Re: [cgkit-user] RuntimeError: Could not open Wintab device context

[Christian O'R. <chr...@po...>]

Your intuition was right. There was actually a problem with the driver
and only the mouse functionalities were working. I uninstalled the
drivers and installed the latest drivers from the Wacom web site and
now it works. Thank you for the answer.

Best regards,

Christian


2010/5/13 Matthias Baas <mat...@gm...>:
> Christian O'Reilly wrote:
>> I'm trying to use the wintab wrapper and it always failed at the
>> opening of the context with the error message "RuntimeError: Could not
>> open Wintab device context". For example, the following code :
>>
>> import pygame
>>
>> from cgkit import wintab
>> from cgkit.wintab.constants import *
>>
>> pygame.init()
>> screen = pygame.display.set_mode((0, 0))#, pygame.FULLSCREEN)
>>
>> hwnd = pygame.display.get_wm_info()['window']
>> context = wintab.Context()
>> context.pktdata = ( PK_X | PK_Y | PK_NORMAL_PRESSURE | PK_TIME |
>> PK_SERIAL_NUMBER )
>> context.open(hwnd, True)
>>
>> does generate the specified error at execution of the line
>> "context.open(hwnd, True)". Looking at the code of py_wintab.cpp, it
>
> If I run your code snippet here, I don't get any error.
> Have you double checked that the tablet driver is actually installed?
> Does the tablet (and all of its functionality, not just moving the mouse
> cursor) work in other applications?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Matthias -
>
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