Obviously, different applications will be coded differently with regards
to threads which makes the problem seem XSI specific. I have asked
internally to see if there are any updates on this issue that I can pass
along...
Cheers!
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Brent
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Kris Rivel
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:26 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: semi OT : Wacom hanging
Hmmmmm...interesting....would be nice to know if XSI does look for two
mouse events when stopping playback.....can anyone from Softimage
comment?
Kris
Christian Rittener wrote:
> I don't believe for one second it's not a XSI problem. Wacom Intuos 2
> and 3 work fine for playback control in all other applications I've
used.
>
> To stop XSI playback with Wacoms Intuos Intuos 2 or 3: after tapping
> the play icon to stop, pull your pen vertically WAY up above the icon.
> You'll look and feel like an artist. At least it works here. It's as
> if the playback stop detection routine wants two events (click down
> then release), whereas the start playback is satisfied with only click
> down. It seems the Wacom 2 and 3 have a bigger vertical range over
> which they detect the pen (bigger than the Intuos 1), so there. All
> this is my theory and it could very well be utter BS.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Christian
>
>
> Kris Rivel wrote:
>> Yeah, I share your pain. I think the Wacom priority issues is
>> somewhat deeper than the tablet.exe process. We've nagging Soft for
>> quite some time about this and I think the answer was that it was not
>> XSI's problem but either a Windows issue or a Wacom one. For me, the
>> most annoying problem is trying to stop playback. I often have to
>> bump or nudge my mouse to get the playback to stop since Wacom clicks
>> during playback seem to often have no effect.
>>
>> Kris
>>
>> Olivier Jeannel wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I'm using xsi on a HP laptop (DV9000). I'm using an intuos 3 wacom.
>>> When xsi renders region, the wacom is uneffective, mean the pointer
>>> is moving but left or right clic gives nothing. until the Render
>>> region ends. A bit annoying... (can't change shading on the fly,
etc.)
>>> I tried to give maximum priority to the "tablet.exe" in the Task
>>> Manager with no success, seems I'm not allowed to do this.
>>> Does anyone know a way of forcing the wacom priority, so that XSI
>>> can obey to all my desires ?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Btw, are there any other user of xsi with similar config, there are
>>> some other conflicts that i didn't manage to fix yet that I may
>>> would like to discuss....
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