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Subject: | Re: FLASH: OT - Wacom/Graphire drawing tablet - More trouble |
From: | Catherine Kunicki |
Date: | Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:03:07 GMT |
I had problems with the wacom tablet too. But I threw out the prefs,
remapped the applications the tablet can "see" in the control panel (mac)
and rebuilt the desktop and it seems to be working.
Catherine
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>From: John Morton <appliancercn [dot] com>
>To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>
>Subject: Re: FLASH: OT - Wacom/Graphire drawing tablet - More trouble
>Date: Sun, Feb 13, 2000, 1:39 PM
>
> I too have had trouble using my Wacom tablet and Flash. I've installed the
> latest beta driver (4.5.1) like Anna did, but with no luck.
>
> This is the problem: when I draw, it always starts drawing above where my
> pencil or brush actually is on the work area. I've had this trouble for a
> year now, with 2 different Wacom tablets at 2 different jobs. I am currently
> working on a PowerBook G3 under OS9. I am using Flash 4a, the latest update.
> Any help would be appreciated. (This problem isn't present in other
> programs.)
>
> -John Morton
>
>> From: unique <uniqueptd [dot] net>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 00:47:26 -0500
>> To: flasherchinwag [dot] com
>> Subject: Re: FLASH: OT - Wacom/Graphire drawing tablet -- Bad Advice Warning!
>>
>>>>> But the fact remains that I do still have
>>>>> this problem on my mac after following the advice of several people
>>>>> & faqs, so i would say that they does seem to be a problem & that
>>>>> alone does not make this bad advice.
>>>>
>>>> Well I have to disagree with you there.
>>>> You need to remember that there are many "newbies" of various sorts
>>>> here, who just may naively to take the advice they read here.
>>>
>>> So I finally got the pad to work correctly -- the final solution involved
>>> downloading the 4.5.1 beta driver (thanks Bob) from the wacom site,
>>
>> As 4.5.1 is a beta, I'd prefer to use 4.40 if I could. Have you tried it?
>>
>>> then searching
>>> through the extension folder & control panels to find every last wacom
>>> extension & control panel --- throwing them away (i think there were about
11
>>> of them)
>>
>> All you needed to do was to make sure that only one "Wacom" control
>> panel was in the Control Panels folder, and no others of any name
>> from Wacom. Nothing Wacom in Extensions. But no need to trash them.
>>
>>> then reinstalling the new driver from scratch. You have to throw away
>>> every extension -- just installing the update without disposing of
>>> the previous
>>> extensions & control panels will not work.
>>
>> See above.
>>
>>> Not very intuitive if you ask me --- and certainly not very easy for
>>> a "newbie".
>>>
>>> The main warning I wanted to get across to the initial poster was that
>>> the intous pad with flash was a major nightmare for me --
>> ^^^ ^^
>> Your original statement was expressed in global, not personal, terms.
>>
>>> and may also
>>> prove to be a nightmare for them as well --- certainly not the sort of
>>> nightmare you want creeping up on you while in the midst of a major
>>> project....
>>
>> Then please keep asking questions and insisting on getting the answer
>> you need, as you did tonight -- that's what we do here! :-)
>
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