[PD] hid compatibility

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You will have much better luck with the tablet using GNU/Linux.   
It'll work right now with Pd, and if you know how to mess with your X  
config, you can stop the wacom from acting as a mouse quite easily.

.hc

On Feb 10, 2007, at 6:07 PM, David Powers wrote:

> I had the idea to use such a tablet on Windows, but it seems
> impossible, because the WinXP wants to treat the device like a mouse.
> Obviously, we just want position data from it in Pure Data, but we
> want the OS to ignore the data and use the regular mouse.
>
> Am I missing something? Is this possible on Win?
>
> Alternately, I do have an old PIII laptop with Debian installed, and
> it seems that PD-extended is running on there fine. Would I have
> better luck using the tablet this way in Linux? I still don't really
> understand how Linux works or deals with devices though, so I'd be a
> total newbie at trying to get this running.
>
> ~David
>
> On 2/10/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>>
>> There is a test version of [hidio] working on Windows, including
>> output support.  We are working on making a release.
>>
>> But Wacoms will only be supported by [hidio] on GNU/Linux because on
>> Windows and Mac OS X, you have to install the Wacom drivers, which do
>> not use the HID API, but instead their own custom API.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:48 AM, João Miguel Pais wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I've been away for a while, and just wanted to ask something:
>> >
>> > - has anyone tried anything with the following hardware + pd?
>> > http://www.wacom-shop.net/cgi-bin/wacom.storefront/DE/product/ 
>> PTZ-630G
>> >
>> > - I was thinking about abusing that with [hid]. is it alredy
>> > working with windows (xp)?
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Joao
>> >
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