Questions tagged [wacom]

Wacom is a company that produces graphics tablets and related products.

Wacom is a company headquartered in Japan that produces a range of graphics tablets that are popular with artists, graphic designers, architects, and cartoonists worldwide.

Wacom's graphics tablets are reasonably well supported in open-source. The Linux Wacom project supplies a kernel driver and an X.Org driver for using these tablets with GNU/Linux. The Linux Wacom project's source code has also been ported to other open-source operating systems such as OpenSolaris and FreeBSD.

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Wacom web browser plugin?

I found this web page which describes in detail a browser plugin that exposes Wacom tablet features such as pressure sensitivity in JavaScript. Unfortunately, the download link is dead. Does this product exist?
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How to get accurate Java Swing mouse events on a Microsoft pen device?

Has anyone found a solution to timing of Java Swing mouse events on a Surface Pro or other Microsoft Wacom pen platform? The goal is to create responsive pen stroke input in a draw type application, including at the start of a stroke. This problem…
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Python example for Wacom tablets

Wacom has no official python SDK. Nevertheless, PyQt has a QTabletEvent that handles these tablets. Alas, I found no working python example of this. One can see a c++ example here. Can anyone please refer me to a python example?
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Crop dynamically signature images

Im developing a java application that captures client signatures from Wacom USB tablet, creates a 320x200 pixels white background image with signature and stores into database, to print it on PDF later. Before saving them, I would like to crop that…
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Python Wacom Interface

I am trying to write a python script on Windows 7 to interact with my Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet. Wacom recommends using the WinTab API, and it works fine, but not for my application. I don't want the Wacom tablet to act as a pointing device (as in, it…
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How do I get the Image out of wacom sdk java

I am using the wacom sdk signature tablet and I dont know how to get the signature image, I am using the DemoButtons sample. inside the the "pressOkButton" Method I want to write code that handles the image, maybe a Buffered Image format private…
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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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Wacom stu-430 signature is captured too slowly

I'm having problems configuring my Wacom tablet signature. I did the example without problems, but when I integrated it in my program, it broke. The problem is, when I click on the "Sign" button, it takes 5-10 seconds until the signature capture is…
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Detect if user presses button on a Wacom tablet

I was wondering if it is possible in Cocoa/Carbon to detect whether a key combination (e. g. Ctrl + Z) comes from a Wacom button or the keyboard itself. Thanks best xonic
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Wacom signature on ASP.NET forms

I'm writing an ASP.NET webform application that should use Wacom tablet (STU-430) signature to sign up documents produced by the application itself. The ASP.NET application runs on a web server and the remote client (Internet Explorer only at this…
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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 Python for a Wacom tablet on Mac & Linux

I am shortly going to buy a Wacom Bamboo Pen&Touch, and I'd like to be able to access it from Python, preferably using PyQt. I've found a Python module for accessing it under windows (cgkit/wintab) and I've seen Python code for accessing it using…
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Pen pressure in flash

Is there any way to detect pen pressure in actionscript?
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Does QTabletEvent works only with wacom driver?

There is n-trig and synaptic now (dell venue pro) except wacom. In docs about QtabletEvent I found nothing about support any of these technologies.
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Attach biometric data from Wacom STU SDK to a PDF document

I need to implement Wacom tablet handwriting in my Java software and I'm using the STU SDK for Linux. In the samples that are present in the SDK it is shown how to acquire the PenData and transform them into an image but for legal purposes I am…