Wacom Tablet, ring round pen cursor

[MBernard]

I use an Intuos Wacom Tablet in Photoshop CS4 x64, and I've been driven crazy by an animated ring that appears when I touch the pen tip to a menu or slider. It made my movements much less precise. E.g. when I tried to drag a slider a short distance (say, 100% opacity to 95%), the pen wouldn't grab the slider at first; and then it would make much too big an adjustment (100% to 50%...).

I've now tracked down the solution, posted on the EU Wacom forum 2 days ago:Wacom Forum - Wacom Europe GmbH | View topic - small annoying things on vista...

Here's what it says:

"Vista has the 'pen inking' from XP TabletPC edition integrated, allowing gesture and handwriting recognition. You can control the settings in a special control panel for this, called 'TabletPC Input' panel. [Pen and Touch, W7.]
*Disable 'Press and Hold' to remove that circle.*

"You could also disable the service 'TabletPC Input Service' or go to device manager, select Human Interface Devices' and disable WacomVirtualHID.*

"Then Vista does not see a pen devices and will not activate those features. The tablet will still work fine on desktop and in usual pressure sensitive applications."

I had already disabled the tablet PC in Services, but apparently that wasn't enough. I disabled Press & Hold, and the ring has vanished.

This is probably well known to Wacom/Photoshop users who migrated to Windows 7 from Vista, but I migrated from XPPro, and the info was tolerably hard to find online, so I'm posting it here in case anyone finds it useful.

Mary

 

[carioca]

Thanks for the info! I have an old Wacom 12x12 tablet and am thinking of using it with Win7...

 

[copernicus]

It's not a problem it's an option to duplicate right clicking by "click and hold".

 

[kestrel]

Any idea on how to get rid of the splash mark on pen taps?

 

[copernicus]

Yeah, there's a setting somewhere in the touch panel. I'm not on my touch computer right now, but I'll check later.

 

[kestrel]

Fantastic. Can't wait to hear back.

 

[Griff]

Anyone find out how to remove the splash animation yet? ive disabled all my mouse options and its still there when i use my pen. drivin my nuts.

 

[darkassain]

Anyone find out how to remove the splash animation yet? ive disabled all my mouse options and its still there when i use my pen. drivin my nuts.

it should be in your tablet pc options (you must install your touch/Pen drivers first to have this ability if recall)

i had it installed but it completly messed up my configuration so now im awaiting for either wacom or HP to fix this...

 

[kestrel]

It's not a wacom issue. This same splashing graphic occurs for my Adesso tablet. It is a windows feature (setting? maybe, seems permanent to me). I can get it to disappear if I uninstall the tablet functionality.
as in --> Control panel--->Add remove programs --> Windows Components/ Turn windows features on and off---> Tablet PC components.

I consider this akin to killing the patient as it disables all windows tablet functionality such as inking in word/excel and the tablet input panel. I have yet to find a setting to turn this damn thing off.

 

[copernicus]

The ring and the splash will disappear if you change your tablet settings from "pen" to "mouse" mode after you install the wacom drivers.

My touch screen had a mouse/touch setting as well. Once I switched the "droplet" disappeared.

On my Wacom tablet, both disappeared because my pen has "buttons" on it to replicate the double click/right click.

So Install the drivers ->control panle -> Pen & Tablet Properties -> Tracking mode to Mouse instead of pen.

 

[kestrel]

There is one small problem with that. I need the pen mode for my work. Try writing your name in mouse mode!

I have another update. I received an evaluation copy of the Wacom tablet. Very briefly the splashes came back... until I re enabled tablet mode. Ctrlpanel->Add/remove windows components-->Tablet PC components.

So now i have this situation
A) When Tablet PC components are installed
Adesso tablet experiences splash marks...
Wacom tablet does not...
B) When Tablet PC components are not installed
Wacom tablet experiences splash marks...
Adesso tablet does not...

Color that bizarre.

 

[copernicus]

That sucks, I haven't really used my tablet for writing purposes so I never noticed, heh.

 

[tscoffee115]

Can you give some more sample question and answers. How great your info is! It really useful for me. Thanks.


