Mouse movement doesn't work with tablets?

[RayMarble]

If an Active's movement is set to "mouse controlled" in combination with a graphic tablet (I use Wacom), as soon as I bring the pen close to tablet, the Active just flies out from wherever it was. Swapping the pen with tablet's mouse makes it work normally though.

This is obviously a bug, since my Photoshop, Illustrator etc (and even TGF for that matter) work perfectly well with the same tablet. Is there any way around this?

[Jeff]

Hmm odd..

I will need to ask the couple other people I know using tablet PC if they are having any problems. We only have a couple users who do but so far no one has reported any issues. This is the first.

Edit --- oh wait you didn't mean a tablet PC -- I will have to dig out my old drawing tablet and see what happens.

[Jeff]

Yes seems to be some problem with this as the tablets seem to be too sensative. I don't think there is a work around.
Francois will have to take a look sometime and try to figure out whats going on.

[xyzzy]

tablets in pen tracking mode will do this if the cursor is used a certain way... i don't want to say "locking" the cursor in one place, because i'm not sure if that's what mouse movement is doing (since the cursor is hidden, but i'm basing this theory off that old first-person example for MMF1.5's opengl object that constanntly forced the cursor to the middle of the screen, and did this), but first-person games will usually have the same problem

you may need to just position the object via xmouse and ymouse instead

EDIT: yep, it's forcing the cursor to the middle of the screen; i can see it flickering back and forth between the middle and its real position

[Francois]

Yes you are right. To make the mouse movement work, I reposition the cursor in the center of the frame. Which cannot work with a tablet, so this is perfectly normal that this movement does not work.
To correct this, the only solution would be to add a property "Use tablet" in the mouse movement.

Francois

[RayMarble]

I'll just use the xmouse / ymouse then.