Comments on: N-Trig digitizer doesn’t get respect from cartoonists and illustrators http://www.lorenheiny.com/2009/04/15/n-trig-digitizer-doesnt-get-respect-from-cartoonists-and-illustrators/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:04:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: N-Trig Pulls a Rodney Dangerfield | MobileJewels TechNews http://www.lorenheiny.com/2009/04/15/n-trig-digitizer-doesnt-get-respect-from-cartoonists-and-illustrators/comment-page-1/#comment-5241 N-Trig Pulls a Rodney Dangerfield | MobileJewels TechNews Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:57:30 +0000 http://www.lorenheiny.com/?p=4723#comment-5241 [...] among cartoonists and artists who rely upon PhotoShop as the business accepted in realistic design. Loren’s got a enthusiastic write-up on his investigate and comes absent with the opinion that N-Trig is not feat to become this supply with a utility update. He believes the accord should [...] [...] among cartoonists and artists who rely upon PhotoShop as the business accepted in realistic design. Loren’s got a enthusiastic write-up on his investigate and comes absent with the opinion that N-Trig is not feat to become this supply with a utility update. He believes the accord should [...]

]]> By: LCH http://www.lorenheiny.com/2009/04/15/n-trig-digitizer-doesnt-get-respect-from-cartoonists-and-illustrators/comment-page-1/#comment-5225 LCH Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:01:47 +0000 http://www.lorenheiny.com/?p=4723#comment-5225 Thanks for the link! I'm a bit skeptical that the HID-to-WinTab approach will work, primarily because of performance reasons, but it may be feasible. My gutt tells me we really need to be able to talk with the device directly. It's worth a try. I guess the first question is whether it's possible to wrap WinTab around the Tablet COM API. I'm thinking the place to start is with WTOpen/WTInfo. Can a WinTab-enabled app query the Tablet via the Tablet SDK? Next step, I'm guessing--and this is a complete guess--is to see if a real-time stylus can be created and report back position information in real-time (WT_PACKET?). Hmmm. Actually, there's probably a better first step here: The question is can we use the WinTab code at all to control the pressure sensitivity in Photoshop? What I'm thinking is can you write a WinTab driver that represents a virtual Tablet which generates let's say variable pressure sensitivity for a mouse. The slower the mouse goes the lighter the sensitivity. Actually, forget the mouse state, just randomly generate different pressure sensitivities. Does this work? If anyone has given this a go in the past, could you leave a comment here and say whether it's a thumbs up or down on this approach? Thanks for the link!

I’m a bit skeptical that the HID-to-WinTab approach will work, primarily because of performance reasons, but it may be feasible. My gutt tells me we really need to be able to talk with the device directly. It’s worth a try.

I guess the first question is whether it’s possible to wrap WinTab around the Tablet COM API. I’m thinking the place to start is with WTOpen/WTInfo. Can a WinTab-enabled app query the Tablet via the Tablet SDK?

Next step, I’m guessing–and this is a complete guess–is to see if a real-time stylus can be created and report back position information in real-time (WT_PACKET?). Hmmm.

Actually, there’s probably a better first step here: The question is can we use the WinTab code at all to control the pressure sensitivity in Photoshop? What I’m thinking is can you write a WinTab driver that represents a virtual Tablet which generates let’s say variable pressure sensitivity for a mouse. The slower the mouse goes the lighter the sensitivity. Actually, forget the mouse state, just randomly generate different pressure sensitivities. Does this work?

If anyone has given this a go in the past, could you leave a comment here and say whether it’s a thumbs up or down on this approach?

]]> By: Pepor http://www.lorenheiny.com/2009/04/15/n-trig-digitizer-doesnt-get-respect-from-cartoonists-and-illustrators/comment-page-1/#comment-5224 Pepor Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:47:52 +0000 http://www.lorenheiny.com/?p=4723#comment-5224 I didn't have a look at the WinTab API (yet), but I guess it should be possible to write some sort of API wrapper that converts WinTab API calls to their respective TabletPC SDK counterparts. Wacom provides a specification on their developer site (http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/ibmpc/downloads.html). That way, any tablet that is recognized by the TabletPC SDK should be usable through the WinTab API as well. I didn’t have a look at the WinTab API (yet), but I guess it should be possible to write some sort of API wrapper that converts WinTab API calls to their respective TabletPC SDK counterparts. Wacom provides a specification on their developer site (http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/ibmpc/downloads.html). That way, any tablet that is recognized by the TabletPC SDK should be usable through the WinTab API as well.

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