Re: [DIGImend-devel] Digimend - Ugee-1000L

[Nikolai K. <sp...@gm...>]

Hi Mike,

Please keep the maillist in the CC by using "Reply To All" to answer.
It's better when others can see our progress.

On 01/20/2015 02:52 PM, Mike Sapsard wrote:
> Thank you for the test drivers. I have briefly tested the drivers with Gimp,
> MyPaint and Inkscape, and they seem to be good.

Great!

> The soft buttons do not work - as I expected. However, they simply do not
> exist. The top of the tablet coincides with the top of the screen, and the
> screen menus work well. The functions printed on the tablet are Windows
> centric, and would not be used by me, even if they were Linux centric.

Yes, we don't bother with implementing them as they're mostly are marketing
feature and are of little use.

> The buttons on the left work correctly, except for the F5 and F6 Zoom In and
> Out buttons, which never worked. This may irritate you, but is not of major
> importance. Details below.
>
> Gimp:
> + and - keys should zoom in and out.
> Selecting Zoom In and Out from the screen menu works correctly with the tablet.
> Strangely, <Shift>+ and - work correctly on my keyboard. I reset all keys to
> the default mapping, but nothing changed.
>
> MyPaint:
> + and - keys should zoom in and out.
> <Shift>+ also works, but <Shift>- does not.
> Selecting Zoom In and Out from the menu is via 'Adjust View' and works
> correctly with the tablet.
>
> Inkscape:
> + and - keys and <Shift>+ and <Shift>- should zoom in and out.
> They all work except via the two left hand keys on the tablet.
>
> The F7 "Save" and F8 "Close" (Alt-F4) buttons worked before I received the
> driver from you, and still work correctly.
>
> I attach a new copy of frame_buttons.txt showing the output when buttons F5
> - "Zoom In" and F6 - "Zoom Out" are pressed.

All the generic tablets report Windows application-oriented shortcuts which
sometimes coincide with Linux ones. I used to do some report descriptor tricks
to remap them, but it's a bit too much work for just having another set of
fixed shortcuts. There is some work done to make Huion (and some UC-Logic)
tablets report generic buttons for these (Thanks, Vince!), which can then be
remapped by the Wacom X.org driver, but it's still raw. Meanwhile these
shortcuts will have to do.

> I also attach a copy of my email correspondence with Ugee, which may interest you.

Ah, that's interesting. Perhaps I'll try contacting them as well. We also had
a small distributor(?) from Japan contact us WRT the drivers. You can find
that in the maillist archives.

> If there are any other tests you would like me to run, please ask.

Thank you. I'll likely need some tests done in the future.

> I really appreciate your work on this.

You're welcome :)
In our turn, we always appreciate some help with the project:

     http://digimend.github.io/#how-to-help

Nick