Hmmm...I haven't tried my tablet recently (and I am under Win2000, so who knows) I have also only tried the tablet object with one type, an old wacom (3-4 years old).
We have a bunch of tablets here at work. Maybe I will try one of them and let you know.
Later, Mark
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-----Original Message----- From: Olaf Matthes [mailto:olaf.matthes@gmx.de] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:47 PM To: Mark Danks Cc: pd-list Subject: Re: [PD] gem blocks tablet
Hi Mark,
the problem is that I _want_ to use it because I need a pointing device that is capable of transmitting 3 different kinds of information (x,y,pressure) with one hand. Thats why I connected it to my computer, to use it with the gemtablet object...
So my problem is not to switch it off but to get it to work with gem... ;-)
I did a small test: When I start photoshop (or any other programm that is capable of using a tablet) and the tablet is _not_ connected to the computer, I allways get _two_ (identical) error messages reporting an error in WinTab.dll. When I start gem I just get _one_ error message (saying the same). Usually I can use the tablet and the mouse together, gem just blocks the tablet (there is no reaction when moving the pen), the mouse still works...
Olaf
Mark Danks schrieb:
You can turn it off with an environment variable. From
the release notes:
If you don't want GEM to take control of the tablet if it finds one, set the environment variable GEM_NO_TABLET to the value "1" (no quotes of course). There will be a print out if GEM finds the environment variable.
Later, Mark
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-----Original Message----- From: Olaf Matthes [mailto:olaf.matthes@gmx.de] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:16 AM To: pd-list Subject: [PD] gem blocks tablet
Hi Mark, hi list,
I just ran into difficulties using gem (0.84) and my
drawing tablet
(acecad DigiPadII cordless) on WinNT 4.0 (with pd 0.32-1). When I start pd the tablet sort of blocks: it is no longer possible to move the mouse-arrow on the screen. When I close pd (using the mouse or keyboard) everythings works well again. Gem reports: GEM: connected to tablet. Running pd without
gem does not
cause this problem...
Any ideas, hints, bug warnings... ? Or do I just need to download latest versions?
Thanks, Olaf