On Feb 13, 2007, at 5:02 AM, João Miguel Pais wrote:
do you also know if it's possible to use this tablet and a mouse
together in windows? (that is, the tablet doesn't control the
pointer)The tablet and the mouse both work at the same time, so if both
are moving, you get a mix of both. It's the same if you plug two
or more mice into the machine, but the tablet has absolute
position so the cursor jitters if it's being driven by a mouse at
the same time, while the mouse relative offsets add together to
make the cursor move. Wacom seem to have APIs available for the usual suspects at http:// www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/index.htmlthat's unfortunately not that flexible. so if I would want to get
some values from the table while playing the it, and at the same
time control my patch with the mouse, it wouldn't be possible for
the tablet not to control the pointer but still send in? and if I want to use the values from the click, it can happen that
the table will just click anything on the screen?I guess that's a behaviour from windows, and not from this (or any
other) tablet, right?
[hid] and [hidio] get the data straight from the device, so you can
get data from multiple devices separately with no problem. But the
OS also gets the data and uses it to move the mouse pointer. I know
of no way to stop Windows from using a mouse's data from moving the
mouse. In GNU/Linux/XWindows, it's pretty straightforward.
.hc
João Miguel Pais
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