Thanks for all the help, everyone.  It appears our problems with hid stem from trying to install it on a recent Mac OS (High Sierra).

In the meantime, I will look at joyosc and HIDIO as an alternative solution.

-Greg Dixon

On Jan 24, 2019, at 2:23 AM, Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com> wrote:

An alternate solution, which I've use for a decade now, is *not* to do this in Pd, but to simply forward gamepad/joystick events over OSC:

 
Greetings,

My students are working on projects where they want to use game controllers with Pd.

We can currently get the hid object to run in Pd-extended on Mac OS High Sierra, but I would like to encourage my students to use a newer version of Pd.

Is hid available through a current library or is there an equivalent external that can provide the same functionality?

Apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere.  Thanks for your help!

-Greg Dixon
 
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Dan Wilcox