[PD] serial port and Pd

[John Harrison]

 From what I can see, the Pd-extended installer you sent is BETA and the 
stable release does not include comport. I am looking at installing 
these in a computer lab for classroom use. Would you recommend I use the 
BETA release or that I use the stable release and try to copy 
comport.dll into that? I am more concerned about stability than 
cutting-edge features. My experience in working with students of mixed 
technical abilities that without good stability they quickly get 
frustrated and give up. I'm game to use the BETA releases but I am 
concerned by your disclaimers on the page.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

-John
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> 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
>>
>> --  John Harrison
>> Associate Professor of Violin
>> Director: CRATEL
>>  (Center for Research in Arts, Technology, Education and Learning)
>> Wichita State University
>> Wichita, KS 67260-0053
>> USA
>>
>> http://JohnHarrisonViolin.com
>> http://www.wichita.edu/CRATEL
>>
>> tel: (316) 978-6572
>> fax: (316) 978-3625
>>
>>
>>
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