[PD] Usb lights

Marc Lavallée marc at hacklava.net
Sat Oct 29 04:14:07 CEST 2005


Le 28 Octobre 2005 22:20, IOhannes m zmölnig a écrit :
> Marc Lavallée wrote:
> > May I recommend my parapin external?
> > http://puredata.info/Members/odradek/parapin
>
> btw, i always wondered what's the difference between zexy's [lpt] object
> and your [parapin].
> do you have an idea? ([lpt] is able to write 2 bytes to the parallel
> port and read one byte from it; everything is based on messages; usually
> you use the hardware-addresses of the parallel-port(s) to address it; in
> the CVS version of zexy you can also use the /dev/parport device (linux
> only))

Parapin doesn't know about linux devices, and requires root access to run.
It is more flexible than the lpt object in terms of i/o configuration.
Please read the original parapin documentation:
http://parapin.sourceforge.net/doc/parapin.html
--
Marc




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