XWinTab: Tablet Input for Painting on Wine

Wine's built-in implementation of Wintab does not work with Rebelle or Expresii. XWinTab works around this by being loaded by the application and creating its own connection to X11.

This software is experimental and has not been tested extensively.

Requirements

• A Wacom-compatible tablet that works in native Linux applications. The device name should include "stylus".
• Libraries: libxcb.so.1 and libxcb-xinput.so.0. On Debian/Ubuntu, install the libxcb-xinput0 package.
• To build from source: install libxcb-xinput-dev, wine64-tools, and gcc-mingw-w64.

Installation for Rebelle

1. With Rebelle installed, copy both wintab32.dll and XWinTabHelper.dll.so into the installation directory (the one containing Rebelle 7.exe).
2. Add a DLL override for wintab32.dll so it loads instead of the built-in version.
3. Configure Rebelle to use the Wacom Compatible (wintab) input option.

Installation for Expresii

1. With Expresii installed, copy both wintab32.dll and XWinTabHelper.dll.so into the installation directory (the one containing X.exe).
2. Add a DLL override for wintab32.dll so it loads instead of the built-in version.
3. Configure Expresii to use the Wacom Compatible (wintab) input option.

Debugging the DLL

1. Run the application with logging enabled, for example:

   env XWINTAB_LOG=1 WINEPREFIX="your_wine_prefix" wine "C:\\users\\Public\\Desktop\\application.lnk"

2. An XWinTabLog.txt file will appear in WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users/your_username/ containing the log.

Implemented API Functions

• Context: WTOpenA, WTOpenW, WTClose, WTEnable, WTOverlap
• Packet: WTPacket, WTPacketsGet, WTPacketsPeek, WTQueueSizeGet, WTQueueSizeSet
• Info: WTInfoA, WTInfoW
• Get/Set: WTGetA, WTSetA (partial implementations)
• Utilities: err_dlg

For more information about partial implementations, see WinTab.c.

Additional Notes

This software is provided without any warranty (see LICENSE) and is used at your own risk.

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This fork is based on Graham’s original XWinTab implementation with minor improvements and updates.