[PD] xinput external

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2013-12-19 07:53, puredata at 11h11.com wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i am using a modified version of xinput (adding ";", leading 0 and
>  unbuffered) with pdsend (udp). i can now get my tablet 
> x,y,pressure,tilt in pd. a demo patch is included (showing a way
> to parse xinput test data).
> 
> https://github.com/patricksebastien/xinputpdsend
> 
> the only problem is that i am using [shell] to execute the xinput |
> pdsend and when quitting pd it hangs until killall xinput.

you might consider using UDP instead of TCP for sending data back to Pd.
UDP seems to be much more stable (esp. when it comes to broken
connections), and if you are only using localhost, the network
reliability should be a non-issue.

as for adding ";" and leading "0"; you might want to use `sed`.

fgamsdr
IOhannes

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