[PD] hid compatibility

David Powers cyborgk at gmail.com
Sun Feb 11 00:07:41 CET 2007


I had the idea to use such a tablet on Windows, but it seems
impossible, because the WinXP wants to treat the device like a mouse.
Obviously, we just want position data from it in Pure Data, but we
want the OS to ignore the data and use the regular mouse.

Am I missing something? Is this possible on Win?

Alternately, I do have an old PIII laptop with Debian installed, and
it seems that PD-extended is running on there fine. Would I have
better luck using the tablet this way in Linux? I still don't really
understand how Linux works or deals with devices though, so I'd be a
total newbie at trying to get this running.

~David

On 2/10/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> There is a test version of [hidio] working on Windows, including
> output support.  We are working on making a release.
>
> But Wacoms will only be supported by [hidio] on GNU/Linux because on
> Windows and Mac OS X, you have to install the Wacom drivers, which do
> not use the HID API, but instead their own custom API.
>
> .hc
>
> On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:48 AM, João Miguel Pais wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been away for a while, and just wanted to ask something:
> >
> > - has anyone tried anything with the following hardware + pd?
> > http://www.wacom-shop.net/cgi-bin/wacom.storefront/DE/product/PTZ-630G
> >
> > - I was thinking about abusing that with [hid]. is it alredy
> > working with windows (xp)?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joao
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