On 8/8/05, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote:
Bulia, would you find the ability to "record" and "playback" strokes
to
be beneficial (recording data straight from the tablet for position, pressure, & tilt for later use)? Or should I not bother with it
since
once the brush tool is implemented we would effectively eliminate
most
uses for it? I see it as beneficial for saving a stroke to be
replayed
with different parameters using the calligraphy tool... but as with
all
real brush tools, we'd basically have "brush stroke" objects that
would
be created that could have various brushes applied instead.
I think that while this may be useful currently, in general the "record/play" concept is too complex and too foreign to Inkscape. I don't think it's worth to introduce it for so limited purpose. Our main concept is "objects are tweakable", and we must use it. Which means, in this case, work towards real stroke objects whose parameters are editable at any time, not just filled shapes as now.
Awesome... and for the record, that stuff is working on win32 now... apparently the tablet had to be plugged in prior to starting inkscape for it to be detected correctly.
Bulia, do you want for me to "merge" the options from the stock input device dialog into the Tablet tab in preferences I was working on? Or do you just want the stock dialog to be pulled up via a button in prefs (from an existing tab such as on the Misc tab)?
I will work on getting it to just use the tablet without setting up through the devices dialog (currently it doesn't function this way), but for people that have manually configured devices (with custom names and such) we'll still need that configuration available.
-Josh