[PD] how to capture window-related mouse-events when toxy is discontinued?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: katja <katjavetter at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 10:24 AM
> Subject: [PD] how to capture window-related mouse-events when toxy is discontinued?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> It happens to be the case that mouse-event capturing as done by
> [toxy/tot] is crucial to my Pd performance setups. The object gives xy
> positions relative to a window, not to the screen(s). These
> coordinates are used to move GUI's around on a large xy-field, like a
> multiple-control Kaoss Pad. Specially useful in combination with
> touchscreen. Here's one clip illustrating the concept:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/user/instantdecomposer#p/a/u/2/Qo1CwYxmplE
> 
> The toxy lib is discontinued in Pd-extended 0.43. Tried to find an
> alternative, asked on the Pd forum. No solution so far. I explored gem
> for GUI purposes, but this introduces even more dependencies.
> Data-structures seem an option at first sight, but can not provide
> large reactive area's (only the center pixel of an object is
> reactive).

Are you in edit mode in that video?  If so, data structures will react accordingly.

In run mode there is a way to make the entire polygon reactive (instead of just a 
little 5x5 pixel "hot spot"), but it's hacky.

-Jonathan

> Good old [MouseState] doesn't know where the window is. In
> a brief moment of optimism, I even considered taking up maintaince of
> toxy, but the code is total hocus pocus to me.
> 
> In the meantime, one of those live-perfo tools, Slice//Jockey, has
> started to spread around the world and is being used by some
> performers and composers. As you may understand, I am particularly
> concerned to provide a 0.43-compatible version as soon as possible.
> Any help to find a window-related mouse-capturing method, working in
> 0.42 and 0.43 alike, is very much appreciated.
> 
> Katja
> 
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