Hi Gang, Speaking of a stylus, I understand that Squeak currently has support for a small graphics tablet. True or false? If true, which ones? Cheers, Roger.....
Alan Kay wrote:
Well, as Andreas pointed out, one really needs a keyboard as part of the idea. If you look at the earliest photograph of the cardboard model from 1968, you will see that it has a keyboard -- harder to see is the stylus which is embedded in the side. These considerations came from a fair amount of use of both GRAIL at RAND (a completely penbased system with a great realtime
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Any of the WACOM ones will work ....
Cheers,
Alan
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At 1:37 PM -0600 4/26/01, Roger Vossler wrote:
Hi Gang, Speaking of a stylus, I understand that Squeak currently has support for a small graphics tablet. True or false? If true, which ones? Cheers, Roger.....
Alan Kay wrote:
Well, as Andreas pointed out, one really needs a keyboard as part of the idea. If you look at the earliest photograph of the cardboard model from 1968, you will see that it has a keyboard -- harder to see is the stylus which is embedded in the side. These considerations came from a fair amount of use of both GRAIL at RAND (a completely penbased system with a great realtime
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Roger Vossler wrote:
Hi Gang, Speaking of a stylus, I understand that Squeak currently has support for a small graphics tablet. True or false? If true, which ones?
On what system? If your tablet can be made driving the mouse pointer, every tablet will work.
If you mean "real" tablet support with pressure sensitivity etc. it depends. It is implemented for Mac and Linux, AFAIK. On Linux, you need XInput support for your tablet. I know Wacom tablets work (see http://www.lepied.com/xfree86/)
-- Bert
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