b3ta.com board
You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » Messageboard » XXX » Message 6572550 (Thread)

# 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.
(, 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.
(, 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.
(, 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.
(, 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.)
(, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 15:03, archived)