#kurta tablet and 3ds
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Thanks Donald. I'll take a look at my autoexec.bat. What did you select as
the tablet driver in 3ds.set, SUMMA or the ADI driver? I'm hoping that
SUMMA mode will work. I found out that the main reason the Kurta ADI
driver doesn't work with 3ds is that 3ds wants an ADI 4.1 driver _not_ an
ADI 4.2 driver, which is what Kurta supplies. 4.2 drivers work with AutoCAD
but not 3ds. Bummer, that really should have gone into r3.
Max Elliott
Max,
I use a "regular mouse" ($29) most of the time in 3DS. However, on occasion I
have been known to pamper myself with a "luxury mouse"… I have a hard time
with the mouse emulation in most tablets and find that work in 3DS is so
screen/mouse dependant that getting around fast is really important–much more
important than in AutoCad where I use shorthand macros, button macros and
typing for most command entry.
The Summa emulation would probably be a good choice if you are forced into
using 3D Studio with the tablet, better I think than a "tablet mouse", although
3D Studio has never really worked very well with tablets at all….
Donald
Max:
3D Studio can't correctly handle tablet ADI drivers. ADI 4.1
drivers that run in the interrupt mode work fine UNTIL you have
to exit, whereupon you crash if the tablet generates an interrupt.
While 3DS3 internally reports ADI 4.2 compliance, it cannot read
ADI 4.2 event packets.
The built-in SUMMA driver is marginally better, but because
it uses polled-mode I/O to get tablet data, it occasionally
misses an event like a button press or release. The symptom
is sticking crosshairs or a drag that won't drop.
Use the Kurta mouse driver and configure 3DS3 for a mouse.
Life is too short to do otherwise.