Re: Imporving support for graphics tablets in wine (wintab.dll)
Tony Lambregts tony_lambregts-at-telusplanet.net |Wine Mailing Lists| wrote: Robert North wrote: Modern graphics tablets also provide pressure and tilt information, essential for quality graphics editors such as Painter Photoshop. Currently graphics tablets are treated as mice in wine, and so cannot provide this information to a Win16/32 app. To access pressure tilt info in Windows, a programmer would use the wintab.dll. Has anyone attempted to build a wintab.dll for Wine? In my past 3 years of monitoring this list I do not recall anyone trying to do this. I could be wrong but my memory is not all that bad... Ok, so I'll start it moving... Expect some E-mails on this list about legal and technical issues soon. I'm interested in attempting an extremely limited implementation for Painter Photoshop, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. Assuming nobody has done this what's the first step? Raise a bug, and accept it? Yup! It is not absolutly nessesary to start a bug but I would recommend it. I find it gives you a place to keep track of things and somewhere to point to if you run into problems. Another advanatage is that bugzilla maintainers such as myself can point other users to it. (if it even comes up) Ok, expect a bug to appear any time soon. Cheers -Rob.
Imporving support for graphics tablets in wine (wintab.dll)
Modern graphics tablets also provide pressure and tilt information, essential for quality graphics editors such as Painter Photoshop. Currently graphics tablets are treated as mice in wine, and so cannot provide this information to a Win16/32 app. To access pressure tilt info in Windows, a programmer would use the wintab.dll. Has anyone attempted to build a wintab.dll for Wine? I'm interested in attempting an extremely limited implementation for Painter Photoshop, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. Assuming nobody has done this what's the first step? Raise a bug, and accept it? Bye -Rob.
Re: Imporving support for graphics tablets in wine (wintab.dll)
Robert North wrote: Modern graphics tablets also provide pressure and tilt information, essential for quality graphics editors such as Painter Photoshop. Currently graphics tablets are treated as mice in wine, and so cannot provide this information to a Win16/32 app. To access pressure tilt info in Windows, a programmer would use the wintab.dll. Has anyone attempted to build a wintab.dll for Wine? In my past 3 years of monitoring this list I do not recall anyone trying to do this. I could be wrong but my memory is not all that bad... I'm interested in attempting an extremely limited implementation for Painter Photoshop, but don't want to reinvent the wheel. Assuming nobody has done this what's the first step? Raise a bug, and accept it? Yup! It is not absolutly nessesary to start a bug but I would recommend it. I find it gives you a place to keep track of things and somewhere to point to if you run into problems. Another advanatage is that bugzilla maintainers such as myself can point other users to it. (if it even comes up) -- Tony Lambregts
