[PD] gemmouse/OSX (multiple pointers)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Well, with a proper [hid] object and a proper HID implementation, you  
can connect to as many mice as you can plug in.  Microsoft did a very  
stupid thing with their HID implementation: the OS locks all mice and  
keyboards for exclusive use, so this won't work on Windows.

But on GNU/Linux and Mac OS X, you can use as many mice, keyboards,  
joysticks, etc. as you want right now.

As for CPNmouse, if it has a decent API, it would not be hard to write  
an Pd object for it.

.hc

On Feb 3, 2006, at 1:15 AM, Julian Sorrel wrote:

> Speaking of [cursor], has anyone written an object that takes  
> advantage of the CPNmouse windows driver (  
> http://cpnmouse.sourceforge.net/ ) that enables multiple cursors? 
>
>  tacitdynamite
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>> I know very little about [gemmouse], so I couldn't tell you. And I
>> haven't written [systempointer] yet, feel free to beat me to it. These
>> days I am thinking [cursor] is a better name...
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:29 AM, som e imagem wrote:
>>
>> > Hello Hans,
>> >
>> > I was wondering if there is a way (or a Gem version) where  
>> "Gemmouse"
>> > object
>> > works properly on OS X (pd-0.39-2)?
>> >
>> > I looked at the PD-List archive and found your message bellow.
>> > Anything new?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> > Carlos Caires
>> >
>> > On Sat 30, 2005 Hans-C Steiner wrote:
>> > I plan on writing a [systempointer] object which would just return  
>> the
>> > coords of the system pointer at all times, as well as button press
>> > coords. It would be a general Pd object that would do what you want,
>> > but alas, its still on the todo list.
>> >
>> > Feel free to beat me to it ;)
>> >
>> > .hc
>> >
>>
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