From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 4 11:35:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08118 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 11:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08112 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 11:35:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.46.40] (helo=ragnet.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.03 #1) id 0zPs0M-0004qa-00; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 17:31:35 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0zPpIS-0000z4-00; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:38:04 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199810041126.MAA02292@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 15:38:04 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: (mgp-users 00027) graphic tablet experiecne ? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, itojun@iijlab.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Oct-98 Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> X allows one to change the mapping of the physical to logical buttons. > > yes, but i have just one -- the tip! Having 2-3 more on the stilus would > just be great. > >> > * In many occasions, i really miss the ability to map the whole >> > tablet (or a fraction) within a window, so i don't have to >> > "imagine" the boundaries of the working area while drawing. >> > In order to do this, however, i do need two things: >> > + absolute coordinates >> > + feedback from the server on the window's geometry >> >> This is already availalbe in X (for the Wacom tablets). A number of >> virtual tablets can be created. I would suggest that you look at >> xf86Wacom.c somewhere in the XFree86 source tree. Also look at > > this is what i am doing... in any case my goal was to try to > extend the moused/sysmouse interface so that it could at > least pass absolute coordinates, and possibly even user-defined events. > > I really don't want to rebuild a server each time i make a small > modification... You don't have to. The extensions are shared libs. $ ls /usr/X11R6/lib/modules pex5.so* xf86Jstk.so* xf86Wacom.so* xf86Elo.so* xf86Summa.so* xie.so* A restart will do! Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message