WACOM digitizer and pressure sensitivity

[Funnycat]

7 works with WACOM tablet OOB, but there's no pressure sensitivity. If you install WACOM drivers you get pressure sensitivity but you lose almost all features of tablet PC support, e.g. the cursor becomes a normal mouse, you don't get the virtual keyboard side panel, and the right click doesn't work as designed. Has anyone resolved this issue?

 

[fillup]

My Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet works fine in Win7 64bit. I'm using the 5.1.0-4 Vista drivers.

 

[Funnycat]

My Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet works fine in Win7 64bit. I'm using the 5.1.0-4 Vista drivers.

Well, I'm using a tablet PC, it's a little bit different here. What kind of cursor do you see when you're using your tablet? do you see a regular cursor or that fancy star thingy?

 

[Saltgrass]

I am in the same situation as fillup. I believe my pointer looks the same as a normal mouse, but I have never used a Tablet PC. I notice there are several areas in the Control panel that might effect your settings, like Pen and Touch, Mouse, and Tablet PC.

In the mouse panel there is a check box at the bottom of the pointers tab for allowing themes to change the mouse pointer. Have you tried that already?

There is also a mouse pointer setting under the "Ease of Use" panel. You might try changing that to see if it effects your pointer.

 

[Funnycat]

My concern isn't the pointer, it's the overall behaviour
When it works as intended (tablet pc mode), to get a right-click menu you have to depress the stylus side button and tap the screen, when it's in its "mouse pointer mode" the right click menu pops up at any moment you press the stylus side button which is pretty annoying. Right now I'm in a weird situation - it works as designed everywhere except for the tablet aware apps (like Photoshop). In Photoshop the calibration is WAY off, and I mean it's like only the upper-left quarter of the screen is affected by stylus movement on the whole screen, and if I manage to open a canvas, the pressure sensitivity works

 

[Saltgrass]

Well, I don't have Photoshop either, so I can't try to duplicate your problem. But maybe discussing it will help others.

On the table PC, the stylus calibration normally allows you to move the entire display area? When you open a window with Photoshop, it changes and stays within the confines of the PS window, but if you get out of the window, it goes back to the entire desktop?

All I might think of would the percentage zoom effect this behavior? If you change the size of the PS window or the image zoom, does it still remain in only one quarter of the window?

Do you have Aero Snap turned on? The reason I ask is because something might have been changed as far as how windows are handled and resized for this added feature in W7.

If Photoshop has a trial version, I will download it and try my Bamboo Fun tablet, but of course, it still won't be on a table PC.

 

[garysgold]

I'm afraid I don't have any idea what the problem might be. I have an Intuos 2 and have pressure sensitivity in Photoshop Elements, and PhotoPaint. This is using the driver installed during the installation of Seven.

Gary

 

[Saltgrass]

I am downloading CS4 now to try, but I found something you might check into. It appears CS4 is putting out a beta fix and is looking for testers. You might drop this person a line. It doesn't go into what fixes they are aiming for, but he could probably tell you.


adam dot jerugim at adobe dot com

 

[roy69]

Have you checked the services to ensure that the tablet services are enabled. I had this problem, when I first install my OS I turned off the tablet services because I did not use one, when I finally bought one I forgot to turn the services back on.
As a note if you are using multimonitor and you only want the tablet funtion to work on one screen (The main image) then turning off the tablet service may help. It is all a matter of preference.

 

[Funnycat]

Okay, thanks for the replies.
Saltglass, I'll describe the behaviour better: Regardles of the Photoshop window's position, size, maximized state, etc, the pointer stays in the upper-left quarter of the screen. Also I'm actually using CS3. And is Aero Snap when you move a window close to the screen's edge it maximizes/takes a half of the screen?
roy69, All the services are running, otherwise the "pointer star" functions wouldn't work

 

[Funnycat]

Actually, I've just noticed that the pressure sensitivity works like a charm in Windows Notes and handwriting... Weird

 

[Saltgrass]

Yes, Aero Snap is what you mentioned and more. There is a tutorial on it in that section. It shows how to turn it off. This is just a long shot, but it would not hurt to try.

