Hans,
firstly, thanks a million for the hid device. it's something that is really appreciated.
...however, I am having some difficulties using it.
I just built a USB device which you can see here:
http://aug.ment.org/lechero
I was about to present it yesterday, but was having some major
problems with the [hid] object. I tested and built a patch with [hid] input on a desktop machine running gentoo, and it was working *perfectly*
- fast, stable and clean. I had it running all day and was editing a
running other patches at the same time. however, on my laptop running ubuntu, it was slow and cludgy, no matter how I set the polling. Whats also strange about this is that I changed the enumeration on my device so that 13 axis that I have show up properly in the registered abs_x, abs_y, etc. that you have in the 0.5 hid version. With the new enumeration, I can get [hid] to run and work perfectly on my desktop, however with the same code and with the same device, it crashes PD immediately when I turn the [hid] object on on my laptop. [a simple (if !=null) statement that I sent the other day will keep it from segfaulting, however. I just find it curious how it works on one machine but doesn't on another - I don't know much about USB]
so, for the presentation that was scheduled, I needed a working
solution on a laptop, ...and since everyone around me uses a mac, and since I thought you were developing [hid] for the mac, I decided to try it there. I downloaded your installer for PD with the hid object included, but to my surprise, the situation was even worse on the mac - the response from the [hid] object is _very_ slow and _very_ cludgy. I tried it on a coupla different macs, but got the same situ. In desperation I tried to set something up quick using supercollider on the mac, but the HIDdevice there was even worse.
I'd like to help debug if possible, but I don't really know where
to start.
thats my hid story so far.
-august.