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From: koswix26 Oct 2016 07:46
To: graphitone 38 of 84
Ah yeah saw those as well. Want to get the biggest I can, as I found the small bamboo thing I had years ago to be far too small to be any real use.

Are you using it as a mouse replacement too, or just for art faggery?
From: graphitone26 Oct 2016 08:33
To: koswix 39 of 84
I don't think it's accurate enough for a mouse replacement. Nope, it's probably too accurate. When moving the cursor's a bit erratic, due to it being too sensitive (and there may well be a setting to reduce this) and it's picking up every bit of wobble from my hand. I'm pretty steady handed and it amplifies every shake.

I'm working across two monitors and like Smiffy alluded to before, they're different resolutions and the absolute positioning given the tablet's ratio makes scrolling between them a little odd.
From: koswix26 Oct 2016 11:44
To: graphitone 40 of 84
Bugger. I'm shakey enough as it is  T_T
From: graphitone26 Oct 2016 13:48
To: koswix 41 of 84
Switch to decaff?
 
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)26 Oct 2016 16:09
To: graphitone 42 of 84
Haven't really seen the cursor shakiness you describe at all. I've got my tablet mapped to span both displays (a 1080p led, and a 20" crt @ 1400x1050), and it acts like a super fast and very precise mouse. I seem to not use it very often at all these days though. My stylus has a busted switch (or more accurately a lost switch after I dropped it on the kitchen tile floor and it skittered off to parts unknown) for doing fancy keyboard combo stuffs. It still works fine as a *mouse replacement* though but I find it easier to mouse with my right hand and type with my left, so less disruptive that way.
EDITED: 26 Oct 2016 16:10 by DSMITHHFX
From: koswix26 Oct 2016 17:04
To: graphitone 43 of 84
It's not the coffee, it's the pent up rage and aggression.
From: graphitone26 Oct 2016 19:36
To: koswix CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 44 of 84
Found these options after having a play around tonight, the monitor mapping one's the most interesting.

 
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From: ANT_THOMAS26 Oct 2016 19:41
To: graphitone 45 of 84
So if you map the tablet to the screen, does a tap/contact with the stylus move the pointer to that spot, then a mouse click would be a button on the stylus?

or is the stylus tip a button?
From: graphitone26 Oct 2016 19:58
To: ANT_THOMAS 46 of 84
Quote: 
does a tap/contact with the stylus move the pointer to that spot

Aye, that's right.

There's a rocker style switch on the pen which can do a whole host of things (2nd pic attached here)

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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)26 Oct 2016 20:08
To: graphitone 47 of 84
quote: graphitone
There's a rocker style switch on the pen which can do a whole host of things

That's the thing I lost.  :-((

Those pens aren't cheap either, if you can even find them.

From: koswix26 Oct 2016 22:09
To: ANT_THOMAS 48 of 84
Think you kind of hover with teh stylus to move the mouse, contact is equivalent to left click. So contact + movement = left click plus movement (ie drag, paint, eraser etc.)
From: graphitone27 Oct 2016 09:26
To: koswix ANT_THOMAS 49 of 84
What Kos said, I was getting the wrong end of the stick there.

But you can take the stylus away from the tablet and put it down at another spot and the cursor will appear at that point on your screen, you can also hover and move it too. The distance it's effective over is around 0.5cm.
From: koswix27 Oct 2016 14:10
To: graphitone 50 of 84
Been scouring ebay, but the medium ones seem rare second hand and expensive new. Don't want a small one again is it just didn't satisfy my needs last time.
From: graphitone27 Oct 2016 14:29
To: koswix 51 of 84
Have you got the eBay phone app? Get a saved search on there and get it to notify you when new items are listed. It saves on the scouring.

I have a small one, but it still gets the job done.

 
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)27 Oct 2016 14:49
To: ALL52 of 84
YJ, YJ.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)27 Oct 2016 14:52
To: graphitone 53 of 84
Having worked with both, gotta say I prefer the small one as it's more portable and just seems faster as a mouse replacement (you can literally take the cursor across two spanned displays with the flick of a wrist).

OTOH the medium is probably better for /drawing/ (which I don't use it for).
From: graphitone27 Oct 2016 15:34
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 54 of 84
Ever tried playing a game with it?

Just thought it might be suited to RTS games.
EDITED: 27 Oct 2016 15:34 by GRAPHITONE
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)27 Oct 2016 16:56
To: graphitone 55 of 84
Nah, I doubt it would be much good in games, at least not the ones I like to play. Ever used a joystick with an FPS? It's really good!
From: koswix27 Oct 2016 18:06
To: graphitone 56 of 84
I do. Problem is there are a squillion model numbers, and a lot are just listed as "wacom tablet".

Got my eye on a couple of intuous 4 mediums that look to be going around the 60 mark..
From: koswix27 Oct 2016 18:07
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 57 of 84
Absolutely, John.