[PD] serial port and Pd

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:52 AM, John Harrison wrote:

> I'd love to be able to read in Serial (and for that matter Parallel)
> port values from Pd. From scanning the archives, it seems like comport  
> is
> the method of choice. I am on WinXP and do not have an easy way to
> compile comport to get a DLL, but I am only finding source online. Does
> anybody have a comport.dll they would be willing to share?

[comport] is included in the Pd-extended installer:

http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html

> Also, I see references to HID objects and I am wondering what external
> has them, if I could use those objects to read the serial and parallel
> ports, and if there are precompiled versions for Win32 out there.

[hid] for Windows is in progress.  I was hoping to have it done in  
December, but I have been thwarted by the Windows HID API.  Windows  
locks the mouse and keyboard so Pd cannot get the data.  I've been  
trying to find a good solution to get around that, it looks like the  
only way is to make a separate DirectInput object.

.hc

>
> Thanks,
>
> -John
>
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