bad stroke input

malcooning · Post by **malcooning** » 31 Oct 2007, 19:15

I have a problem that I think related to the way PenInput works in Vista. Whenever I put my pen down against the screen (in tabletPC) there's a tiny delay before the drawing actually happens. The delay is a small, but the result of the delay shows in the drawing: every new stroke begins with a deformation in the line (see picture). I think this has to do with the way Vista tries to calculate if the stroke I have just applied needs to be recognized by the OS as a flick or a contextual stroke (like gestures). I thihk I came across this when I used Intuos3 with Vista, but I think I might have installed the XP drivers (ver 4.0) to overcome this.

Does anybody know of more appropriate solution?

cheers

CartoonMonkey · Post by **CartoonMonkey** » 31 Oct 2007, 20:32

I have the same problem with the tablet pc.

The "Flicks" must be turned off, as well as the pen "press and hold" for right click.

A small sacrifice to be able to paint in real time..

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Fabrice · Post by **Fabrice** » 31 Oct 2007, 22:42

CartoonMonkey wrote:I have the same problem with the tablet pc.

The "Flicks" must be turned off, as well as the pen "press and hold" for right click.

yes, we had the same behavior here (a tiny delay when painting), and we used the same solution as Chad and finally everything worked fine. (windows XP try to find if you are doing a special action, so it causes the tiny delay)
btw, I don't know if this solution works with Vista

malcooning · Post by **malcooning** » 31 Oct 2007, 23:10

Cool. it solved the problem, although It's weird because I already tried that before and it didn't seem to help then.
Maybe it had to have your magic advice prior to its success

So now it's realtime, and to ensure I get most out of the pen tablet interaction I'm using Chad's tab tip tamer (thanks man). Still, I get a kind of line that is not completely smooth but has some kind of slight angles, almost as if I'm drawing with polygons. Am not sure if it's a CPU thing but it feels likfe something is slowing down the calculations of the stroke, and therefore the delay catch up results in this kind of line. It's not highly observable, but, you know, we're all perfectionists here and those little things are like tiny rocks inside our shoe!