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Thanks for your suggestions. I actually haven't disabled swapping. I
problematic behavior. Am I correct in assuming that the "-Xmx option"
the line drawing.
> I have a tablet too, but it's a different model. ImageJ works fine
> though. Unless you have a lot of free memory, disabling swapping is
> quite possibly a bad idea. Have you tried the -Xmx option to set the
> memory? For instance -Xmx500m to allow Java to use 500 megabytes of
> RAM.
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> Does it only fail when you use the stylus or does a mouse fail as
> well? Perhaps there's an issue with your tablet drivers.
>
> Justin
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> On 11/1/07, Toby Cornish <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Dear Jonathan:
>>
>> I do not have experience with the tablet model you own, but I have
>> used a touchscreen Fujitsu Lifebook extensively for marking up
>> images for analysis. It worked without a hitch. Probably this is a
>> problem specifically with your Thinkpad and ImageJ or Java.
>>
>> If you think that swapping is a problem, you could disable it and
>> see if that helps (sometimes it will). You could also try changing
>> the amount of memory that ImageJ has available. You can use the
>> ImageJ memory monitor (Plugins | Utilities | Memory Monitor) to
>> check up on memory usage, too.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> toby
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:38:25 -0400
>> From: Jonathan Rosenthal <
[hidden email]>
>> Subject: Problem using ImageJ with touch-screen tablet
>>
>> I've been trying unsuccessfully to use ImageJ on an IBM Thinkpad X41
>> tablet, in that soon after I touch the pen to the screen to draw some
>> necessary lines on scanned leaf images (in order to do assessments of
>> leaf area lost) I get an ImageJ error message saying that there's no
>> memory. In fact, the tablet has a gig of RAM, so the problem is
>> probably due to the relatively slow access to the hard drive, hindering
>> swapping. The OS is Windows XP tablet edition 2005 (version 2002)
>> Service Pack 2. Have any of you had similar problems using ImageJ with
>> a tablet, and if so, how have you overcome them?
>>
>> A while back, I posted a query on assessing herbivory, and within a
>> short time got quite a few thoughtful and helpful responses, for which
>> I'm very grateful. I'm hoping that you have a solution to the current
>> problem.
>> Thanking you in advance,
>> Jonathan Rosenthal
>>
>>
>> Toby C. Cornish, M.D., Ph.D.
>> Pathology Resident
>> Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
>>
[hidden email]
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