[PD] 'apple' lib for controlling hardware and getting sensor data

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Hey,

I just finished of a quick library of functions for controlling some  
of the hardware features on Apple computers when running under Mac OS  
X.  So far, I have been able to control the screen brightness;  
control the keyboard backlight brightness and fade time; get data  
from the "sudden motion sensor" or built-in accelerometer; and get  
data from the built-in light sensors.

It's included in the nightly builds as the 'apple' library, check  
5.reference -> apple in the Help Browser for help patches.

Also, this should be pretty easy to do for other computers.  For  
example, the Thinkpad features are pretty well documented under  
Windows and GNU/Linux:

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/tpaps.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knockage.html
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/sdl.html
http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/gtollina.c

Or for Apple hardware, there is pbbuttonsd:
http://pbbuttons.berlios.de/

.hc



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