pds@entropy.UUCP (Paul Sampson) (07/28/86)
My apologizes if this request has appeared previously. I posted it (I thought) to net.micro.mac, but I didn't see it appear, so I'm trying again. I have a simple task in mind: digitizing (with reasonably high resolution) specific point coordinates located on a series of photographs or x-rays. I thought this would be simple with a digitizing tablet like MacTablet: I would simply write a Basic program to read in mouse/pen coordinates. However, on reading the Basic documentation I learned that the digitizing pen functionally replaces the mouse, and that (in Basic) coordinates can only be input at the pixel/bit-mapped level of resolution within windows. There must be a way to obtain coordinates at the level of resolution of the digitizer itself (something like 500 lines/in). I would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows how to handle (or has software for) this simple task. (A surprising number of people knowing something about MacTablet, including a sales rep, have been unable to help me so far.) Paul D. Sampson Dept. of Statistics Univ. of Washington