I am holding off installing CS4 to test to see if you find a solution, but if you use CS3, it won't be a good test anyway.

Do you get that floating handwriting to text window with your Tablet PC. I had never seen that before?

I suppose the Adobe forums don't have an answer about this?

 

[darkassain]

hmm hello funnycat and welcome to the forums

i have a tx2500 which has a wacom built-in....
have tried pressure sensitivity (i will try later on)
but have you calibrated with the hp/wacom found the mobility center?
i found that out in 6801 that it messes with calibration when its installed and you had to calibrated a few time to get it working (i had to calibrate it at least once a day... )
so i havent installed hp wacom drivers as of yet....
as for the pointer and those option can be changed in the tablet setting and pen and touch in the control panel...

 

[Saltgrass]

Funnycat, I finally installed CS4 and the Pen Tablet. Like you, I got no pressure sensitivity prior to installing the WACOM drivers.

After I installed the drivers I found something that would seem to be directly related to your situation. If you haven't seen it, go to Start Menu - Pen Tablet folder. Try using the Pen tablet properties. I haven't tried changing the settings, but it looks like it might do what you want. My pen currently goes the entire desktop whether I have CS4 open or not.

If there is some specific detail you need me to check, let me know how to set it up and what to look for.

Just a note, the next time I rebooted after installing CS4, I got a boot error message-first one. Don't know for sure it was related to CS4..

 

[Funnycat]

Ok, a small update - I installed build 7048 for the XDDM fixes and the tablet situation is still the same:
- The only driver installed is the Penabled HP Minidriver
- Pressure sensitivity works in Sticky notes, not in Photoshop
- Q buttons work
I'll try to keep the minidriver and install the wacom driver now.

 

[Funnycat]

Okay, now that I installed the driver, the pressure sensitivity works in Photoshop, although I bumped into another issue - now the side button on the pen would always right click when I press it even though in wacom settings it's set to hold&tap which should make the right click registered from tapping the screen while holding the button

 

[Funnycat]

Ooookay, and now for a non-apparent reason I can't draw in sticky notes, it thinks the pen is a mouse

 

[garysgold]

I remember having problems with my tablet (Intuos 2) in Vista. Wasn't the same as here. I ended up turning off 'desktop composition'. Advanced system settings/Performance settings. Has anyone tried that?

I haven't had this problem in 7, so probably doesn't have anything to do with it. Just grasping at straws.

Gary

 

[vitaebello]

Bamboo Fun stuck in top left corner

I have the same problem as funnycat. Did you resolve it? With windows 7 RC my wacom bamboo fun only works for the top left corner of the screen when i use photoshop 7. I also found the same problem in Inkscape, Blender and Open Canvas. I am using the Wacom 5.1.1-1 drivers. When i close those programs the pointer returns to the full screen and seems to function properly. Anybody else have this problem and maybe a solution?


Thanks

 

[Arre]

Well I had the same problem with my Bamboo Fun and Windows 7 Pro and I've found a "sort of" fix

I stopped the tablet services,
first the: TabletServicePen and second the: TabletInputService
Then I started them again, in the same order! (tried "restart", but this didn't work)

Dont really know if the order has to be the same but this is how I did it.
Since this happens every time I reboot. I have made a .bat file which contains the code bellow. This is very handy since a only have to execute this file instead of typing it manually or go into the control panel...

BAT file
1. Make a .txt document
2. Open it and copy/paste the code bellow
3. Save and close it
4. Rename the file to wacom-restore.bat instead of *.txt
5. Select the file and press enter
6. Now should everything be OK, but you have to do this every time you restart the computer!

net stop TabletServicePen
net stop TabletInputService
net start TabletServicePen
net start TabletInputService

//Best regards
Arre