[PD] wacom usb tablet as controller ?

[Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu]

Hi Christian.

I know that but if I share the tablet with X11 and a control widget and
I start to move the pen and click here and there I could end up
launching Mozilla or reconfiguring kernel and ALSA drivers :) No?

Also I think that you cannot open a device twice and use it in absolute
mode and relative mode at the same time. This is something that I
sometimes wanted to do (I mean *switching* between absolute and relative
mode).

Unless there is something that I'm missing...

Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:59, Christian Klippel wrote:
> 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
> 
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