Check the help patch, there are some subpatches on the top illustrating alternate methods of specifying the device.  vendorid/productid is quite useful

, but I forgot if that is implemtned in GNU/Linux.  There are other ways too.

.hc

On May 13, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Rich E wrote:

Can you think of a way to route this information back to [hid]?  The main reason I use [linuxevent] instead of [hid] is because I don't have to click anything in order to initialize the wacom.. it is automatically looking at the correct /dev/* 

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:

You can use the [print( message and look for the wacom in the Pd window.

.hc

 

On May 12, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Rich E wrote:

I use [linuxevent /dev/wacom] in linux... plus an abstraction.  Works fine and provides everything I need.  [hid] does work, but you have to know exactly what /dev/* file to tell it to look at (it won't take the /dev/wacom symlink).

Windows should be the only one that needs the official wacom driver.

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:

You can just use the linux input API to get the wacom data, [hid] works with wacoms in GNU/Linux, at least last time I tried.

.hc

On May 11, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote:

Isn't there actually a reverse engineered Wacom driver for Linux?
Couldn't this be used instead of having to ask permission from Wacom?

http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/

I too think it would be great to have cross-platform wacom support,
but I think it would be even better if there was a "libwacom" C API
for all operating systems for which the Pd "wacom" object was a simple
wrapper.

Steve


On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Joćo Pais <jmmmpais@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hello Pd developers and programmers,

we - me and Johannes Kreidler for now - wanted to ask if anyone would be
interested in programming a version of Thomas Grill's [wacom] for windows
(and unix, if possible). This external is used to take data from wacom
tablets - so in case anyone else is interested in this please say something.

The features/work would include:

- be compatible with general wacom architecture - and specially with the
Intuos3 (which is the tablet we own)
- take all parameters from the tablet connected
 - not forgetting tilt+inclination, touch strips and keys (these aren't
covered by [wintablet])
- put the compiled binaries in a svn folder packaged with Pd Extended (see
below)
- be willing to do some maintenance now and then, specially until things
get stable (after that, I guess the work would be kind of finished)

According to T Grill, the developer(s) that work on this must register
with Wacom as developer(s), so that they have access to the wacon API.
Also, the source code cannot be given away, so they must sign a
non-disclosure contract (from what Thomas said, not as complicated as it
sounds). I couldn't find exact information about this, but at
http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/index.html might be something more
clear.

It would be perfect if someone would be interested in porting the code
just because. In case that doesn't happen, we - me, Johannes Kreidler and
whoever wants to join in - would be interested in giving a small payment
for the work. We're poor people (just like you), so we can't really pay
what a professional programmer should get for the work. In that case, just
get in discussion with us, and we'll see what can be done.

Again, if this interests someone else - either as developper or
contributor - please forward this mail away.

Best,

Joćo Pais

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