Quote Originally Posted by sastian View Post
Sketchbook pro - half gets it. they have pen only mode in their android aps that use s-pen tech (wacom licensed) they have pen only input mode in their "sketchbook for tablet" available on windows 10 and surface but the tools are rationed out to not being usable and canvas size cannot be customized. thier full professional version though is lacking this feature. which is where all their real tools are.

Sketchbook has exactly the same problem we're having. Our Android app also does stylus only mode, our iPad app offer palm rejection, our Windows 10 app is designed for touch devices, but ArtRage 4 and Sketchbook's 'professional version' are desktop programs. It's easy to add palm rejection to touch apps, because the stylus system and OS support it properly, but the desktop environment isn't designed to act the same way and has to be modified to perform like a touch app. Sometimes these workarounds don't actually work well, or only work for certain kinds of programs.

It doesn't matter how long 'the technology' has been around if it hasn't really changed. We added the option to disable multitouch to allow people to draw easily in ArtRage and avoid this problem, and when we're sure we can add 'true' touch rejection, that actually works as intended without causing other problems for users, we'll add it. Right now, there's no way for ArtRage to differentiate between 'drawing input', 'palm resting on screen', and 'touch input', as that happens at the OS level.

Desktop programs and Windows OS work differently from mobile, touch based, apps and OS (the mobile Windows 8 environment was a very different system to the desktop Windows 8. These were merged in Windows 10, but it doesn't retroactively change the apps themselves). This would be a useful feature in ArtRage, and we'd like to add it - just as it would be useful in all drawing programs. Some people would like to add keyboard shortcuts to the mobile apps, but that isn't really possible either - different devices specialise in different features, and we have to figure out how to make things work to compensate.

You don't have to believe us, but the only thing that producing 'proof' that we're lying to you will change is the level of detail we explain, rather than summing up the essentials. And I'm not an actual programmer, so I can't explain which bit of code doesn't work or why, exactly, Photoshop can do it (given it appears to be the only one that matches your expectations, that would indicate that Photoshop is doing something different to everyone else, not that all other programs just aren't trying), but this is a question we get a lot, and as the person who has to answer 90% of the emails about it, I would love to be able to say 'yes, of course we support it, here's the secret incantation to make it work' or 'oh, it's definitely coming out soon'.

But the answer isn't 'we're secretly able to do it and sit around in our underground lair playing with perfect palm rejection and laughing evilly about this awesome feature we refuse to share with our users'.