Dnia 2010-01-05, wto o godzinie 16:54 +1000, Peter Hutterer pisze:
> How many users have we had requesting this feature - and not just for
> playing around but because there's a real need for it? 
> 
> Mapping the tablet to a portion of the screen cannot be solved with
> a device grab and in-application coordinate mapping only if you need to use
> two applications at the same time within that portion of the screen.
> 
> Ok, so you need to use two apps in a certain part of the screen - say
> exactly the centre. At this point you need an interface to modify the screen
> area at runtime since one of the applications may need to move or resize and
> you need to rescale that area with it. Once that need is there, it gets
> nasty, because you'll want to update that automatically, which means you'll
> have to have a tracking application that ideally communicates with the
> window manager to take care of this. All that with a driver-specific API.
> 
> I'm still not convinced.
> 
> > > 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 :).
> 
> Given enough time, any unmaintained feature becomes a bug.
> 
My question became a hot topic :-)
Let me explain how it started and why I need it. I tried to use tablet
for hand sketching (my first sketch, created under windows, tablet set
to keep aspect ratio and mapped to part of the screen -  see here:
http://firszt.eu/PLD/draw.jpg ). Later I tried to do some sketches under
linux (tablet mapped to whole screen) and the results were .... poor. I
don't need any interaction with application from the wacom driver, but I
want to move cursor/brush/whatever on the screen by 10mm when I move
stylus on the tablet by 10mm. 
--
Przemo



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