Comment 2 for bug 216347

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In , John Goerzen (jgoerzen) wrote : Re: Bug#315142: wacom-tools: Please include wacomcpl

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:09:53PM +0930, Ron wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:27:31PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > The source distribution includes wacomcpl which, among other things, can
> > calibrate the stylus on a table PC. It would be nice to see this
> > included in wacom-tools (or a separate binary package, at your
> > discretion).
>
> Is there anything this can do that can't be done with xsetwacom (which
> is in the package) ?

Yes, it can be used to calibrate the stylus on a tablet PC. xsetwacom
doesn't have that feature. (It displays "targets" on the screen to
select with the stylus, and generates appropriate calls to xsetwacom
based on the stylus offset from them.) A very important and useful
feature :-)

> Work is underway on a couple of fronts for a gui interface that doesn't
> involve getting all covered in tcl. It is planned for the package to

It's pretty easy in this case, just depend on tk8.4 and that should be
it.

-- John