BUG: Cursor/tools break if pen leaves drawing tablet mid-task

[UdderNonsense]

Have you searched for existing issues (including closed ones)?

• Yes, I have searched the existing issues.

Does this bug persist in a new vault with only Excalidraw installed?

• Yes, I have verified the issue persists.

Your environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.7.4
Installer version: v1.6.7
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Describe the bug

What I am doing

Using a Wacom Intuos S (plugged in with a USB-A to USB-C, Fem to Male), I have the smaller button on the pen set to middle-click, and I use this to pan over the Excalidraw window. I use the trackpad to pinch/scroll to zoom.

What is happening

The pen can middle-click and pan over the window while hovering over the tablet, which is normal. If the pen leaves this range above the tablet, while panning/middle-clicking, the tools can break in a couple of ways. The different ways appear to depend on what happens immediately after the bug occurs, but I have not tracked this specific cause-and-effect.

After the pen loses connection with the tablet:

1. All of Excalidraw's tools break or bug out. I can not draw, highlight, select, or erase, but I can select each tool still.
2. The cursor can end up doing a handful of things. Here is a couple:
   a. Simultaneously zoom the view in and out (dragging up or down), while panning
   b. Do nothing: right click behaviour doesn't change, but no tools work, no panning.
3. This can only be resolved by fully reloading the plugin somehow. I do this by restarting Obsidian with "reload the app..." through the command palette. Disabling and enabling the plugin is the most direct fix I have found.

This does not seem to be an issue in the webapp.

Steps to reproduce

1. Enable a Wacom Intuos S tablet (or a similarly functioning drawing tablet)
2. Open a new Excalidraw drawing in Obsidian via the plugin
3. Ensure the pen behaves normally
4. Using the pen to middle click, pan across the Excalidraw drawing
5. While panning and holding middle click, remove the pen from the tablet
6. Attempt to draw again.

Expected behavior

I expect the pen/app/plugin to continue to work after the pen leaves the tablet, no matter what.

It does NOT break on the regular Excalidraw website, and in every other drawing program I have used, including Xournal++ and Krita.

Hence why I am blaming this Obsidian Plugin.

Additional context

The Wacom model itself is a bit old, and while it does work consistently, I don't know if it has the latest firmware. It is the non-bluetooth version.

I suspect it may be an issue with the mobile-app/touchscreen compatibility in the plugin, but I am not at all sure of that.

Pen-mode always turns on, though I don't need it with this drawing tablet specifically.

This has persisted across multiple versions.

[UdderNonsense]

Hence why I am blaming this Obsidian Plugin.

I mean "blame" in a very literal, impersonal way.

I love using the app, and it was easy to train myself to just not leave the tablet while panning. If it does break, I made a hotkey for reloading the app.

I'm reporting because it is persisting, and I thought I should mention it.

[zsviczian]

I've also noticed this recently not just with a pen, but with a mouse. I ran into this multiple times with ExcaliBrain opening in a popout window.

[zsviczian]

does this happen if you have double-tap eraser and single finger panning turned off?

[zsviczian]

Please save this script in your Excalidraw/Scripts folder.
I recommend assigning a hotkey to this. I assigned shift+cmd+d but of course any hotkey will do
Open the Developer console: CMD+OPT+i
Switch to console view
Press CMD+OPT+i to store an initial state
Reproduce the error
Press CMD+OPT+i
Copy the object to clipboard and share the results here.

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