[PD] wacom usb tablet as controller ?

[Christian Klippel]

hi maurizio,

Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2003 15:21 schrieb Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu:
> [...snip...]
> In my understanding this is the better solution except when you want to
> use the same device to control both the DSP and the rest of the GUI.
>

the event interface can be opened multiple times with the same device, for 
example with serveral event objects opening the same device file. or, of 
course, x11 opening the event device (or the usb mouse device, or whatever) 
and a object opens it a second time later. i already tried that on my laptop 
with the jmax object i made, using a usb mouse for x and the object, as well 
as an additional mac keyboard and a usb tablet. you can have x accessing the 
usual usb-mouse or usb-keyboard device, while there is still the event device 
file for that, which can be accessed independantly.

this would also allow to put event reading objects everywhere you want and 
need, plus you can easily decode any part of the event without selecting any 
special type (like starting a patch with any button press, regardless if it 
is from a joystick or a keyboard or mouse ....).

maybe its possible to quickly use the jmax object source with flext to get it 
into pd ? its not really complete (like having one object opening multiple 
devices, or allowing to write to them ...), but i think its a usable starting 
point .....

greets,

chris