Pen Support

Since version 2.0.24 the gesture extension has added support for Pen devices that present proximity, left click (via nib) Right click barrel button, pressure and eraser features.

Tablet/Pen device inputs are always passed into the system as tablet events. Pen nib and co-ordinate information bypasses the gesture engine, i.e. is not processed for gesture consideration.

Currently there is no support for the pen upper side switch (as seen on Wacom pen type devices).

When a pen device is detected you can now define the min and max pressure range of the device in the gesture settings dialog. When these settings are not defined the gesture software calculates the maximum theoretical range based on the pressure definition of the device as configured in the driver. For Wacom / Surface Pro and Slate pens this is defined as 10 bits giving a theoretical range of 0 to 1023. However in data logs we have captured the actual range seems to be in the order of 900 to 100 (dropping immediately to 0 thereafter).