[PD] mouse or keyboard in

zozizozu zozizozu at yahoo.fr
Tue Apr 20 17:12:49 CEST 2004


Thanks , but  i have to be under winXP for other software .

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>  You'd need to write some kind of mouse driver.

Unfortunatly , i can't do that ( don't know how )

> 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.

Do you know where can i find such a driver ? , or where should i  search

> If you just wanted to control the mouse when using Pd, then you could 
> do everything in Pd.

Great , that 'll be a good start for me , but i can not use any entry  
from [gemmouse]  .

>
> 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).

Do [linuxevent] could work under winXP   ? ...( sorry :)

Thanks again
3o3

>
> .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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