[PD] pduino test patch: "old analog/digital controls"

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 13, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:57 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Jun 13, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Ingo wrote:
>>
>>>> With the latest version, the only way I've found that actually  
>>>> works
>>>> to enable analog input pins are the so-called "old" messages
>>>> analogIns <npin> <1/0>
>>> /listinfo/pd-list
>>>
>>> I was mentioning that before. I had the same problem.
>>>
>>> There is another problem with the digital ins 1 and 2. I got  
>>> myself a
>>> workaround. Unfortunately I don't remember anymore what it was
>>> exactly. It
>>> happened when you went from pin 1 or 2 to another one and back. The
>>> first
>>> value came out as a "0" instead of the correct version. I think it
>>> had to do
>>> with the fact that pins 1-8 should form a 8-bit number but 1+2 are
>>> part of
>>> another 8-bit number or something like that.
>>>
>>> It happens somewhere in the part of the "mapping".
>>>
>>> Ingo
>>
>> I'm totally swamped these days, getting ready for a baby that's  
>> coming
>> soon.  Please submit bug reports, patches, help file updates, and  
>> I'll
>> get to it when I can.
>
> @Ingo and Matteo
>
> I'm also quite interested in having the [arduino] working properly. I
> didn't find any bugs recently, though. However, if you provide a
> step-by-step guide about how to reproduce a problem, I (and probably
> Olsen also) might be able to help, as I know the code inside a bit,
> although I'm not the author (as long as the problem exists on the Pd
> side and not on the Firmata side).
> Regarding the help and test files, we just improve what needs
> improvement. I hear that this is OK with Hans.

Definitely, please improve!

>
> @Hans
>
> I wish you guys good luck and a happy baby!


Thanks!

hc



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