[Beta] Tablet object

Hey, I recently started working on a new extension, Tablet object.
You can make use of graphics tablet, e.g. get the pen pressure.
It's fairly easy to use.
To get the pressure as float from 0 to 1, simply do

Pressure("Tablet")*1.0/PrMax("Tablet")

The "On message" condition is triggered when the tablet sent data to the extension, so it would be better to use it instead of "Always".

There is one known bug, when using the mouse, it's handled as pen (absolute positioning).
It should not crash or anything... worked fine for all testers yet :)

Tablet.mfx

Have fun!

I put Tablet.mfx into the Extensions folder and the Data/Runtime folder but it's not showing up both in R249 or R247.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

You don't need to put it in Data\Runtime. Anyway, weird though - It worked for everybody else. Did you press Refresh or reset MMF..?

EDIT: Redownload please, might work now :|

ok i downloaded it and replaced the files... and it's STILL not showing up. I also refreshed and reset MMF2.

I'm assuming you're using MMF2dev, so I don't think that matters with anything...

Same here ... doesn't show up on the list.

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Same here ... doesn't show up on the list.

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Same Same here ^^

shows up for me

so uh... yeah

anyway, i was almost going to try making a wintab extension myself even though i don't know C/C++

Works for me. Could this be a problem with loading the Wacom drivers and some people not having the right ones, so MMF can't load the extension?

Works for me. However, I do not have a Wacom tablet, I have Genius tablet.

Doesn't show for me, and I don't have any tablet drivers installed at all.

Ok, thanks. I think that's because you don'T have a tablet+drivers. MechaBrowser, you really should install the drivers that have been shipped with your tablet. :)

EDIT: Darn...
http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/ibmpc/wacomwindevfaq.html#FAQ2.3
According to this page, I require to use the DLL... but I don't want to. :(

Okay! I'm using the DLL now - It still crashes when trying to use, but that's very logical - Fixable easily. Should at least show up in the list ;)

http://looki.lo.funpic.de/tablet.mfx

Nope... Nothing

I have the drivers for my tablet. It's a Fujitsu T4210 tablet PC.

It works beautifully for me !
I tried it on my laptop with an old digitizerII wacom and on my Toshiba M200 tablet PC (wacom drivers).
Thanks a lot for that extension !
I hope incompatibility will be solved for other users.

Thanks for the infos. Brovic, glad to hear that it works. :)
Wizkidweb, that's VERY weird. There's no reason for it not to show up.. :(

ok... i'm not reinstalling MMF, because that probably won't fix my problem. I'm gonna try rebooting, deleting the tablet.mfx files, and redownloading it.

Okay, thanks. Really, can't think of anything why it would it would be my fault :S (no offense)

Hooray! I got it showing up!

Just deleted tablet.mfx from /Data/Runtime and /Extensions/

and redownloaded. Cool, I'm gonna play with this...

:D:D:D:D
Very glad to hear! I just need to fix some issues that occur when you don't have a tablet, easy, just very boring. :) Awesome!

Uhh, it's crashing every time I use it. I know you said this, but you said it was easily fixable. Can you please fix it?

Have you installed the drivers? I'm not sure if your Tablet PC supports this, it would be nice of you if you google for "wintab support *your tablet*"

Hmmm... I didn't find anything...

I'm using Windows Vista. That might count for something.

Using vista (here) as well, even 64-bit. Weird thing... trying to fix these crashes first

Fixed all crashing bugs when not having a tablet.
wizkidweb, please check out the "Is initialized" condition! if it returns false.. we know what that means :P
Maybe putting the DLL into WINDOWS\system32 helps, I've uploaded it.
http://looki.lo.funpic.de/tablet.mfx
http://looki.lo.funpic.de/Wintab32.dll

Sweet... It's not crashing.

Now to play... ;)

It works with my Wacom ArtIIZ tablet drivers so far.

Good idea. Thanks for making this.

OK it's not detecting my tablet yet.

How can I have it detect my pen?

Glad to hear, Nova.
Wizkidweb, I'm sorry, but I think that means it's not supported :S
I think this really is just for stand-alone tablets, not Tablet PC's. Microsoft has an SDK for them, I think.

damn. Yeah there's an ActiveX I've been trying to figure out called inkPicture.

O well it would be great if this extension was compatible with Tablet PCs.

Indeed, I'm so sorry. The problem with this if I'd use the MS SDK would be (for me) that I couldn't test it, and sending it to you, every single build... meh :(

!!!!
Check this out:
http://pixarra.invisionzone.com/lofiversion/index.php/t1553.html
As far as I can see, you can use Wacom's drivers. :)

OK I'm confused. I already have the Wacom drivers...

I'm not sure if I have the Enhanced Graphic Driver (http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/driver.cfm). Would installing this make the extension work?

Why do you ask me? Just get them, it's worth a try. :)

lol ok. I hope this doesn't screw up my configuration...

HOOPLAH!

Everything's working perfectly. I just installed the Enhanced Graphics Driver!

This is great news! Thank you so much for this! Haha... this is so cool