[Qt-interest] detecting tablet pen rocker buttons in Qt 4 Linux

[Paul Miller]

On 12/4/2010 4:41 PM, Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
> Does the tablet still work properly on the same computer with other
> applications, such as GIMP?  For that matter, can you tell me which
> tablet model, driver/Xorg version, and distro (and distro version)
> you're using?  They can sometimes be a bit fiddly to set up, and I
> have some small experience in the matter.

It's Ubuntu (6 I think), 2.6.15 kernel. Whatever the stock elements that 
come with that are. wacom_tools and xserver_xorg_input_wacom are version 
1.0.7.2-0ubuntu6.

I haven't made any manual edits to any wacom-related config files. If 
there is a driver-level change I can make somewhere to get the rocker 
buttons to map directly to mouse buttons, that would really help.

>
> Cheers,
>   - Jeffery MacEachern
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 06:09, Paul Miller<paul at fxtech.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/2/2010 3:44 PM, Jeffery MacEachern wrote:
>>> I've never actually tried this with my own code, but I have
>>> successfully used my Wacom Bamboo pen in this way with Qt-based
>>> applications, so it should be doable.
>>
>> Yes, I agree it should be doable. In fact it works properly on Windows,
>> but I think the driver itself is converting the rocker buttons into
>> mouse events before it even hits Qt.
>>
>> This doesn't seem to be happening on Linux. However, it worked as
>> expected with Qt 3.
>>
>>>    - Jeffery MacEachern
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 13:11, Paul Miller<paul at fxtech.com>    wrote:
>>>> Something seems to have changed between Qt 3 and 4. Now, there is no way
>>>> to detect whether a rocker/side button on a Wacom pen has been pressed.
>>>> It treats this as a normal TabletPress event, but pressure is 0.
>>>>
>>>> I want to treat one of the rocket buttons as a Right Mouse Button and
>>>> the other as a Middle Mouse Button.
>>>>
>>>> Can this be made to work?
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