Intuos how to map tablet to WINDOW?

Graham W

• February 13, 2025 04:57

I have an Intuos CTL-6100WL, and would like to map the drawing area to one or another specific application window (In Win10x64, FWIW).  Ie: I want to draw into a specific drawing application window, not my entire large monitor, and I want to continue to draw into that application window even if I move the window.

I see in Table Properties no option to do that, and a chat session with Support seems to confirm that.

Is there any special setting or 3rd party helper app that can make this happen?

Right now the closest method seems to be to use Tablet Properties > Mapping, then Screen Area > Portion, then tediously select a region of screen (where the target window happens to be currently)... and then even more tediously select a rectangle of tablet area to get a similar aspect ratio so that the pen motion scaling is equal in X and Y directions.

Ideally, I would invoke some control panel, click "map to Window", then click the window, and away we go. I would have this control panel automatically designate an area of the tablet with same aspect ratio as the selected window. And obviously I would have the control panel apparatus update these settings if I move or resize the window.

 

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  João

  • February 13, 2025 16:51

  Hi Graham W, 
  From the Wacom driver settings, there are no means to map to a specific App window as the driver that is active on the screen. The only means to do this, is to map to a portion as you already described above. 

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  Graham W

  • February 14, 2025 01:26

  > there are no means to map to a specific App window 
  > as the driver that is active on the screen

  That seems like a non-sequitur, but if the point is that the built in Wacom driver doesn't do what I'm asking, then sure, that's why I'm inquiring also whether there's a 3rd party solution to this.

  I did discover this related effort: "Wacom Tablet to Window Mapping" for Linux.

  https://gist.github.com/rschroll/60dc8c118e6751604a5321ee5b16f251

  There are some thoughtful comments and user experience discussion in the script. 

  I'm looking for something similar for MS Windows, and it should continue to keep the mapping coordinated with the window, rather than just run once. (Though re-running a script after each window move, especially from a hot key, would be better than the current situation.)

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