Re: FLASH: OT - Wacom/Graphire drawing tablet - More trouble

[Catherine Kunicki]

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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