Re: [Gzz] Asko 2002-01-03 (umltool, tablets)

[Tuomas Lukka]

>    Drawing tablets looked quite tempting. According to small googling most
>    of the Wacom products should work also in Linux. Good A5 tablet was
>    432e and A4 547e at verkkokauppa.com. Still quite expensive, but
>    probably during spring I'll find a cheap used one for my personal use.

I have one you can borrow. 

>    Mudyc: I wonder, would there be need for tablet in PP?-) Of course
>    Tablet PC would be closer to its targets, but tablet PCs seem to be
>    still either big and heavy or far expensive. Could drawing tablet
>    simulate pen interface?-)

Reasonably well: since the cursor moves when the pen is hovering 
close to the surface, you can get a fairly accurate feel.

>    Hmm... MacOsX seem to come with builtin(?) support for drawing
>    tablets (can replace mouse and -doubting- even keyboard).

Do you want to port our OpenGL stuff to mac? 

        Tuomas