[PD] WinXP: Using Mouse as Generic Input Device?

[Marc Lavallée]

Le 11 Octobre 2004 10:58, Ryan Supak a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I've got WinXP and I'm wondering if I can plug a second mouse in -- but not
> have it act as a system pointer device (e.g., as a thing that controls the
> cursor on the screen).
>
> Instead, I want to use it sinply to input raw control data into PD.  I'm
> imagining input floats such as "X Position", "Y Position", "Button1",
> "Button2", "Wheel Inc", "Wheel Dec".

Try with a serial mouse. Here's a simple description of the m$ mouse protocol, 
along with a C code snippet:
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/serialmouse/
Using this code, it should be easy to write a serial mouse decoding external, 
and use it with the comport external. Too bad I'm not working with PD these 
days, because I would code it right away.
--
Marc