hi, Am Dienstag, den 02.02.2010, 10:22 +1000 schrieb Peter Hutterer: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:27:34AM +0100, Rainer Klier wrote:
> > is there a howto oder wiki or anything like this? > > generally, any input device features that go past x/y and buttons need to be > accessed through the X Input extension API. Start with XListInputDevices and > go from there. There's nothing specific to wacom about this API, it's > generic for all devices. ok, but i really don't need the x-features. i dont want the tablet act like a mouse. at least i don't care about working as a mouse. my scernario whould be: 1. user runs his computer normally 2. user plugs in the tablet 3. user starts my signing-application 4. user uses normally his mouse to work with my signing-application 5. but when he reaches the point of signing he takes tha tablet and "writes" his signature on the tablet. the software catches the signature-data and incorporates it into the document which was signed. so i don't need the tablet to work as a mouse. i need it as signing-pad only. > Xlib programming anyway. If you're using a toolkit such as GTK or Qt, you > need to look into the specific ways how they deal with input devices. my application is java-based. i already habe an api to deal with the tablet-data to get them into the java-application. all i need is a c-language-layer which gets the data from the tablet and talks to the java-coda via JNI. > In this case though, I don't think you need any wacom-specific features. > The tablet looks mostly like a mouse on purpose, it gives you coordinates and i think, this is my problem. and if i am wrong, and it is not a problem,. than at least, i don't care about the mouse-acting. > (x, y, pressure, etc.) and you need to then do with those coordinates what > you need - be that conversion into a signature, a line, a circle, or a > simple button press. you think, i should use the data coming from the xinput-layer and not coming from the kernel-driver? > Aside from possibly pressure, I don't really see why you'd need something > wacom-specific in the code - the app should probably work equally well if > someone uses a mouse to sign (the physical difference between the devices > shouldn't really matter). the app also should work with more advanced signing-pads which report more than x,y and pressure. -- Rainer Klier Research & Development xyzmo SIGNificant Group | Austria | USA | Germany A-4052 Ansfelden, Haiderstraße 23 Tel.: +43 7229 88060-0, E-Mail: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
