[PyQt] Wacom tablet support

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 07 February 2008, Jake Richards wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jake Richards wrote:
> > Hello:
> >   I'm a little new to python and pyqt so please forgive any naive
>
> questions
>
> > I might have :)  But, what I am attempting to do is simply have my wacom
> > tablet work similarly to my mouse in a pyqt application.  It appears that
> > left clicks, right clicks and tapping on the tablet all work fine, but
>
> when
>
> > I try to drag, nothing happens.  I've tried selecting multiple things in
> > a treeview, using scrollbars, highlighting text, but it seems to only
> > register the first tap and not mimic holding down the left mousebutton
> > and then dragging.  Here are some tech specs:
> > Linux Kernel: 2.6.15-1.02
> > Python 2.4
> > Qt-4.3.1
> > Pyqt 4.3
> >
> >
> > The tablet seems to work fine in other applications (gimp/Shake/firefox)
> > Would anyone have any help they can give me that might be obviously
> > overlooked?  Is there any special initialization I need to do?  I can see
> > tabletDown/tabletMove events being triggered so something is at least
> > happening.  Thanks in advance!
> >
> > B
> >
> >What about other Qt applications?
> >
> >Basically, PyQt knows nothing about tablets - it if works with Qt it
> > should work with PyQt.
> >
> >Phil
>
> A good point.  I tried out the Qt examples and those don't seem to work
> either.  Basically the same issues.  Could they be compiled wrong or
> perhaps our version of linux/X be causing problems?  Or, is this more a
> topic for a different mailing list?  Thanks!

Different mailing list.

Phil