[PD-dev] who wants to port [wacom] for windows (and unix) ?

[Rich E]

I use [linuxevent /dev/wacom] in linux... plus an abstraction.  Works fine
and provides everything I need.  [hid] does work, but you have to know
exactly what /dev/* file to tell it to look at (it won't take the /dev/wacom
symlink).

Windows should be the only one that needs the official wacom driver.

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

>
> You can just use the linux input API to get the wacom data, [hid] works
> with wacoms in GNU/Linux, at least last time I tried.
>
> .hc
>
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> On May 11, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
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>  Isn't there actually a reverse engineered Wacom driver for Linux?
>> Couldn't this be used instead of having to ask permission from Wacom?
>>
>> http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I too think it would be great to have cross-platform wacom support,
>> but I think it would be even better if there was a "libwacom" C API
>> for all operating systems for which the Pd "wacom" object was a simple
>> wrapper.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM, João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Pd developers and programmers,
>>>
>>> we - me and Johannes Kreidler for now - wanted to ask if anyone would be
>>> interested in programming a version of Thomas Grill's [wacom] for windows
>>> (and unix, if possible). This external is used to take data from wacom
>>> tablets - so in case anyone else is interested in this please say
>>> something.
>>>
>>> The features/work would include:
>>>
>>> - be compatible with general wacom architecture - and specially with the
>>> Intuos3 (which is the tablet we own)
>>> - take all parameters from the tablet connected
>>>  - not forgetting tilt+inclination, touch strips and keys (these aren't
>>> covered by [wintablet])
>>> - put the compiled binaries in a svn folder packaged with Pd Extended
>>> (see
>>> below)
>>> - be willing to do some maintenance now and then, specially until things
>>> get stable (after that, I guess the work would be kind of finished)
>>>
>>> According to T Grill, the developer(s) that work on this must register
>>> with Wacom as developer(s), so that they have access to the wacon API.
>>> Also, the source code cannot be given away, so they must sign a
>>> non-disclosure contract (from what Thomas said, not as complicated as it
>>> sounds). I couldn't find exact information about this, but at
>>> http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/index.html might be something more
>>> clear.
>>>
>>> It would be perfect if someone would be interested in porting the code
>>> just because. In case that doesn't happen, we - me, Johannes Kreidler and
>>> whoever wants to join in - would be interested in giving a small payment
>>> for the work. We're poor people (just like you), so we can't really pay
>>> what a professional programmer should get for the work. In that case,
>>> just
>>> get in discussion with us, and we'll see what can be done.
>>>
>>> Again, if this interests someone else - either as developper or
>>> contributor - please forward this mail away.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> João Pais
>>>
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