VoiDPlugins — TingAlex Enhanced

This fork of VoiDPlugins adds a Windows-focused version of Precision Control for OpenTabletDriver. It is designed for handwriting and drawing workflows driven by a precision touchpad: show, reposition, and nudge a visible precision area without reaching for the tablet buttons.

The enhanced plugin is displayed as Precision Control (TingAlex Enhanced), so it can be distinguished from the upstream filter in OpenTabletDriver.

Precision Control v1.0.0 quick start

Requirements

• Windows 10 or Windows 11
• OpenTabletDriver 0.6.x (tested with 0.6.7)
• A Windows Precision Touchpad is optional, but recommended for gesture control

Installation

1. Download PrecisionControl-v1.0.0.zip from the latest release.
2. Exit OpenTabletDriver, including its daemon.
3. Extract PrecisionControl.dll into a dedicated plugin directory such as %LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenTabletDriver\Plugins\Precision Control (TingAlex Enhanced).
4. Start OpenTabletDriver, add Precision Control (TingAlex Enhanced) under Filters, and save the configuration.

If an earlier review build is installed, replace its PrecisionControl.dll while OpenTabletDriver is stopped. Keeping a backup of the plugin directory and %LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenTabletDriver\settings.json is recommended before upgrading.

Default shortcuts

All global actions share the modifier selection configured in the filter. The default modifiers are Ctrl+Alt+Shift.

Action	Default shortcut	Suggested touchpad gesture	Behavior
Show or hide	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P	Three-finger tap	Toggles the precision area at the selected activation anchor.
Reposition	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R	Four-finger tap	Shows a hidden area or immediately rebuilds the visible area at the current mouse position.
Nudge up	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up	Three-finger swipe up	Moves the visible area upward by the configured vertical step.
Nudge down	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Down	Three-finger swipe down	Moves the visible area downward by the configured vertical step.
Nudge left	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left	Three-finger swipe left	Moves the visible area left by the configured horizontal step.
Nudge right	Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right	Three-finger swipe right	Moves the visible area right by the configured horizontal step.

Open Windows Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Touchpad > Advanced gestures and assign each gesture to its matching custom shortcut. Repositioning and nudging are ignored only while pen pressure is above zero, preventing an accidental area move during a stroke. They remain available while the pen is hovering or out of range.

Plugins

Experimental

MeL

  Machine Learning Plugin

Reconstructor

  Mathematically perfect "anti-hardware-smoothing"

Filters

Precision Control (TingAlex Enhanced)

  Dynamic sensitivity switching

Unified settings

The enhanced filter keeps its precision multiplier, border, and Windows global hotkey settings together under Filters > Precision Control (TingAlex Enhanced). The hotkey uses RegisterHotKey, not a low-level keyboard hook, and can toggle precision even when the pen is out of range. The activation anchor can come from the last pen position, the current mouse position, or whichever pointer moved most recently.

The toggle works whether the pen is touching, hovering, or out of range. The separate reposition action shows a hidden area at the current Windows mouse position or directly rebuilds an already-visible area there without an intermediate hide or border flicker.

Precision Control also registers Ctrl+Alt+Shift plus the four arrow keys for moving an active precision area. Map those shortcuts to three-finger swipes in Windows. Directional moves are ignored only while pen pressure is above zero; hovering and out-of-range pens do not restrict them. Horizontal and vertical move distances default to 20% of the precision-area width and height and can be configured independently.

Precision area positioning

Precision Area Positioning provides two coordinate modes:

• Screen Relative (Legacy) preserves the original behavior. It scales the full monitor area around the activation point, so the pointer keeps the same relative position it had on the monitor.
• Pointer Anchored creates a fixed-size precision area around a configurable activation anchor. Anchor Position X (%) and Anchor Position Y (%) choose where that anchor sits inside the area. The defaults are 10% from the left and 10% from the top; 50%/50% centers the area on the anchor.

Activation Anchor Source selects that anchor:

• Last Active Pointer (default) uses whichever moved most recently: the OpenTabletDriver pen cursor or the physical mouse/touchpad cursor.
• Last Pen Position keeps using the last pen cursor, with a mouse fallback before the first pen report.
• Current Mouse Position always uses the Windows mouse cursor, with a pen fallback if the mouse position is unavailable.

The area keeps the exact configured relationship to its anchor. It is not shifted back inside a display near an edge, and directional moves may also place part of the area off-screen. Moving the area does not synthesize pointer movement, so the current pen cursor stays still during the gesture. On the next pen report, the full tablet/output area is mapped proportionally into the translated precision area: tablet top-left maps to area top-left, center maps to center, and bottom-right maps to bottom-right.

When precision mode is active on Windows, the filter displays a thin, semi-transparent border around the effective precision area. The border is always on top, does not take focus, and lets mouse and pen input pass through. Its visibility, #RRGGBB color, thickness, and opacity can be configured on the enhanced filter. The default is black at 40% opacity.

See Microsoft's touch gesture documentation for Windows Precision Touchpad gesture configuration.

Configuration notes

• The reposition key and four nudge keys are independent, but reuse the same Ctrl/Alt/Shift/Windows modifier selection as the toggle key.
• Windows global shortcuts must be unique. If registration fails, choose a different key or modifier combination and restart OpenTabletDriver.
• Border color accepts #RRGGBB. The default border is black, 2 px thick, at 40% opacity.
• Pointer Anchored intentionally allows the precision area to extend beyond a monitor edge so its location remains predictable.
• To uninstall, stop OpenTabletDriver, remove the enhanced plugin directory, then remove the enhanced filter from the saved configuration if necessary.

See CHANGELOG.md for release history.

Output Modes

WindowsInk

  Pen pressure support
  100% compliance to Windows Ink
  Upto 8192 levels of pressure

Touchpad-friendly hover

Enable Touchpad-friendly hover on the Windows Ink output mode when Windows suppresses precision-touchpad gestures while a pen is in range. Hover movement is mirrored through the OS mouse cursor, while contact, pressure, tilt, and pen buttons continue to use Windows Ink. This makes touchpad gestures available while the pen is hovering, at the cost of native pen-hover semantics until the tip touches the tablet.

VMultiMode

  Classic VMulti input emulation

TouchEmu

  Touch input emulation (RawInput incompatible)
  Natural Scrolling everywhere

Bindings

ScriptRunner

  Bind shell commands, scripts or programs to OTD