2010/1/5 Przemysław Firszt <[email protected]>: > 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.
It's not a feature yet. It could be a bug if no one maintains it late on :). Przemo, I've assigned the feature request to you, along with another mapping related request and a few key mapping issues. It's up to you to convince the other "stubborn" person so we get the feature supported. I don't feel bad if we (you and me :) don't win the "battle". More than three years without a supporter does show me how unimportant the feature is. 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
