On Feb 23, 2006, at 2:04 AM, Doug Franklin wrote:
Patrick Genovese wrote:
1. Normal operations with the pen (such as using winddows
apps) will require big sweeping arm movements. This is
because the tablet maps to the screen area. This means
that the top left corner of the tablet maps to the top
left corner of your screen.
Actually, at least on the Intuos2, you can choose the mapping mode
for the surface of the tablet, and it can be different for the pen
and the mouse. One mode is "absolute" where the corners of the pad
area are the corners of the screen, as Patrick describes, but you
can also put it in "relative" mode where it works more like a ball
mouse. That is, you can pick the pen or mouse up off the tablet
and move it without moving the cursor.
Or you can map an arbitrary part of the tablet to an arbitrary part
of the screen, with or without a fixed aspect ratio. My dual-screen
desktop covers about half of the active area of my 9x12 tablet, with
"top" at about 1/4 of the way down the tablet.
The Wacom drivers are very good.
- Dave
http://www.bluemoon.net.nz/
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
