[PD] HID: Am I doing this right?

[Mike McGonagle]

Thanks, Marius.... it works now for me... guess I was thinking that the
subpatch [keyboard] was specifically related to using the keyboard...
Mike


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:22 PM, marius schebella <
marius.schebella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> you can use only [hid] and send
> [open 0(
> message before you poll then a
> [1(
> message to start polling. device 0 is the keyboard on osx (at least I
> think this is always the case, not sure, you can use "print" to get a
> list of devices.)
> then go with route and select, bla bla.
> there seems to be a printout bug,  because I get a mass of printout to
> the console. "output this:..." although I don't want this.
> marius.
>
>
> Mike McGonagle wrote:
> > Hans (or anyone),
> >
> > After reading several comments on the Alternate Controller thread, I
> > figured that I would try to use the [hid] stuff... but, as the stuff in
> > the Extended (most recent nightly build) is kind of broken. While the
> > [hid] object is, itself, in the 'extra' directory, everything else is in
> > a subfolder called 'hid'. So, in trying to use the [keyboard] help
> > patch, it comes up with [keyboard] as not being found, so I rename that
> > object to [hid/keyboard], and it creates the object.
> >
> > So, it would appear that I can create an object in my patches, but I
> > can't seem to quite figure out how to get stuff out of the [keyboard]
> > abstraction. I opened the help patch (and after renaming the object), I
> > start it polling, and don't seem to get anything.
> >
> > I am running a Mac OS X PPC 10.4.11 system, if that is important...
> >
> > I would like to try to set up a keyboard layout that allows me to use
> > specific keys to select a particular parameter to control, and then be
> > able to change that value either by moving the mouse, or by using
> > (possibly) the arrow (up/down) to change the value.
> >
> >
> > Mike
> >
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> >
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