On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:55:18PM +1300, Jason alavaliant wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Peter Hutterer
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:55:32PM +1300, Jason alavaliant wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]
> > >wrote:
> > [...]
> > > >
> > > > Haven't checked out the code because right now I'm at an airport and
> > I'm
> > > > not
> > > > even sure when I can send this email.
> > > >
> > > > Please don't use xsetwacom. We have properties, they are the driver's
> > > > official API. xsetwacom makes no guarantee for consistency or backwards
> > > > compatibility on its commandline interface. It's intended for testing
> > of
> > > > settings at runtime, but not as a base layer for any other client.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I was wondering if that was the direction I should be going in. The
> > main
> > > reason I'm using xsetwacom currently is that wacom-config -v1 was
> > originally
> > > written as a wacomcpl compatible tool that let you change settings from
> > > either tool (and there was no way to set things besides xsetwacom at the
> > > time). Is there any guide that covers all the properties for the
> > wacom
> > > driver? I think I can reverse engineer what most settings are via
> > > xsetwacom commands and watching how the properties change but things like
> > > 'Wacom Display Options (263): -1, 0, 0' would be a lot faster to
> > > understand with some notes. (I think the middle value is twinview based
> > on
> > > seeing it change when setting twinview via xsetwacom but I've got no idea
> > > what the other two are.)
> >
> > All the properties are documented in the wacom-properties.h file but not
> > overly expressive. I haven't added the man pages yet because some of the
> > properties are still in flux (e.g. the removal of TwinView related ones).
> > so
> > once wacom 1.0 comes out, the list of properties may not necessarily be the
> > same.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> >
>
>
> I've been making good progress working with xinput properties and have got
> code that uses the Coordinate Transformation Matrix working well (atleast
> now I've backported the patch that added that property to the kubuntu 10.04
> xserver so my computers support it), I've been preparing to change over
> all my other functions to use properties as well but there is one point I
> can't work out. What format/encoding are the values for the 'Wacom Button
> action X' properties stored as?
>
> (i.e. xsetwacom set 'Wacom Intuos3 6x8 pad' Button1 "key l" is stored as
> the property "Wacom button action 1 (482): 1114158, 65582" I can
> easily enough set the Wacom button action 1 property on the device but I
> can't workout how to tell what numbers to use, 65582 isn't as far as I can
> tell an X keycode, ascii, unicode or any other encoding scheme I can think
> of. (and extensive reading of the source code hasn't enlightened me) )
have a look at Xwacom.h.
"key l" is stored as 2-value property
AC_KEY | AC_KEYBTNPRESS | <keycode>
AC_KEY | <keycode>
> Also the property updating seems a little inconsistent in my testing.
> With settings like "key l t o" etc the property changes but
> setting Button1 to just 3 or 4 always seems to set the property to the
> same value (I'm avoid using "button 3"/"button 4" due to
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3075823&group_id=69596&atid=525124
> )
if you just set the button to a number, it updates the button mapping for
this button and should reset the button action property for this button to
None.
the other thing - yeah, one more bug to fix :)
Cheers,
Peter
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