[PD] HID: Am I doing this right?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Plus [hid] gets the data directly from the device, so you can treat  
multiple keyboards as different sets of buttons.  [key] et al treat  
all keyboards as the same entity.

.hc

On Mar 20, 2008, at 3:49 PM, marius schebella wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Peace may sound simple—one beautiful word— but it requires  
>>>> everything we
>>>> have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
>>>> —Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), musician
>>>>
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