On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:08:14AM -0800, Ping wrote: >> 2009/12/24 Przemysław Firszt <[email protected]>: >> > Dnia 2009-12-24, czw o godzinie 08:28 +1000, Peter Hutterer pisze: >> >> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 07:08:34PM +0000, Przemysław Firszt wrote: >> >> > Dnia 2009-12-23, śro o godzinie 09:57 -0800, Ping pisze: >> >> > > STopX0 is a read-only option since it returns the screen origins, >> >> > > which you can not change. Maybe a more user friendly output should be >> >> > > added into xsetwacom for this kind of options :). >> >> > OK, so am I missing something or we don't have option to use whole area >> >> > of tablet mapped to a part of the screen? >> >> >> >> AIUI, no. What's the use-case for this though? Applications can work >> >> around >> >> it by grabbing and scaling themselves - see the GIMP with it's "Window" >> >> setting for input devices. This is much more flexible too, as the >> >> application can then adjust the scaling if you resize the window, etc. >> >> One user case that I can think of is to map the whole tablet to a >> window or a particular screen area to fully use the accuracy of the >> tablet. That is why I added this "Feature Request >> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1559640&group_id=69596&atid=525127"; >> and assigned it to myself more than 3 years ago. However, this >> feature has never been requested by anyone else so I've never got the >> opportunity to prioritize it over other "urgent" support. > > I still don't know a real-world use-case for this tough. If you need the > tablet mapped to a specific area on the screen, you'd likely want to do > something on the screen. Which means interact with a specific application.
Yes, you are on the right track. The tablet to specific screen area (or window in some people's term) mapping is aimed mostly at applications and specific users. Take application for example. If we don't have the tablet to window mapping (that's what it is now), applications can only use part of the tablet that is mapped into a window if the whole tablet is mapped to a screen or the whole desktop. In CAD and a few other graphic design fields, the accuracy of their picture is so important that they can not afford to waste the precious tablet active areas. The reason, I guess, that this feature has never been requested so far is due to the fact that most "serious" graphic designers are using the whole desktop or a particular screen (if they have multi-monitor setup) with their apps. So, the current tablet to screen mapping is good enough for them. > > And in that case, it's better to have the application deal with it than have > some quirk in the driver that maps against arbitrary areas on the screen. It's not a quirk. It is a feature :). Ping ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
