[PD] HID: Am I doing this right?

[marius schebella]

hid, key, keyup, keyname are not compatible on the three OS. hid for 
example does not work on win afaik. otoh key on osx will stop working 
when you have a gemwin in the focus (which seems to be no problem on 
windows).
marius.

Andrew Turley wrote:
> I don't know exactly what you're trying to do, but it might just be
> easier to use [key], [keyup] and [keyname].
> 
> But if you do want to use [hid], once you have the device open you
> have to send a [1( to start polling. You might want to just hook a
> [print] object to the output to see what kind of info is coming out,
> and then [route] the messages accordingly.
> 
> andy
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:22 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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>>  > have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
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>>  >
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