[PD] Fwd: hid and pure data

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey,

Let's keep this on the Pd list since there other people can also  
answer these questions, and others might be interested in the thread,  
too

On May 26, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Kasper Jordaens wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Ive been trying your HID object all evening, and I was delighted to
> get some output finally. but mostly I just get:
>
> error: inlet: expected '' but got 'list'

Sounds like the [prepend] wasn't loaded, if you are talking about the  
help patch.  You can delete it, its just for show.

> namely when I try to use my mouse or the analog controls of my joypad.
> Is there anyway I can use the analog controls (I'd really like to use
> those) in my patches? or isn't unified HID intended for that? Analog
> would be great because I would be able to set sliders from -128 to
> +128 horizontal and vertical!

Look at the help patch, analog values come out at the bottom left.   
They output data from 0 to 1, scale it to whatever range you want.

> I'm on gentooPPC on a 12" powerbook, I compiled pd and HID from the
> latest sources available, I also tried your binary file.
>
> whenever I push "print" in one of  the patches that come with HID,  
> pd segfaults.

Sorry, known bug, I am working on it now.

.hc

> anyway I'd think this one was missing for PD and thank you for  
> making it.
>
>
> Sincerely Kasper
>


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