On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Favux ... <favux...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While preparing to modify the Rotate parameter entries in the
> mediawiki to bring them up to date with 0.11.0 I tested the parameter.
> It is not tablet wide with a Bamboo Pen & Touch. Rotating the stylus
> does rotate the eraser but not touch and rotating touch does not
> rotate the stylus or eraser. I suspect this is true of any usb tablet
> with touch. I assume touch is rotated with a ISDV4 device when the
> stylus is rotated but I guess I'd like that confirmed.
>
I didn't test it myself. In theory, both pen and touch should be rotated for
serial ISDV4 since they are on the same logical port. Other models, Bamboo
P&T and Tablet PC with touch, do not support it yet.
> It appears we may need to modify Rotate in man xsetwacom again. Something
> like:
> Rotation is a device-wide option: rotation of one parent or dependent
> input tool affects all other tools associated with the same device.
> Most tablets have only one device so for them the parameter amounts to
> a tablet-wide option. However usb tablets with touch have two
> devices, i.e. a parent tool (stylus) and a second parent tool (touch)
> and each needs a separate rotation command. When the tablet is
> physically rotated, rotate any parent or dependent tool for a device
> to the corresponding orientation.
>
This works for me.
We'll need to update the manpage when the two logical ports are linked
together for USB devices that support touch. We are not there yet.
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