[PD] wacom usb tablet as controller ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Tuesday, Apr 8, 2003, at 07:26 America/New_York, Christian Klippel 
wrote:

> hi andre,
>
> Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 13:17 schrieb Andre Schmidt:
>> 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 ?
>>
>> [...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)
>

I am currently working on a Pd_linux object called [rawmouse] which 
reads info direct from the Linux event interface.  Once its done, it 
should be trivial to make a [rawtablet] object.   But its not done 
yet...

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