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

[Chris McCormick]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 12:01:32PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:20 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:
> >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?

Not at all. If [hid] was working on Windows, and easy to compile on
Linux, I think I'd go with that.

> 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.

That sounds really cool. I look forward to a time when it's easy to
get joystick events into Pd in a cross-platform way. In the meantime
I might write a very simple SDL external to do just what I need, or
persue Frank's idea of wrapping [joystick] and [hid] depending on the
platform. I'd definately switch to what you guys are working on once
it's working on all platforms though.

Best,

Chris.

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