Win32 tablet support suggestions

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Nov 14 05:23:52 UTC 2002


On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:08:38PM -0600, Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> 
> Yo-
> 
> > I need to get tablet support under Windows, and was wondering if
> > [...]
> > Does anyone have any advice that can save me some trouble?
> 
> What specifically are you trying to write support for? Just using a tablet
> input for Squeak? From your two emails, I've gathered that's what you're
> looking to do...
> 
> I've used Squeak with a Wacom tablet with the wacom drivers installed with
> no problems, didn't have to add anything to my Squeak installation.  Mind
> you, the only features I used were click and right-click, but those things
> and moving the pointer worked fine.  Whar exactly are you trying to
> support?

Pressure sensitivity, for starters.  Also, potential handling several tools
at once, such as sketching with the stylus while adjusting the orientation of
the drawing surface with the mouse.

Joshua


> 
> Regards,
> Aaron
> 
>   Aaron Reichow  ::  UMD ACM Pres  ::  http://www.d.umn.edu/~reic0024/
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> 
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