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# If you are just using it for farting about with
then buy whatever you can find for £20-£30 out of Argos or similar.

A little A6 size should be fine for messing with.

You'll find it awkward and weird to use to begin with, regardless of how much you spend. Perceiver with it.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 14:36, archived)
# Bought one of those once
But never could get it not to move in screen ratio rather than relative position.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 14:38, archived)
# My brain is finding it hard
to grasp your meaning.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 14:42, archived)
# My brain is finding it hard to grasp its own existence.
I like the cursor to move in a 1:1 ratio. Not the top right of the tablet is the top right of the screen and the bottom right the bottom right etc.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 14:44, archived)
# Ah - right
I suppose it's tough to make it move in a 1:1 ratio as that would entirely depend on the size of monitor the person was using.

More expensive tablets probably come with calibration software to alter this kind of thing, but I found it much cheaper to calibrate my hand to the way the tablet works.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 14:48, archived)
# Can't see your logic there. I think the 1:1 ratio would be easier to achieve.
What's the ratio between? Presumably between the pixels in the tablet and the pixels on the screen. So it doesn't involve any conversion.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 14:53, archived)
# I was assuming
that he meant moving the stylus an inch on the tablet would equal moving it an inch on the screen.

Having a 1:1 pixel ratio wouldn't be much use as far as I can work out, as you can't see the resolution grid the tablet is using.
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 14:59, archived)
# Oh.
Inches. Yeah. Those things we had before pixels.
(There's a system call to get monitor resolution information which tells you how big it is in inches, so it's not that hard.)
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 15:03, archived)
# Cheers!
(SpangleDangle >->)))'>, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 14:41, archived)
# Sound advice
My first one was a little £40 thing from Staples.

www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog/cat_sku.asp?CatIds=,&webid=3m0149&affixedcode=WW

Absolutely great, but have a look on ebay too.
(I helped save b3ta! SugarSpunSister Yeah, whatever, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 14:44, archived)
# I bought a relly nice wacom tablet a while ago. And then I sold it on ebay
as I realiased the only things i'd used it for since I bought it was silly CDC style doodles.
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 15:20, archived)