new HID WAS: [PD] Ergates game-like audiovisual instrument

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:20 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:

> Hey Frank,
>
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:05:29PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> I would recommend J. Sarlo's joystick-external. It works on all OSses
>> AFAIR.
>
> Since Hans pointed out it doesn't work under OSX, I think the next  
> best
> option is for me to write an external that uses SDL calls to read from
> the joystick, since that library works on all platforms. Will report
> back here when that's done.

When I started [hid], I explored many options including SDL.  It  
provides a very limited interface to the devices, but is relatively  
easy to use.  I suppose an SDL object would be useful in specific  
circumstances, like on obscure platforms.  Do you have a specific  
problem with [hid] besides not working on Windows?

You could also join Olaf Matthes, David Merrill, and I on working on  
the next generation of [hidin]/[hid]/[input_noticer] that will work  
on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.  By lucky chance, David was in NYC  
so we met yesterday about this.  And by another lucky chance, Olaf is  
getting into NYC and we are going to be meeting about this soon.

.hc

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