[PD] wacom usb tablet as controller ?

[pix]

what about using the xinput interface? this is the way x programs normally
deal with having extra input devices that different programs interpret in
different ways.

pix.

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 16:12:48 +0200
Christian Klippel <ck at mamalala.de> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 15:20 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > .hc
> 
> if you read the event device, you can make a general purpose object.
> just read the event, and give it to either seperate outlets 
> (type,code,value1,value2) or as list on a single outlet. there is an 
> timestamp in the event message also, if needed, that could be given an 
> outlet.....
> 
> that way it can be used with any event device, mice, tablets, joysticks,
> 
> pens... its then just up to the patch to decode the needed events. one
> can make simple patches for a ready-to-use mouse decoder based on that,
> for example.
> 
> greets,
> 
> chris
> 
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