You'd need to write some kind of mouse driver.

If you had a mouse driver that took input from a network socket, then you could use Pd to process everything and send the control data to that network socket.

If you just wanted to control the mouse when using Pd, then you could do everything in Pd.

On a side note, in order to use the polhemus in Pd, you could use [linuxevent] as long as the Linux drivers provide an event system interface (/dev/input/event2 for example).

.hc

On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 04:21 America/New_York, zozizozu wrote:

HI ,

matthew jones wrote:

did you mean is there some way of writing into the keyboard/mouse buffer to
SIMULATE inputs that could be used to control applications OTHER than pd?

That's it . I'm working with handicaped people and most of them can not use their hand or clic to manipulate softwares .We have some tracking devices ( midi ,polhemus , webcam ,.. ) that we want to use to drive other software .

as far as I know this is not possible so far (but I may be very wrong);
simulating mouse input makes no sense though, as it is unclear what it would
do with any real mouse input.

So , ...I ' m not a dev , and don't know pd so mutch , but do you think it ' ll be complex to write such object ?
My only other solution is to midi control out a device that i plug onto a real mouse wheel ...°-( Heavy !

if you just want to be able to use these inputs (mouse and keyboard) to
control pd patches then that is straightforward and Hans has already listed
a few such objects.

Matt

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
http://www.loopit.org/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-


_______________________________________________
PD-list mailing list
PD-list@iem.at
http://iem.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list

_______________________________________________
PD-list mailing list
PD-list@iem.at
http://iem.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pd-list

____________________________________________________________________________

There is no way to peace, peace is the way.
-A.J. Muste