dannytaylor
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7 years ago Thanks, I appreciate your comments!
- This one's a bit tricky. I agree that needing a Windows VM or partition is a big usability issue and I'd like to avoid this, but there are some technical issues that I haven't solved.
- Huion reuses USB identifiers for several different tablets that they make, so using according to lsusb my Huion H610 is identified the same as my Huion G10T. However the USB traffic that they send to my computer to indicate drawing is different so the same driver that will work with the H610 won't work with the G10T.
- To add to this problem, by default the device doesn't send all necessary information (I think pressure data was missing) until some code in the official driver "activates" some switch in the wireless adapter. So the official Windows driver is needed to switch the wireless adapter into "full function" mode. It also sends USB traffic differently before and after this activation which means I can't as easily create a one size fits all implementation.
- Ultimately to solve this I need to find the correct data that the official driver is sending and then emulate it; then the Windows VM won't be needed. Last time I tried solving this I got stumped, but I do think it's the most important improvement I could make to this project.
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- The GUI request is much simpler. I initially made this to see if I could without much planning which is why it's just a couple of messy scripts. I wasn't sure if anyone else would use this, so I basically only made it as configurable as I needed.
- I don't have any experience with making GUI's with python so I would just need to find time to read up on it and get around to doing it. Not sure if I will, but I see the value in making some sort of interface.
I also might just rewrite this in Lua if I can get some modules working, in which case I'd probably plan around implementing a GUI config and tray icon.
If you're interested fixing tablet issues I'd also take a look at the issue I submitted in the Digimend project here, and also the other project issues and the debug process people have used.
Sorry to bother you, but I am not satisfied with the current version yet. I wanna share my opinion on improving this driver.
1.Maybe there is no need to use a Windows VM to get it work. It is possible to detect which driver is the G10T tablet using lsusb. You can ask the user to choose which one is the tablet.
2.As an artist, I have to say it is really unconvenient to use the driver without GUI config. I hope there is a GUI possible in the future.
At last thank you for developing this driver:-)
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