanks to Eliot for the heads up!

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4/24/2008 9:23 PM MST

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Friday, April 25, 2008 12:21:30 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks for the blog, it must be my lucky day to get links from GBM and JKOTR in the same day :-)

I think for highlighting the cursor in an inkshow I'd prefer using the normal cursor and then add the highlight to the recording using Camtasia's effects option. If there's a live audience though it was kind of ironic they couldn't see the cursor!

Kenrick

Friday, April 25, 2008 7:02:28 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Is there a way to change the color? What would be nice would be to have a mock laser pointer that would behave the way this does. I downloaded it a couple of days ago, but this is the last day of class, so I won't be able to try it out in class. But I will check it out for the fall. Thanks a lot for this.

Steven

Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:09:55 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

No way to change the color in the current version, but that will be easy to add... as well as a mock laser pointer (red or green? :-)

Kenrick

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