FREPenTablet

This AIR Native Extension allows you to read pressure sensitivity data from a pen tablet. It’s only been tested on Windows 7 with a Wacom Intuos 4.

Contents:

• FREPenTablet - A Visual C++ 2010 Express project which contains the native code.
• PenTabletLib - A Flash Builder project for exposing an API to the native code in ActionScript.
• PenTabletDemo - A sample Flash Builder project which uses the extension to draw with pressure.
• Batch files, so you don’t have to use the command line
• All intermediate files, so you don't have to compile everything yourself.

Requirements:

• Visual C++ 2010 Express
• AIR 3 SDK from Adobe Labs
• Flash Builder 4

The project contains some placeholder files that I cannot include in the repository because they are copyrighted by Adobe. After checking out the project, you need to:

• Replace FREPenTablet/FREPenTablet/FlashRuntimeExtensions.h with AIR_SDK/include/FlashRuntimeExtensions.h
• Replace FREPenTablet/FREPenTablet/FlashRuntimeExtensions.lib with AIR_SDK/lib/win/FlashRuntimeExtensions.lib

Now that everything is setup, you can try compiling everything yourself.

1. Open FREPenTablet/FREPenTablet.sln in Visual C++ 2010
2. Build the .dll (F7)
3. Import PenTabletLib into Flash Builder
4. Build the .swc (Ctrl + B)
5. Open the .swc with a .zip editor, and extract library.swf to the same folder as the .swc
6. Build the .ane (run PenTabletLib/bin/package.bat)
7. Import PenTabletDemo into Flash Builder
8. Build the .swf (Ctrl + B)
9. Build the .exe (run PenTabletLib/bin-debug/package.bat)
10. If everything was successful, you can draw on the stage with pressure sensitivity!