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#Summa

    20-Jan-93 18:09:18
Sb: #32819-#Summa
Fm: Yost Group 76702,413
To: CSA/CA 76077,2774
When we were working on 3DSr2, we realized that we needed to be a lot more flexible in dealing with digitizers, and we put quite a bit of work into r2 to make it compatible with DGPADI (digitizing/pointing device) drivers. That was _supposed_ to make it easy for tablet manufacturers to write DGPADI drivers that worked correctly in 3DSr2. Unfortunately, I don't think any of the tablet manufacturers have put any specific energy into supporting 3DS as of yet. Oh well… Animator Pro is another story. The IDR (input device driver) interface in that program was developed by Jim Kent to make it possible to write drivers externally for pointing devices, but the IDR format wasn't made widely available enough to do any good. I've passed on all the information I've gotten about problems with AAP and pointing devices to Jim, and I hope he'll have some success in dealing with it. – G