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[Restroom]

I found the registry locations responsible for these animations, which in previous versions were referred to as "Dynamic Pen Feedback." It's all controlled by WISP, the Windows Inking Services Platform, and there is a section which enumerates WISP settings which is mirrored in these three locations across the registry:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Pen\SysEventParameters
HKUS\**\Software\Microsoft\Wisp\Pen\SysEventParameters
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wisp\Pen\SysEventParameters

If you're new to working with the registry, and you don't know what that means, let me know and I'll make a deployable reg patch you can just double-click. No time tonight though. Anyway:

Concerning this topic, I think the only values that control the splash and other animations are Splash and UIFeedbackMode, which you should set to (decimal) 0. If you have UAC on it's going to give you fits, as usual, and likely one of those branches is going to tell you you don't have permission in any case, so you'll need to give yourself permission for that key.

Also interesting is how many other awful things the default WISP settings impart to pen functionality. I went through and set almost everything in those keys to 0, because on the desktop I never use handwriting input or Flicks and I sure don't need these settings confounding the rather delicate setup I impart through the Wacom driver and some applications like Painter which add yet another level of fine tweaking to the whole process.
Take a look at the (mostly) self-explanatory value names under those keys and you might notice that things like WaitTime and HoldMode may also be impacting the responsiveness of your tablet pen in various applications.
Also, I've noticed that by default (under \Wisp\MultiTouch) Win7 just assumes that you're using multitouch capabilities when you enable tablet functionality, which could cock things up royally for multiple-tool users.

 

[kestrel]

Great. I'll dig through keys when I have the time.

 

[kestrel]

Ok.
You know what, this just hit the top of my todo list. So I make screen captures for a living. I ended up getting rid of hte problem awhile back by clean installing windows. Just today the splash marks came back when I opened the input panel for the first time. I can't get rid of them. I need the inking tools so I can mark up word. But the cursor splashing is unacceptable for making screen recordings.

I tried going through and modifying the registry and did indeed hit a wall with UAC. I am the administrator/owner of this machine and i still can't figure out how to get around this nonsense. I can't earn money until this gets cleared up. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Mike.

 

[Restroom]

Well, unfortunately I disable UAC as about the first step after an install, so I'm not sure exactly where UAC will be interfering, but I can walk you through taking permissions manually for the reg branch you'll be modifying. It's really simple: you right-click on the key (the folder on the left pane containing the values on the right) and select Permissions, then click the Advanced button, go to the Ownership tab (I'm writing this from memory on an XP machine, so forgive me if my labels aren't accurate), and change the owner to your user account name. OK out of that, go back and grant full permissions to yourself, OK out of the window. You can then modify all the values; after you've done that close regedit, log off and log back in, all the changes shuld stick.

If that doesn't work, let me know, I'll hop on the Win7 machine and give precise instructions.

 

[Restroom]

Oh yeah, one other update, for those who, like me, set almost everything to zero and also use the Mouse Gestures add-on in IE8 - there may be some compatibility issues here as IE8 accesses those keys and if you use rocker gestures the rightclick menu gets triggered on a rocker gesture, which is annoying. I solved this (stopgap) by uninstalling Win7's Tablet PC components (again, I don't use the handwriting input on that machine), and all seems to be well, but until I have the time to go through and determine precisely what each value translates to, this is a pretty rare issue for a major fix so I'm not going to worry much about it.

 

[kestrel]

Thanks on the instructions for the permissions!

I went through and changed all the keys using the find and find next functions.

First I tried just the "Splash" and "UIFeedbackMode" keys. Setting all of those equal to 0, I rebooted, to no effect. The splash marks are still there.

Then I tried setting additional keys equal to 0. I haven't gotten through them all yet, but I still haven't managed to find the proper key. You sure it wasn't another key?
Mike

 

[juzerneem]

1. Open Local Group Policy Editor:Run... gpedit.msc
2. Navigate to User Configuration - Administrative Templates - Windows Components - Tablet PC - Cursors
3. Enable the Turn off pen feedback setting.

:shock: finally!!