Qt 4.6 and list of all graphic tablets supported

Adam nospam at xibo.at
Thu Apr 15 14:59:35 CEST 2010


I also use the Bamboo. On opensuse factory it works, but ether the tablet  
or the drivers don't support tilt and rotation.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:35:17 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>  
wrote:

> On Thursday 15 April 2010, silvio grosso wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am wondering where I can find a list of all graphic tablets supported  
>> by
>> the Qt 4.6 libraries? Is there somewhere such a link?
>> For instance, on the whole, on Linux, for Wacom tablets the support  
>> looks
>> like really good [1] But what about other brands?
>
> I'd call it "fair" -- Qt 4.6 still has bugs. And linuxwacom has some  
> bugs as
> well, like a memory leak that sometimes happens.
>
>> What about wireless graphic tablets [2]?
>>
>> At home, I work on Windows xp professional sp3 and I use a Wacom Bamboo  
>> Fun
>> tablet (with MyPaint 0.8.2 as software). I am not a graphic artist and  
>> the
>> Fun tablet is more than enough for me :-) On the other hand, for the
>> future, I would like to switch to Linux (I already use Ubuntu) and Krita
>> :-) Reading lately the Krita's forum I have read there are some problems
>> with graphic tablets.
>
> Vera uses the bamboo as well, and that _should_ work. But it's really  
> hard to
> figure out which version of Qt supports which feature -- some versions  
> support
> pressure, others support the stylus buttons, others again the tablet  
> buttons
> and some others the memory leak, apparently.
>
> I'm also very interested in reports of Qt's tablet support on Windows  
> and OSX:
> I remember that on OSX the resolution was horrible, two years ago. I  
> don't
> have access to OSX anymore, so I cannot check. I haven't tested Windows
> myself, since I'm still trying to setup a development environment.
>
>
>> P.s: sorry for the dumb question. But what is the best place to ask
>> questions? This mailing list or the Krita's forum?
>
> Either is fine :-).
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Silvio
>>
>> [1] http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/
>> [2] http://www.wacom.com/graphire/6x8_bt_tech_specs.php
>>
>>
>>
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