On May 29, 2007, at 12:58 AM, Greg Ercolano wrote: > matthiasm wrote: >> - plugin system for additional devices like tablets, 3D mice, >> extended keyboards > > Yes, I can see where pen pressure and pen orientation in > tablets would be handy info to get from fltk, similar to > how mouse x/y coords can be had, esp. for paint/drawing > programs. (I'm assuming fltk doesn't currently support > passing through stuff like pen pressure, maybe I'm wrong) > > I have some tablet code for X windows I wrote ages ago > that may be useful for tablet support; it uses extended X events > to read the tablet's pen pressure, tilt, eraser, etc: > http://seriss.com/people/erco/wacom/ > ..see 'tinypaint.c' as an example showing this using plain X > and openGL. (Thankfully, I think this is the /last/ X program > I ever wrote)
Yes, I know your code. The FLTK2 implementation (yes, FLTK2 has this already) of tablet support isbased on your code (and other code). There you can get information which device caused a mouse move or drag (fltk::device(): pen, mouse or puck), and get the pressure among other things. Matthias ---- http://robowerk.com/ _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
