Wacom Javascript API
April 1st 2010
Ever tried to make an online drawing application and got frustrated because you couldn't access the Wacom tablet pressure? I know the feeling :)
Although I'm a bit surprised of how little publicity this thing had (none?) seems like Wacom has had this ready for quite a while (Windows/MacOS only) and with the latest drivers it should all work smoothly.
If you have a Wacom tablet, take a look at these demos. To learn how to integrate it into your application, here it's the info but I found easier just to take a look at the sources of this demo. If you're a Flash/Flex developer, external interface is your friend, at least until Adobe implements it within the player.
Of course, I've implemented it already in Harmony ;)
Although I'm a bit surprised of how little publicity this thing had (none?) seems like Wacom has had this ready for quite a while (Windows/MacOS only) and with the latest drivers it should all work smoothly.
If you have a Wacom tablet, take a look at these demos. To learn how to integrate it into your application, here it's the info but I found easier just to take a look at the sources of this demo. If you're a Flash/Flex developer, external interface is your friend, at least until Adobe implements it within the player.
Of course, I've implemented it already in Harmony ;)
@Juho: Didn't knew about pen id, interesting. And yeah, need to play with the tilt too, but I doubt my old graphire tablets support that, will need to get a new one soon.
@zproxy: Weird, it did work here...
@zproxy: Weird, it did work here...
April 2nd 2010
@mr.doob: If you end up getting a new tablet, consider buying one of those 6D art pens too. In addition to regular params (ie. location, tilt, pressure) they provide rotation (as in pen "roll") information. I still haven't got one but I assume even that as its uses. :)
@zproxy: Only win/mac are supported for now. It might be possible that you are missing the plugin. You can find it at http://www.wacom.com/productsupport/plugin.php .
@zproxy: Only win/mac are supported for now. It might be possible that you are missing the plugin. You can find it at http://www.wacom.com/productsupport/plugin.php .
April 3rd 2010
I just wanted to say that the Harmony sketch page is awesome! Really great work you did there.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
May 30th 2010
what about multitouch in ff4?
August 20th 2010
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Some of the projects that I worked on.
Some of the HTML5 and Actionscript experiments I've done.
I was just wondering how to add Wacom support to the app last weekend. :)
I glanced at the API and tried out the demos. Pretty much the only thing missing is the pen ID. It would be handy to be able to bind a brush to a specific pen. That's something I can live without, though. The support for tilt totally makes up for that. :)