great as ever! Stefano
On Tue, February 13, 2007 12:56, Thomas Grill said: > Hi all, > it's perfectly possible to separate mouse and wacom tablet inputs,by > "capturing" the wacom. > The major problem is that this is can only be done by using a > non-disclosed API. I was able to make an arrangement with wacom so that > they gave me the relevant specs, but i'm not allowed to publish an > object with open-source. It's possible to publish a binary one, though. > The object is already working for MacOS but i haven't had time for > Windows yet. It will be part of vibrez_pure. > > greetings, > Thomas > > Martin Peach schrieb: >> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> >>> On Feb 11, 2007, at 2:11 PM, João Miguel Pais wrote: >>> >>>>> There is a test version of [hidio] working on Windows, including >>>>> output support. We are working on making a release. >>>>> >>>>> But Wacoms will only be supported by [hidio] on GNU/Linux because >>>>> on Windows and Mac OS X, you have to install the Wacom drivers, >>>>> which do not use the HID API, but instead their own custom API. >>>> >>>> that's a drag. there's now way to avoid that? do you know any other >>>> tablets which allow pressure/tilt sensoring? >>>> >>>> do you also know if it's possible to use this tablet and a mouse >>>> together in windows? (that is, the tablet doesn't control the pointer) >>> >>> I don't know the answer to either question, but also would be >>> interested in hearing answers... >> The tablet and the mouse both work at the same time, so if both are >> moving, you get a mix of both. It's the same if you plug two or more >> mice into the machine, but the tablet has absolute position so the >> cursor jitters if it's being driven by a mouse at the same time, while >> the mouse relative offsets add together to make the cursor move. >> Wacom seem to have APIs available for the usual suspects at >> http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/index.html >> >> Martin >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > > -- > Thomas Grill > http://grrrr.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
