Sigh. That explains the lack of response, I suppose?
On 10/12/06, Luke Iannini (pd) lukexipd@gmail.com wrote:
After tireless beta testing by my in house team (which involved a thorough check, by me, to ensure that numbers did indeed come out of the outlets), I'm ready to release Crikey 1.0. The name being a tribute to our late great friend Steve, Crikey is hopefully a solution to Pd's lack of MaxMSPish virtual keyboards.
It also allows mouse-clicked key-doodling (though this is just a hack of slider rather than any HID magic). Because of said hack, there seems to be an issue with the black keys not registering clicks. Anyone know what's going on here? (the clicks seem to go right through to the white keys below; the black keys work fine when isolated)
To be implemented:
- Keyboard-to-virtual-keyboard map saving - currently the keyboard
must be programmed manually each time. I just ran out of energy here, and I'm also unsure if HID will output the same "KEY_##" messages on each platform. Hans can answer that I assume?
- An expandable keyboard based on the configurable GOPing stuff that's
been recently posted. This will probably take a while.
- I'm also going to merge the Velocity and Duration sliders following
Frank's example (switching based on mouse or keyboard input), which will make room for the octave selector up top. Again, ran out of energy.
But it should be quite usable now in spite of those things.
So, as I said, hopefully my kludges can be pointed out and improvements can be made!
As a sidenote, I assume you've all seen this video by now: http://www.studioimaginaire.com/nat/maxtoolbox/box2.mov (via http://nat.imeem.com/blogs/areO4MEW)
As you'll see browsing through Crikey, this would have been terribly, terribly helpful in obviating the tedium of object-connection! :) I know DesireData has vastly improved keyboard navigation/wire-connectin', but not quite everything that MaxToolbox does. Matheiu, is the rest of it somewhat easily doable for DesireData (such as one to many connections, left-to-right mapping, etc.)?
Ok, I'm leaving now! To much brain activated by all that patching, sorry : ).
(oh yes, you'll need pd>39, zexy and of course hid)