CompuServe Thread

#Tablet Support

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#47010From: Ian ChristieJun 21, 1993 8:11 PM
I just bought a Calcomp Drawing Board tablet which works great with everything except (sigh) 3DS. Any thoughts on how to get this to work? The tablet supplies a Summa emulation, but 3DS doesn't recognize it; the Calcomp tech support guy doesn't know why, but expressed a hope that future versions of 3DS provide better support for tablets. Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated. Ian.
#47083From: Yost GroupJun 22, 1993 9:40 AM
I know that a few of the folks here on the forum use 3DS with the Calcomp. Hopefully one of them will read this. If the Calcomp comes with a DGPADI.EXP tablet driver, you can use that with 3DSr2. – G
#47203From: Ian ChristieJun 22, 1993 11:25 PM
It comes with DGCALCMP.EXP which does not work properly with 3DS2. I have been unable to map an area greater than 4×5 inches on the tablet and when the cursor reaches the edge of the screen the correspondence between the tablet coordinates and the screen coordinates is lost. It works like a poor mouse; in fact it works better in mouse mode. How does one adjust the mapping of a tablet with an adi driver anyway? or should that be automatic. If others have managed to make this thing work I'd love to hear about it. Ian.
#47248From: Yost GroupJun 23, 1993 10:02 AM
3DSr2 conforms exactly to the DGPADI pointing-device specification, so if the DGCALCMP.EXP driver doesn't work with it, it's most likely due to the driver itself. As I said in my last message, there have been a few people here on the forum who use the Calcomp with 3DS succesfully… hopefully one of them will see this thread and respond to you. Regarding your question about adjusting the tablet mapping… that is all supposed to be done during driver installation/configuration. – G