[PD] mouse or keyboard in

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Ah I get it.  So the processing of the webcam, midi, polhemus would be  
relatively easy in Pd, the tough part would be taking that data and  
making it control the mouse pointer.  You'd need to write some kind of  
mouse driver.  If you had a mouse driver that took input from a network  
socket, then you could use Pd to process everything and send the  
control data to that network socket.  If you just wanted to control the  
mouse when using Pd, then you could do everything in Pd.

On a side note, in order to use the polhemus in Pd, you could use  
[linuxevent] as long as the Linux drivers provide an event system  
interface (/dev/input/event2 for example).

.hc

On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 04:21 America/New_York, zozizozu wrote:

> HI ,
>
> matthew jones wrote:
>
>> did you mean is there some way of writing into the keyboard/mouse  
>> buffer to
>> SIMULATE inputs that could be used to control applications OTHER than  
>> pd?
>>
> That's it . I'm working with handicaped people and most of them can  
> not use their  hand or clic to manipulate softwares  .We  have some  
> tracking devices ( midi ,polhemus , webcam ,.. ) that we want to use  
> to drive other software .
>
>> as far as I know this is not possible so far (but I may be very  
>> wrong);
>> simulating mouse input makes no sense though, as it is unclear what  
>> it would
>> do with any real mouse input.
>>
> So , ...I ' m not a dev , and don't know pd so mutch , but do you  
> think it ' ll be complex to write such object ?
> My only other solution is to midi control out a device that i plug  
> onto a real mouse wheel  ...°-(  Heavy !
>
>> if you just want to be able to use these inputs (mouse and keyboard)  
>> to
>> control pd patches then that is straightforward and Hans has already  
>> listed
>> a few such objects.
>>
>> Matt
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