May 03, 2004
Tablets need pen tilt support
None of the current Tablet PCs support pen tilt. Too bad. Where would pen tilt be useful? Graphics programs would be one category. Wouldn't a version of ArtRage that supports pen tilt be amazing?
But pen tilt has value that goes far beyond drawing and painting apps. In fact, every program needs pen tilt right now. Pen tilt would be useful for the OS to guess where the pen and hand are oriented so that pop-up menus and flying hints and the like can appear elsewhere.
From what I understand pen tilt is actually supported in the digitizer that your Tablet PC has right now. Plus, the Tablet PC SDK is ready to handle the pen tilt data. Unfortunately though the hardware does not enable the pen tilt data. I've heard from OEMs that they don't enable pen tilt because of power concerns. Hmm. Surprising that there would be this much power loss due to pen tilt sensing.
Hopefully as Tablet competition heats up pen tilt support will be added. Till then, anyone know if there's a way to enable pen tilt on an existing Tablet?
Posted by Loren at May 3, 2004 10:18 AMAbsolutely agree! for me, I naturally hold to pen differently for either point-and -click or handwriting. This causes some issues with registration due to pen angle.
-Curt
M 205 user. :}