[PD] mouse or keyboard in

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 11:12 America/New_York, zozizozu wrote:

> Thanks , but  i have to be under winXP for other software .
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>  You'd need to write some kind of mouse driver.
>
> Unfortunatly , i can't do that ( don't know how )
>
> If you had a mouse driver that took input from a network socket, then  
> you could use Pd to process everything and send the control data to  
> that network socket.
>
> Do you know where can i find such a driver ? , or where should i   
> search

I don't of anything that exists, that was just an idea.


>
> If you just wanted to control the mouse when using Pd, then you could  
> do everything in Pd.
>
> Great , that 'll be a good start for me , but i can not use any entry   
> from [gemmouse]  .

Try the [MouseState] object from cyclone.  You need to have Gem loaded  
to use the [gemmouse] object.  Both of these should be included in the  
Windows installer.


>
>
> On a side note, in order to use the polhemus in Pd, you could use  
> [linuxevent] as long as the Linux drivers provide an event system  
> interface (/dev/input/event2 for example).
>
> Do [linuxevent] could work under winXP   ? ...( sorry :)


Nope, only Linux.

.hc



>
> Thanks again
> 3o3
>
>
> .hc
>
> On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 04:21 America/New_York, zozizozu wrote:
>
> HI ,
>
> matthew jones wrote:
>
> did you mean is there some way of writing into the keyboard/mouse  
> buffer to
> SIMULATE inputs that could be used to control applications OTHER than  
> pd?
>
>
> That's it . I'm working with handicaped people and most of them can  
> not use their hand or clic to manipulate softwares .We have some  
> tracking devices ( midi ,polhemus , webcam ,.. ) that we want to use  
> to drive other software .
>
> as far as I know this is not possible so far (but I may be very wrong);
> simulating mouse input makes no sense though, as it is unclear what it  
> would
> do with any real mouse input.
>
>
> So , ...I ' m not a dev , and don't know pd so mutch , but do you  
> think it ' ll be complex to write such object ?
> My only other solution is to midi control out a device that i plug  
> onto a real mouse wheel ...°-( Heavy !
>
> if you just want to be able to use these inputs (mouse and keyboard) to
> control pd patches then that is straightforward and Hans has already  
> listed
> a few such objects.
>
> Matt
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