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So what is your specific problem? &nbsp; And is there a picture that your tracing on.
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So what is your specific problem?   And is there a picture that your tracing on.

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I suggest starting from here &nbsp;<a href="http://www.greenreaper.co.uk/#VBTablet" rel="ugc">http://www.greenreaper.co.uk/#VBTablet</a><br />
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VBTablet is ActiveX control that would allow access to your graphic Tablet from VB application<br />
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I suggest starting from here  http://www.greenreaper.co.uk/#VBTablet [http://www.greenreaper.co.uk/#VBTablet]

VBTablet is ActiveX control that would allow access to your graphic Tablet from VB application




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Thank you Michael D, VBTablet good place to start although I will need to take a few extra strong Guru tablets to understand the code!! Will get back to you in a while.....
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Thank you Michael D, VBTablet good place to start although I will need to take a few extra strong Guru tablets to understand the code!! Will get back to you in a while.....

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I looked at VBTablet and yes it will work but before I go down that route. I need to store the image as a bitmap. Then at a later date read in the shape &nbsp;and find height,width and longest diagonal from the bitmap. So I was thinking of using VB drawmode in a simple way to make a bitmap and wonderd how to interrogate a simple 2D bitmap shape?
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I looked at VBTablet and yes it will work but before I go down that route. I need to store the image as a bitmap. Then at a later date read in the shape  and find height,width and longest diagonal from the bitmap. So I was thinking of using VB drawmode in a simple way to make a bitmap and wonderd how to interrogate a simple 2D bitmap shape?

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Thank you for your help. I am still searching for a easier solution at the moment.
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Thank you for your help. I am still searching for a easier solution at the moment.

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I want to trace around wooden 2D shapes less than 4&quot; square using a graphic tablet. I want to write a VB program to record the shape. Then calculate its dimensions height, width, centre point, longest diagonal. 
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I want to trace around wooden 2D shapes less than 4" square using a graphic tablet. I want to write a VB program to record the shape. Then calculate its dimensions height, width, centre point, longest diagonal. 

Simple 2D Shape Drawing program

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