[PD-dev] who wants to port [wacom] for windows (and unix) ?

Fri May 15 17:19:30 CEST 2009

You could try hidio, which is in SVN in externals/io/hidio.  I  
specifically worked on these kind of issues there.  It should be  
useable.  I plan on making a proper release of it this summer.

.hc

On May 15, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Rich E wrote:

>
> I tried these for a couple hours, quite a long time ago.. trying to  
> compare the output string with the one I expected for my device. I  
> couldn't get anything near as consistent (or even working) as well  
> as just making [linuxevent /dev/wacom] and sending it a poll  
> message.  I'll try again soon and tell you what happens.
>
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
> Check the help patch, there are some subpatches on the top  
> illustrating alternate methods of specifying the device.  vendorid/ 
> productid is quite useful
>
> , but I forgot if that is implemtned in GNU/Linux.  There are other  
> ways too.
>
> .hc
>
> On May 13, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Rich E wrote:
>
>>
>>> Can you think of a way to route this information back to [hid]?   
>>> The main reason I use [linuxevent] instead of [hid] is because I  
>>> don't have to click anything in order to initialize the wacom.. it  
>>> is automatically looking at the correct /dev/*
>
>>>
>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at 
>> > wrote:
>>
>> You can use the [print( message and look for the wacom in the Pd  
>> window.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 12, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Rich E wrote:
>>
>>> I use [linuxevent /dev/wacom] in linux... plus an abstraction.   
>>> Works fine and provides everything I need.  [hid] does work, but  
>>> you have to know exactly what /dev/* file to tell it to look at  
>>> (it won't take the /dev/wacom symlink).
>>>
>>> Windows should be the only one that needs the official wacom driver.
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at 
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> You can just use the linux input API to get the wacom data, [hid]  
>>> works with wacoms in GNU/Linux, at least last time I tried.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 11, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
>>>
>>> Isn't there actually a reverse engineered Wacom driver for Linux?
>>> Couldn't this be used instead of having to ask permission from  
>>> Wacom?
>>>
>>> http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> I too think it would be great to have cross-platform wacom support,
>>> but I think it would be even better if there was a "libwacom" C API
>>> for all operating systems for which the Pd "wacom" object was a  
>>> simple
>>> wrapper.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM, João Pais  
>>> <jmmmpais at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello Pd developers and programmers,
>>>
>>> we - me and Johannes Kreidler for now - wanted to ask if anyone  
>>> would be
>>> interested in programming a version of Thomas Grill's [wacom] for  
>>> windows
>>> (and unix, if possible). This external is used to take data from  
>>> wacom
>>> tablets - so in case anyone else is interested in this please say  
>>> something.
>>>
>>> The features/work would include:
>>>
>>> - be compatible with general wacom architecture - and specially  
>>> with the
>>> Intuos3 (which is the tablet we own)
>>> - take all parameters from the tablet connected
>>>  - not forgetting tilt+inclination, touch strips and keys (these  
>>> aren't
>>> covered by [wintablet])
>>> - put the compiled binaries in a svn folder packaged with Pd  
>>> Extended (see
>>> below)
>>> - be willing to do some maintenance now and then, specially until  
>>> things
>>> get stable (after that, I guess the work would be kind of finished)
>>>
>>> According to T Grill, the developer(s) that work on this must  
>>> register
>>> with Wacom as developer(s), so that they have access to the wacon  
>>> API.
>>> Also, the source code cannot be given away, so they must sign a
>>> non-disclosure contract (from what Thomas said, not as complicated  
>>> as it
>>> sounds). I couldn't find exact information about this, but at
>>> http://www.wacomeng.com/devsupport/index.html might be something  
>>> more
>>> clear.
>>>
>>> It would be perfect if someone would be interested in porting the  
>>> code
>>> just because. In case that doesn't happen, we - me, Johannes  
>>> Kreidler and
>>> whoever wants to join in - would be interested in giving a small  
>>> payment
>>> for the work. We're poor people (just like you), so we can't  
>>> really pay
>>> what a professional programmer should get for the work. In that  
>>> case, just
>>> get in discussion with us, and we'll see what can be done.
>>>
>>> Again, if this interests someone else - either as developper or
>>> contributor - please forward this mail away.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> João Pais
>>>
>>> --
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