Re: A small present. (PenTablet-support installation script for 656/703)

2008-05-13 Thread Patrick Dubroy
-- much more than conventional graphics tablets. Pat -- Patrick Dubroy http://dubroy.com/blog - on programming, usability, and hci ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: A small present. (PenTablet-support installation script for 656/703)

2008-05-13 Thread Patrick Dubroy
Hi Michael, Thanks for this. I'd like to give it a try soon, but I was just wondering...do you know if there's a way to use this without the tablet controlling the core pointer in X? From a usability point of view, I think it should work as an independent device. Thanks, Pat -- Patrick Dubroy

Re: Usability testing

2008-04-13 Thread Patrick Dubroy
much work. I'd love to see more reports from the field like Robin's. Pat -- Patrick Dubroy http://dubroy.com/blog - on programming, usability, and hci ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: Usability testing

2008-04-12 Thread Patrick Dubroy
a better job in coordinating our usability efforts. In the next few days, I'll try to set up a central place on the wiki that can use to do this. Anyone else who is interested in this can feel free to do so, of simply get in touch with me to let me know you're interested. Pat -- Patrick Dubroy http

Pen Tablet support and a usability study

2008-04-12 Thread Patrick Dubroy
of my prototype user interfaces. I've summarized the results here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pen_Tablet_UI/User_Study Feedback is welcome -- either directly, or on the appropriate Talk page. Pat -- Patrick Dubroy http://dubroy.com/blog - on programming, usability, and hci http://wiki.laptop.org

Project application: TabletUI

2008-04-07 Thread Patrick Dubroy
E-mail - -- #1 pdubroyPatrick Dubroy http://dubroy.com/patrick/id_rsa.pub[EMAIL PROTECTED] If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please attach them to the application e-mail. 7

Re: Fixing the Pen Tablet

2008-04-07 Thread Patrick Dubroy
, as an alternative to reading directly from /dev/input/event5, as I'm doing now. Thanks, Pat -- Patrick Dubroy http://dubroy.com/blog - on programming, usability, and design 2008/3/23 Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks, Below are patches to the kernel source code and the xorg-x11-server

Summer of Code mentorship

2008-04-05 Thread Patrick Dubroy
can mentor them, and I've been told that their applications will be stronger if I've been approved by the time they submit (deadline is Monday I think). Does anyone know if there's something I can do to speed this process up? Thanks, Pat -- Patrick Dubroy http://dubroy.com/blog - on programming

PenTablet user interface

2008-03-31 Thread Patrick Dubroy
dragging the stylus (Option B for Precise Drawing) I have an application which demonstrates some of these techniques, which I could make available to anyone who is interested. I am also planning on doing a small, informal user study to test some of the techniques. Pat -- Patrick Dubroy http

Re: Accessing PenTablet coordinates from PyGTK

2008-03-09 Thread Patrick Dubroy
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I've tried setting SendCoreEvents to false, and then creating a GTK widget and registering for extension events. This allows to receive motion events from the PenTablet, but the x and y values in the event

Re: Accessing PenTablet coordinates from PyGTK

2008-03-09 Thread Patrick Dubroy
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Patrick Dubroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently there used to be a method gdk.Window.input_get_pointer that would allow you to query the location of the pointer for XInput

Accessing PenTablet coordinates from PyGTK

2008-02-29 Thread Patrick Dubroy
I'm trying to get access to the PenTablet from within a PyGTK application. Since the PenTablet isn't working in the current system, I had to modify xorg.conf to use the evdev driver (as in this example: http://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/2198/new-xorg.conf). Doing this, I can get the

Re: Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-22 Thread Patrick Dubroy
as pressure. Best, Wade On Jan 14, 2008 11:29 AM, Patrick Dubroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the student Mike mentioned who will be working on this project. Does anyone have any more details on how much low level work needs to be done? I know there will need to be work done to map

Re: Controlling the Glide/Pressure sensor

2008-01-14 Thread Patrick Dubroy
details that people could give me. Thanks, Pat -- Patrick Dubroy http://dubroy.com/blog - on programming, usability, and hci On 1/10/08, Mike C. Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a student who's interested in doing a term project on the UI for the track sensor. I've put together