[PD] raw mouse data

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I thought about using a serial mouse but I think that they have quite low
resolution and refresh rate (like 40 Hz).  I think the best PS/2 mice can
go up to 200 Hz, but the OS limits that (Win98=45Hz).  40 Hz = 25 ms
latency.  This is slower than I want for real-time control.

Windows, for example, reads USB mice at 135 Hz by default, but
internally they refresh at 1500-6000 Hz, depending on the mouse.  
I'd love to get access to the raw data from a USB mouse in PD.  I might 
just have to write the code myself.

.hc


On 25 Mar 2003, Marc Lavallée wrote:

> I did, using a generic serial mouse with the m$ protocol. It was
> implemented as a patch, not an object, and designed to work with a
> trackball. 
> 
> There's a serialmouse object in the ggee externals:
> ftp://xdv.org/pub/gige/ggext/
> Here's a good technical reference on mouse protocols:
> http://www.hut.fi/~then/mytexts/mouse.html
> 
> Le mar 25/03/2003 à 00:04, Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> > I want to use the mouse as a controller but I don't want it limited by the
> > screen size. So basically I want to be able to use the raw data straight
> > from the mouse.  
> > 
> > Anyone done this?  
> > 
> > .hc
> > 
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