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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed May 13 16:10:54 CEST 2009


You can use the [print( message and look for the wacom in the Pd window.

.hc

On May 12, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Rich E wrote:

> 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
>
>
> On May 11, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
>
> 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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