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This question is fairly general and related to graphics tablets in general, not just to Affinity software. I bought a Huion pen tablet and I can configure it with shortcut buttons for common tasks. The particular tablet is the H1060P, and it also has some soft keys as well as the programmable hard keys.

I have seen videos of similar tablets, for example by Wacom, and how to configure the tablets to work with Wacom and software packages. What I really need to know is whether typically artists/designers configure the tablets for just one program, or whether it's possible or easy to configure them to work with different applications and to switch between them, and whether many (any) people actually do that.

For example, someone might want to develop text in Microsoft Word, then do some photo editing in Affinity Photo, and then using copy and paste etc. work on a larger document in Affinity Publisher - using a pen tablet with configured shortcuts to hopefully simplify the process in each application.

I think I can write a program to allow me to change the configuration to match different software applications, but this might not be necessary. I have so far linked the tablet to a couple of Affinity programs - Photo and Designer, but I might need to figure out a set of keyboard shortcuts which are compatible with different pieces of software. Otherwise I'll have to work on a switch solution - probably importing/exporting the tablet configuration file to match each application, with different shortcuts for Photo and Designer. I also have Publisher, so I might want to configure shortcuts for that too - and of course the shortcuts would have to be compatible with my OS.

I'm using MacOS and have now largely figured out how to use the tablet as a mouse, and also to do very specific operations within each application.

Also, as I'm not a designer, or graphic artist, are there any other forums where I could ask questions about this kind of issue - including whether it's worth having a tablet with a scroll wheel, or using a trackball?

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