Stylus pen is a pen-shaped instrument that is used to input commands to a computer screen, mobile device or graphics tablet.
Questions tagged [stylus-pen]
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IStylusSyncPlugin not receiving data after windows loses focus
I am using IStylusSyncPlugin added to RealTimeStylus plugins to get X,Y,Pressure and timer tick from stylus. This works fine until the window on which I collect this data loses focus. After that, even if focus get back to window, the…

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Where to find the low latency stylus API used by Squid?
Where can I find the low latency stylus API used by Squid application?
This is an excerpt from Android website mentioning it.
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The biggest and most beneficial effort was adding support for the low
latency stylus API, which drastically…

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How to allow both stylus/pen and fingers touch for scrolling WPF Scrollviewer
We developed a WPF application that can be opened in tablets. However the scroll viewer cannot be scrolled using pen/stylus, but can be scrolled using finger touch. How to support both?

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Is it possible to detect a passive stylus in a web browser
I was wondering if you can detect that an event comes from a passive pen from modern web browsers.
For example on a surface hub, in Edge, you have event.pointerType === 'pen' to distinguish touches made with pen vs those made with a finger but I…

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Simulate Wacom Tablet pen pressure?
I've looked into the Wacom Wintab Api (and this wrapper) and understand how I can retrieve the pen pressure (there's also an answer here which explains how) but I can't figure out how to simulate pen pressure to send it to an application.
There are…

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Thumb not dragging immediately with wacom board in WPF Slider
I've created a new WPF application in Visual Studio (.Net 4.5) and just added a Slider to the MainWindow:

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Using Bluetooth Stylus designed for iOS on Windows PCs
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Many touchscreens used on PCs/laptops with Windows 8 have multitouch capability, but no digitizer to convey stylus pressure data. The current, popular solution is to use Bluetooth on the stylus to stream the pressure data and combine…

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On an EMR android tablet (wacom stylus) can touch events be handled silmultaneously to touch events?
This is a duplicate to a question left unanswered and probably un-understood from another OP.
On an Adroid tablet equipped with wacom's EMR stylus technology, while detecting touch events, a pointerEvent can hold the changes of multiple pointer…

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S-Pen forces menu list to jump back to the top
The S-Pen does not scroll properly with a MenuDropDownListView after being created when pressing an OverflowMenuButton on the Toolbar (see gif below).
The menu is forced back to the top when the S-Pen makes contact.
This issue does not seem to be…

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PointerEvent stops firing after a short time
I'm currently trying to get a similar touch/stylus behaviour to Squid (the notetaking app). I have used the PointerEvent API and it all works, except for one annoying issue:
After I put down the stylus or the finger, it draws a stroke for the next…

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Changing stroke color dynamically
I am using stylus input to draw lines in a canvas. I want to change the color of the stroke with the pen pressure. so I used:
DrawingAttributes dattribute = new DrawingAttributes();
inkcan.EditingMode = InkCanvasEditingMode.Ink;
if…

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Stylus pen input not working on Unity android
I have a problem that I cannot input using the Stylus pen in Unity Android.
When the Stylus pen touches the screen, the first OnPressDown event is called, but then OnPressUp is not called, and all pen inputs are not operated afterwards.
OnClick of…

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Is the "S Pen remote SDK" a replacement for the "S Pen SDK"?
In my KitKat-era Android app I used the S Pen SDK v. 2.3 by adding libspen23.jar to /libs/.
Meanwhile (2013 -> 2020), Samsung seems to have adopted a new name. The Spen SDK is no longer offered. Samsung offers instead an S Pen Remote SDK,…

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Windows 10 : Pen (stylus) not working on MFC application
I have an MFC application that works fine with Pen (Stylus) under Windows 7, but unfortunately, it does not work on Windows 10.
Under Windows 7, I am able to scroll vertically with the stylus WITHOUT using (clicking and dragging) the scroll bar, i…

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How to handle Stylus/Pen input in QML
I am creating a simple drawing application and would like my app handle pen (stylus like Apple Pencil) input. The app is written in Qml/Qt Quick. I know that when using QWidgets you can handle tablet events using QTabletEvent (example), but how I…

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