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Wacom Tablet + Dosbox work-around

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First post, by enemyboss

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Hi,

I've been playing with Deluxe Paint II for a project and I've been happy to discover a somewhat successful way of getting my Wacom Graphire 4 tablet to work under XP with DOSBox 0.73.

The idea is simply to use Windowed mode, and disabling mouse auto-lock. By setting the window size to the desktop (or any usable size), the net effect is the stylus operates as regular pointing device.

In my DOSBox.conf for DeleuxePaint, I had these settings:

[sdl]
windowresolution=<desktop_width>x<desktop_height>
autolock = false

I think using Fullscreen puts the mouse cursor translation entirely under the input subsystem of SDL, which as far as I know doesn't support tablet input yet.

If for some reason DOSBox acquires a lock on the mouse, I simply press CTRL-F10 to restore the stylus.

When SDL incorporates Tablet support, I think DOSBox could emulate a tablet driver for DOS art programs that support the full range of stylus input.

BTW, I know its late but congrats to the DOSBox team for being selected project of the month of May at sourceforge.net.

Reply 1 of 2, by archsan

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Hi, enemyboss!

I have a Fujitsu notebook with a Wacom tablet. First thing I imagine upon reading this thread is playing Monkey Island on that tablet--something i wanted to do since long, but haven't put serious thought about it. I mean, that would be "Point-and-Click"--right on the screen!

I haven't tried installing Windows 98SE on that notebook (drivers may or may not be available for every component), so this workaround for DOSBox is certainly helpful.

I'm sure if we could give a visual of using tablet (especially with on-screen tablet) to play classic point-and-click adventure games, more and more people are going to be interested in this, and therefore, more helps (or nags 🤣 ) to add tablet support to DOSBox.

In the meanwhile, glad to see this is achievable with the current version of DOSBox.

Thank you for the tips!

Reply 2 of 2, by Dominus

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For Monkey Island I'd suggest trying ScummVM instead of Dosbox. And just maybe ScummVM is handling tablet input better...
But as enemyboss hints at, the problem is much more likely to depend on SDL which both Dosbox and ScummVM are using...

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