No more Graphics/Drawing Tablet Support!?!?

[Tiearian]

Have used it in the past, and now it simply isn't working. Is this by design? or a bug? Cursor moves when using tablet, but the circle area of effect does not follow the cursors location

[Tiearian]

Graphics Tablet No longer working w/ Wallpaper Engine?

So I haven't made any wallpapers lately. However, I recently went to make a new background, grabbed my Tablet and what not as I have in the past. But now It doesn't work with this program only. Before It would let me paint and what not with the pen, though now it simply doesn't move the Circle that indicates the area I'm painting, however the Cursor moves around. Nothing has changed with my drivers and such for the tablet, the only thing that has been updated since my last use, was Wallpaper Engine. Also there isn't any programs in the background that would be interfering.\

Anyone else run into this? Is there a fix?

[Rhy]

It didn‘t work on mine either. Not sure if it ever had support for it though.

[Biohazard]

Maybe it came from a Chrome/CEF update that I'm using for the UI. Do you know of any way to replicate this issue without an actual graphics tablet?

[Biohazard]

Are you sure that painting worked before? Because the problem is that the actual cursor position is not ever being changed by the tablet. You can even see this in Windows, if you move the mouse after you used the tablet, the cursor jumps back to where it was before you used the tablet.

If this was defintiely working before then Windows must have gone and separated the tablet cursor from the mouse cursor.

[Tiearian]

It was working before. My tablet has the option (thats on by Default) to move the cursor when not pressing down. So the cursor moves. however the circle does not. It registers when I touch the tablet to draw, but it stays stationary. Normally with my tablet, when you hover the drawing/canvas area and move the pen without touching the tablet, it would move the cursor. This is no longer having any effect in wallpaper engine, however everything else i've tried with still works as normal.

Sorry I guess I just reitterated what I said before. Though, I've searched high and low to turn anything pen/tablet/touch releated setting on and off to find any results, and have not found anything yet that resolves the issue.

When I use the cursor and move it, the circle stays in place, if i then move my mouse slightly then the circle will jump to the cursor location immediately (not the other way around). To me this indicates that Wallpaper engine may only want to look at one driver source? I'm going to do some testing here again in a short while, and disable all other cursor related drivers, to see if wallpaper engine will see my pen as the default cursor driver? I dunno if that even matters, but thats what i'ma try next heh.

[Biohazard]

Wallpaper Engine never had support for touch input or pens or anything other than mouse. The reason it worked before must have been that Microsoft makes the first touch point work just like a mouse cursor, this is how they documented it and how it is intended to work. This is good, because then the tablet 'just works' in other programs without them having native touch support.

I have never tried it before, but right now when I connect a tablet, it definitely does not return the tablet cursor, it always returns the mouse cursor even though the tablet is in use. There is no simple alternative for this function I'm using, at least I'm not seeing any. I also don't know if Microsoft intended to make this change or if it's a bug.

[Biohazard]

Which Windows version are you using?

Maybe I can add *actual* support for it, I found some messages that seem to work for graphics tablets specifically. But it looks like they are only for Windows 8 and 10.

[Tiearian]

I am running Windows 10. I feel those with tablet abilities now-a-days (on average) would be at windows 10. Just cuz of all the ultrabooks, surfaces, and what not that come with pens.

[Biohazard]

Alright. Well I played around with it and I think it should be possible to solve it using those, there is apparently also a way to get the pressure without having to use special SDKs so maybe I can integrate that.

I couldn't fully get it to work though, only the camera and interaction with the window eventually worked, not painting, I will need to find some extra time to study this and figure it out.

[Tiearian]

Your effort is very much appreciated. I'll tell ya, when It was working for me, painting was several times faster. This previous image I did with the mouse took me over an hour, just for the painting on some of the layers. ( I like to make things as close to the perfect as possible, they are also 8k images)