Also, supporting my point that it's merely a bug, this happens only if done in *that* *exact* order. Meaning, pen down, palm next or anything else does not show this problem.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:25:16AM -0700, Jason Gerecke wrote: > Given that you're talking about a TabletPC, its probably out of the > question to ask if the correct behavior occurs under Windows. I'm not > sure of the hardware limitations of some of these digitizers, and I > don't know if the firmware can handle the detection of a large object > like the palm and the pen simultaneously. > > Instead of your palm making contact shortly before the pen comes in > proximity, try the four situations you outlined under the following > scenarios: > > 1) Single finger > 2) Two fingers > 3) Three or more fingers > > I realize these tests are pretty artificial, but they should narrow > down if the problem is related to the number of touch points being > detected by the tablet. > > Jason > > --- > Day xee-nee-svsh duu-'ushtlh-ts'it; > nuu-wee-ya' duu-xan' 'vm-nvshtlh-ts'it. > Huu-chan xuu naa~-gha. > > > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Cedric Sodhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can anyone preproduce it? > > > > On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:39:39PM +0200, Cedric Sodhi wrote: > >> Sorry, lost all emails from the previous thread, so I hope you don't > >> mind if I start that over, with a new starting point: > >> > >> > >> The "Pen takes precedence over touch" thing works in 70% of the cases, > >> I'd say. The other 30% are those where I rest my palm on the screen. > >> > >> In those cases, which are with 95% probability reproducible by touching > >> the palm down wrist first so that you bring the pen down by rolling over > >> the heel of the hand, the mouse pointer will then not follow the pen but > >> stay at about the point where your wrist/palm touched down. > >> > >> Now some fancy paths this situation can take, starting from where you > >> have palm and hand down, and the pen too (hovering or not), and the > >> cursor is at the palm: > >> > >> Raising hand, pen still down: Cursor doesnt budge > >> Raising pen out of prox. and bringing it back: Dito. > >> Raising hand, keeping pen down, bringing a finger back to operate the > >> touchpad normally: Dito. > >> Raising hand and pen, bringing either back: Normal operations resume. > >> > >> I hope this helps pinning it down. > >> > >> regards, > >> Cedric > >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! > Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its > next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran > developers boost performance applications - including clusters. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay > _______________________________________________ > Linuxwacom-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
