[PD-dev] Re: new external, please add me to the CVS dev

[Tim Blechmann]

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 17:53 -0400, David Merrill wrote:
> My external can scan for given input devices in linux and spit out
> the 
> device file descriptor (i.e. /dev/input/event5) so that a particular 
> device can be automatically connected to a patch when it's plugged
> in, 
> or when the patch is started - rather than having to hard-code the 
> descriptor - so it allows for a kind of "plug-and-play" for input 
> devices. I've been using it with hans-christoph's linuxjoystick in
> order 
> to avoid hard-coding the file descriptor, meaning that patch can
> always 
> start up and be "live" regardless of what order devices were plugged
> in, 
> etc. 

well, i'm curious how you solved that ... some time ago i wrote a python
script parsing the udevinfo output ....
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pure-data/abstractions/tb/find_hid.py?view=markup

might make sense to combine the efforts ...

tim

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