On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jason Gerecke <killertofu@...> writes:
>> Thankfully, not too terribly long. I've got representatives of most of
>> the tablets handy, though some with different button layouts (e.g.
>> Intuos4 Small) were guesses.
>
> I've updated 2 of the definitions you provided, which claimed to have both a
> builtin device and
> one that was reversible. That's not possible, for those devices the tablet
> rotation follows the
> screen rotation, so you'd just change the screen's rotation instead.
>
It was a little unclear under what circumstances "reversible" should
be set, but that makes sense.

> I've also noticed problems with the "Ring" value. At least the Cintiq 21UX2 
> has
> touch rings on
> each side of the device, but the definition says "Ring=false".
>
> I've also noticed that those rings weren't explicitely mentioned in the
> schemas.
The 21UX2 has two touch strips (on the back side of the tablet -- you
won't usually see them in photos), but no touch rings. Looking at the
metadata again, it all seems correct.

> Finally, those
> schemas have the button numbering wrong. For example, the Intuos4 6x9 that I
> have in front of
> me. In the definition, you have:
> # Button Map:
> # (A=1, B=2, C=3, ...)
> #
> #    *-----------------------*
> #    |                       |
> #  B |                       |
> #  C |                       |
> #  D |                       |
> #  E |                       |
> #  A |        TABLET         |
> #  F |                       |
> #  G |                       |
> #  H |                       |
> #  I |                       |
> #    |                       |
> #    *-----------------------*
>
> When in reality it should be:
> # Button Map:
> # (A=1, B=2, C=3, ...)
> #
> #      *-----------------------*
> #      |                       |
> #   B  |                       |
> #   C  |                       |
> #   H  |                       |
> #   I  |                       |
> #  (A) |        TABLET         |
> #   J  |                       |
> #   K  |                       |
> #   L  |                       |
> #   M  |                       |
> #      |                       |
> #      *-----------------------*
> # (A) is a touch ring, middle-click 1, 4/5 through the scroll wheel
>
> Would it be possible for you to update the schematics to reflect that?
>
Those button maps are in terms of the physical reality of the tablet,
which I think will be a better representation in the end. How
xf86-input-wacom transforms the data for use by X applications is
subject to change (indeed, we've discussed removing the artificial
"gap" every tablet has from D-G) but the hardware isn't. Rather than
hard-coding the effect of our driver's transformations in the .tablet
definitions, it'd make more sense to put that knowledge into libwacom
itself.

> I will probably also change the Ring property to a number of rings, rather 
> than
> a simple
> boolean.
>
Strips should follow the same convention as well. "HStrip" and
"VStrip" always seemed poor labels anyway (especially since "HStrip"
is often just another vertical strip!)

>> > I'll need to transform that data into something usable programmatically
> soon to
>> > get the button mapping on its way.
>
> This is going to get slightly complicated.
>
> In the definitions, we will need to:
> - name all the buttons (that'll need to be translated)
> - which mouse button they correspond to
> - and possibly include some metadata for LED setting if necessary (which I 
> have
> no idea what
> this should look like)
>
> Does that sound appropriate?
>
It sounds like you're trying to define the default mouse button that
is associated with each physical button. That's actually trivial --
xf86-input-wacom uses: (mouse_button = physical_button < 4 ?
physical_button : physical_button + 4). My maps were more intended to
define the location of the physical buttons on the tablet, since it
can at times be non-obvious how the hardware is actually wired up.
Same for LEDs -- the correspondence between physical location and
logical number isn't always clear.

Jason

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