16 Nov
2008
16 Nov
'08
11:31 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
Justin Smith wrote:
I had one pd patch, each mouse controlling 2 parameters (x/y) per
button combo (ie. left button controls one parameter pair, right
button another, left and right together yet another, middle plus right
a completely different pair, etc.). It was interesting, but way too
hard to visualize remember and keep track of that many interfaces at
once, I have upgraded to a behringer bcf2000 with the automated faders
- less interesting maybe, but much more usable.
I may eventually get the code into a semi usable state for public
distribution, it sent osc messages (and I think I even started on some
keyboard parsing code).
AFAIK here is no need to fool X, or modify your kernel. Tell X
precisely which device to use for keyboard input (the devices are in
the /dev/input/ directory, I recommend using the symlinks in
/dev/input/by-id/), and it will happily ignore all other keyboards.
After that, you just need to read the hid device created by the kernel
for that keyboard - if PD already has this coded, all the easier, but
the interface is very easy to use (I did something very similar, with
8 mice connected to the computer, all but 1 ignored by X11 -- it was a
weekend hack, more or less, to make it work).
That's really interesting. Did you have multiple mice controlling different
programs?
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.