Hi, I've been looking at getting a graphics tablet but have a few questions I cant seem to find answers to on google, mainly about how it inputs onto the screen. For instance, I have a dual monitor setup and would only be drawing on one of the monitors at a time. Does the tablet show an image of both screens on its surface, and I'd just draw on the one monitor I wanted to on the tablet to have it come up on screen (hence basically wasting 50% of the tablets area)? Or is the tablet blank and its entire surface area represents the active window, hence if I had one window selected on just one monitor the tablets area would only represent that window? What about if the window is 50% of the screen size etc? Thanks, Ed.

Tablets have been around for quite awhile. usually they are touch screen machines that use a stylus to interact with the machine. PM9600(1 ghz G4) 512mb RAM 36gb SCSI ATi 9250 PCI

I mean a graphics tablet, not a tablet PC.

Look here: http://www.google.com/search?q=grap... "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

Does anybody even read the original post, already said I tried google. Computing.net has got a lot worse since tomshardware took over tbh.

"hence if I had one window selected on just one monitor the tablets area would only represent that window? That's correct. FWIW to XP users: When you click on the 'Command Prompt' you are just causing the 'Command prompt' to be displayed. This prompt gives you access to NTVDM.EXE, the 'NT Virtual DOS Manager'.

If you follow the link posted by Jennifer you will find all you want about graphics tablets. Three or four items down is a Wikipedia article that will give you a wealth of information of Graphics Tablets with once mentioning a Tablet PC. Graphics tablets do not represent or imitate or copy or do anything else with the screen. Graphics tablets interact with a CAD or graphics application and it is that which puts the information on the screen. The size of the screen or whether you have one or two is no more relevant than when using a word processor and a keyboard. It is the application that you are linking to the graphics tablet that matters. You appear to be working on the assumption that the graphics tablet communicates directly with the video hardware. It doesn't any more than a keyboard does. It has to go through a suitable application that can convert the information from the graphics table to something the video hardware can understand. Stuart