Hi there,

If you own or like Wacom graphic tablets, please tell Chris Hodges about it (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/highway_usb/message/1858). Given enough people contact him he may extend his Poseidon hid class so as to give more support for Wacom tablets - e.g. absolute positionning mode.
Ciao

Sergio

@ Sergio

Hi,

I just send an e-mail to Chris Hodges about to support the tablets. It would realy be great if this happens. I know several artists who would be very interessted in using such a tablet with e. g. TVPaint.

Regards

Christoph

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Great! Just re-direct them to Chris.

Sergio

I own decent economic USB Trust graphic tablet...

I wonder if it could work with Wacom driver...

I've also mailed Chris. Got a Wacom Intuos A4 oversize.

I would love a Wacon Tablet on my Pegasos.

I just emailed Christ Hodges.

Poseidon is great software!!

Hope you decided to develope it!

Bob

Eight emails and 25 KB of addition source code later, the HID class now
supports the following tablets (only the stuff that's relevant to AmigaOS,
not the finger pads or spiffy intuos tools):

Cintiq 21 UX
Cintiq Partner
DTF-720
Graphire
Graphire 2 4x5
Graphire 2 5x7
Graphire 3
Graphire 3 6x8
Graphire 4 4x5
Graphire 4 6x8
Intuos 4x5
Intuos 6x8
Intuos 9x12
Intuos 12x12
Intuos 12x18
Intuos 2 12x12
Intuos 2 12x18
Intuos 2 4x5
Intuos 2 6x8
Intuos 2 6x8
Intuos 2 9x12
Intuos 3 4x5
Intuos 3 6x11
Intuos 3 6x8
Intuos 3 9x12
PenPartner
PenPartner 2
PenStation 2
PL-400
PL-500
PL-510
PL-550
PL-600
PL-600 SX
PL-700
PL-710
PL-800
Volito
Volito 2 2x3
Volito 2 4x5

However, the only one that's been tested is currently the Graphire 2 4x5.
The other ones have been implemented on the packet structure information
found on the net.

About beta testing: I will send beta versions to some of these eight
requesters at given time.

Chris, you absolutely rock!

/me agrees

@ platon42

This is absolutely GREAT!!!!

Thanks already!

I will be glad to test it on the Intuos3 A5Wide

Regards

Christoph

That's really great news, thanks Chris. Can't wait to try it out with TVPaint.

[ Edited by Toto on 2005/11/23 4:24 ]

Yes ! That's a really great news.
I am very interested in this USB graphic tablet.

Denis
Pegasos and Draco french user

What is the best of these that exists? Anyone know? And do any of them allow one to see what you are drawing on the tablet itself, or does this only show on the computer screen?

[ Edited by XDelusion 04.12.2011 - 21:22 ]

Will one of these work with MOS? Which applications support pens and tablets? Sketch? Showgirls? Gribouilis 3? I also have old ArtEffect (3 or 4). Can I use the pen and tablet(s) with that? Are there other programs like music programs, DTP or text applications zthat support tablets?

http://www.aldi-nord.de/aldi_ab_donnerstag_0812_48_802_802_13127_5.html

http://www.lidl.de/de/SILVERCREST/SILVERCREST-Grafiktablett1

Bought both of them for testing which one is better. The ALDI tablet works fine (also as mouse replacement) but has no extra keys. The LIDL tablet has extra keys which I did not manage to configure. Man, Poseidon has soooooo many options! I really don't understand all of this. It is too complicated for me. I did not find a place how to configure those virtual keys around the tablet. There are 26 keypads around the tablet, so when you push with the pen on one of these a defined action can be executed. But in Poseidon config I only find the two scroll wheels and the keys on the pen itself. Can anyone know or guess how do I get these extra keys to work?

Also, the LIDL tablet (the SILVERCREST one) is very sensitive. Whenever I reach the surface, a double click is very often performed. This is too fast as I did not hit for a double click. With the ALDI tablet this does not happen. Does anyone know how I can configure Poseidon to be less sensitive?

Also, I have to run mouse, keyboard and tablet at the same USB hub. when I plug in the tablet and use it, the normal keyboard does not work anymore. It does not get disabled via Popo, I do not get a message. It just does not react on keypress anymore. I have to plug it out and in again. Can I configure this in any way?

[ Edited by connor 09.12.2011 - 23:58 ]

Yes, The USB interface is utterly confusiong to configure sometimes.

I.E. When trying to configure a joypad to work as a Mouse/Keyboard.

Everyone can explain it to me how it "should" work in theory, but nobody has ever gotten it to work correctly in practice. At least not that I've saw.

So anyhow, thanks for the info, but I must ask,"isn't it kind of hard to draw on a pad when you can't see what you are drawing displayed upon it?

> isn't it kind of hard to draw on a pad when you can't see what you are drawing displayed upon it?

Yes, especially as you can hardly feel the corners of the drawing plate. You always have to watch the monitor what you are drawing.

connor,
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I thought so. Tis really a shame we don't have support for such hardware. It would be great to not have to rely up on the main stream OS's all the time to take advantage of some of the better hardware options out there.


Edit, actually it appears that the "Cintiq 21 UX and
Cintiq Partner" are visual tablets! :)


[ Edited by XDelusion 10.12.2011 - 17:10 ]

Yes and just 25 times as expensive as a standard tablet. But there seems to be no simple tool for configuration of extra keys or intensity when pressing with the pen on the tablet. So I have to see if I can understand what Poseidon wants from me.

God speed!