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

[Rich E]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

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> You can use the [print( message and look for the wacom in the Pd window.
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> .hc
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Can you think of a way to route this information back to [hid]?  The main
reason I use [linuxevent] instead of [hid] is because I don't have to click
anything in order to initialize the wacom.. it is automatically looking at
the correct /dev/*


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> On May 12, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Rich E wrote:
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> 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).
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> Windows should be the only one that needs the official wacom driver.
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> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> .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?
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>>> http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/
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>>> 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
>>>
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>>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM, João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Friedenstr. 58
>>>> 10249 Berlin (Deutschland)
>>>> Tel +49 30 42020091 | Mob +49 162 6843570
>>>> jmmmpais at googlemail.com | skype: jmmmpjmmmp
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