[PD] wacom usb tablet as controller ?

[Rory Walsh]

Unless I am mistaken there is a 'tablet' object 
distributed with GEM? I do not have GEM on my machine
now so i cannot say for certain, but I am pretty sure
I can remember playing around with it once?

Rory.

 --- Christian Klippel <ck at mamalala.de> wrote: > hi
andre,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 13:17 schrieb Andre
> Schmidt:
> > hi,
> >
> > as i got a wacom usb tablet lying around, i was
> wondering if it would be
> > possible to use it as a controller for PD ?
> >
> > so,
> >
> > [...snip...]
> >
> > thnx at advance
> > -andre
> 
> on linux that is very easy. basically, you just need
> to read out the usb event 
> device. that is for example /dev/usb/event0 (but
> thats on my machine)
> 
> the event interface is really simple, it gives out
> the raw events of a usb hid 
> device, like "pen move absolute 100", of course all
> as numbers, not ascii.
> its just a packet of int's for each event-message.
> 
> you may take a look at the usb object i started for
> jmax, as this just reads 
> that event device.
> 
> of course you need to have a kernel with usb, hid
> and event support (or have 
> them as modules)
> 
> greets,
> 
> chris
> 
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