Hi Christian.
I know that but if I share the tablet with X11 and a control widget and I start to move the pen and click here and there I could end up launching Mozilla or reconfiguring kernel and ALSA drivers :) No?
Also I think that you cannot open a device twice and use it in absolute mode and relative mode at the same time. This is something that I sometimes wanted to do (I mean *switching* between absolute and relative mode).
Unless there is something that I'm missing...
Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.
On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 15:59, Christian Klippel wrote:
hi maurizio,
Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2003 15:21 schrieb Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu:
[...snip...] In my understanding this is the better solution except when you want to use the same device to control both the DSP and the rest of the GUI.
the event interface can be opened multiple times with the same device, for example with serveral event objects opening the same device file. or, of course, x11 opening the event device (or the usb mouse device, or whatever) and a object opens it a second time later. i already tried that on my laptop with the jmax object i made, using a usb mouse for x and the object, as well as an additional mac keyboard and a usb tablet. you can have x accessing the usual usb-mouse or usb-keyboard device, while there is still the event device file for that, which can be accessed independantly.
this would also allow to put event reading objects everywhere you want and need, plus you can easily decode any part of the event without selecting any special type (like starting a patch with any button press, regardless if it is from a joystick or a keyboard or mouse ....).
maybe its possible to quickly use the jmax object source with flext to get it into pd ? its not really complete (like having one object opening multiple devices, or allowing to write to them ...), but i think its a usable starting point .....
greets,
chris
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