On Mar 6, 2008, at 3:23 AM, John Bintz wrote:
It already looks much better than the current dialog. :) A few questions to start:
- Are the config types (Basic, Inking) going to be hard-coded in,
or can I create other configs?
The whole point is to have things user-friendly and user-defined. So one can set up many custom configurations.
- How would I switch to a different active config?
However you want to. :-)
There will probably be menu items, or a popup button somewhere, and in the dialog there might be a checkbox on the config's overview pane and also a right-click menu item for "Set as active configuration".
I was also hoping to get some auto-detect switching when appropriate. There could be a config setup for the normal pen, and one set up for the 6D Art pen. Then when you bring one of those to the tablet it can switch config, which will change the behavior of the cursor/puck/ mouse to do what matches your main tool.
Or it could also switched based on hardware config. If you sometimes have two tablets and sometimes have one, you could have configs for both one and two and we can see what's installed when we start the app.
- What if I have two or more tablets...would the configuration for the
first tablet be copied over to the second by default, or do I need to manually copy my settings over the first time I use the tablet?
I was actually expecting that one config would handle one or more tablets. Just the coding part of "or more" opens things up a lot, I think.
Of course for that, we'll need to have feedback from users who have more than one tablet.