[PD] hid compatibility
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Tue Feb 13 16:11:40 CET 2007
On Feb 13, 2007, at 8:52 AM, Steffen wrote:
>
> On 13/02/2007, at 12.56, Thomas Grill wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> it's perfectly possible to separate mouse and wacom tablet
>> inputs,by "capturing" the wacom.
>
> I'm just curious. How is that "capturing" different from doing
> appropriate adjustments to X.conf on a linux system which have been
> suggested as possible workarounds?
It provides the same thing. It's just that Mac OS X and especially
Windows are not as flexible as GNU/Linux/XWindows in regards to
configuring this stuff. You can already do all this stuff with
Wacoms on GNU/Linux using [hid].
.hc
>> The major problem is that this is can only be done by using a non-
>> disclosed API. I was able to make an arrangement with wacom so
>> that they gave me the relevant specs, but i'm not allowed to
>> publish an object with open-source. It's possible to publish a
>> binary one, though.
>
> I simply don't understand why companies that make hardware like
> this wants to close the api like that. What gain can balance the
> loss of potentional users (= buyers)?
>
>
>> The object is already working for MacOS but i haven't had time for
>> Windows yet. It will be part of vibrez_pure.
>
> Great stuff. Can one just snap stuff/objects out of the vibrez_pure
> build and add it else where? Also, apart from the wee intro text on
> the website, can you share more info on the vibrez_pure project -
> especially how it differs from the other distributions?
>
>
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