Macintosh Development

The Wacom pen is a mouse, but so much more. It can track position, like a standard mouse, but also report the pressure with which the pen is being pressed, the rotation and tilt of the pen, and what buttons on the pen are being pressed. The sample projects below outline how to access this information from the Wacom driver.

Macintosh Tablet Developer's Guide

Sample Code

	Cocoa Tiger Tablets	Drawing application which uses built-in AppKit support for the full suite of tablet events.
	Cocoa Simple	AppKit sample code for pressure-sensitive drawing.
	Cocoa Complex	Extension of Cocoa Simple, gets all tablet info except dual device.
	Tablet Controls	Demonstrates how applications can take control of tablet properties using Wacom's Apple Event interface. Includes samples for modifying ExpressKeys, Touch Rings/Strips, and Intuos4 OLED displays, as well as a utility library upon which you can base your own custom application.
	Tablet Mapping	Shows how to write an application that maps from the tablet space to a screen, the whole desktop, or just a single window
	Tablet Driver Summary	Shows how to access tablet properties and settings via AppleScript.

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Touch Functions

Following is a list of the supported gestures for OS 10.4 and greater, and the respective default functions that the driver sends to the application:

2-Finger Gesture	Function sent to API
Zoom in	opt+f16 *
Zoom out	opt+f15 *
Rotate CW	opt+f13 (5° increments);
Rotate CCW	opt+f14 (5° increments)
Vertical scroll	scroll messages - vertical
Horizontal scroll	scroll messages - horizontal
3-Finger Gesture	Function sent to API
Swipe to right	command+] (forward)
Swipe to left	command+[ (back)
4-Finger Gesture	Function sent to API
Swipe to left/right	command+tab (app switcher)
Swipe up	F4 (show desktop)
Swipe down	F9 (show/hide exposé)

Notes:
* Requires driver v.5.2.1 or later (available for downloading at www.wacom.com/downloads/drivers.php) .