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    <p>How can I tell Windows not to do unhelpful pre-processing on tablet pen events?</p> <p>I am programming in Python 2.6, targetting tablet PCs running Windows 7 (though I would like my program to work with little modification on XP with a SMART interactive whiteboard, and for mouse users on Linux/Mac). I've written a program which hooks into the normal Windows mouse events, WM_MOUSEMOVE etc., and writes on a canvas.</p> <p>The problem is that the mouse messages are being fiddled with before they reach my application. I found that if I make long strokes and pause between strokes then the mouse messages are sent properly. But if I make several rapid short strokes, then something is doing unhelpful pre-processing. Specifically, if I make a down-stroke about 10 pixels long, and then make another downstroke about five pixels to the right of the first, then the second WM_MOUSEDOWN reports that it comes from exactly the same place as the first.</p> <p>This looks like some sort of pre-processing, perhaps so that naive applications don't get confused about double-clicks. But for my application, where I want very faithful response to rapid gestures, it's unhelpful.</p> <p>I found a reference to the MicrosoftTabletPenServiceProperty atom, and to CS_DBLCLKS window style, and I turned them both off with the following piece of Python code:</p> <pre><code>hwnd = self.GetHandle() tablet_atom = "MicrosoftTabletPenServiceProperty" atom_ID = windll.kernel32.GlobalAddAtomA(tablet_atom) windll.user32.SetPropA(hwnd,tablet_atom,1) currentstyle = windll.user32.GetClassLongA(hwnd, win32con.GCL_STYLE) windll.user32.SetClassLongA(hwnd, win32con.GCL_STYLE, currentstyle &amp; ~win32con.CS_DBLCLKS) </code></pre> <p>But it has no effect.</p> <p>I tried writing a low-level hook for the mouse driver, with SetWindowsHookEx, but it doesn't work -- obviously the mouse messages are being pre-processed even before they are sent to my low-level Windows hook.</p> <p>I would be very grateful for advice about how to turn off this pre-processing. I do not want to switch to RealTimeStylus -- first because it won't work on Windows XP plus SMART interactive whiteboard, second because I can't see how to use RealTimeStylus in CPython, so I would need to switch to IronPython, and then my code would no longer run on Linux/Mac.</p> <p>Damon.</p>
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    1. COI have no idea on the answer, but I'd suggest some more tags, like Windows-7, or whatever seems more appropriate to you. Except for finding a Python interface to RealTimeStylus, this doesnt' involve much Python; and maybe even you'd want to break off this Python part into a separate question, as more people will read one sentence than thirty. (Though I might be wrong here so make your own more informed choice.)
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    2. COIt wouldn't make sense to filter for double-clicks--apps don't examine multiple MOUSEDOWN events to detect double-clicks; that's what WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK, etc. are for. I don't know what's up, but for diagnostics I'd suggest seeing if this happens with a mouse; see it it happens in XP; log WM_MOUSEMOVE events as well as WM_MOUSEDOWN events and see if anything stands out; see if there's anything similar to XP's "enhance pointer precision" setting somewhere in Win7's scrambled, useless control panels.
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