I have also been having HID problems lately on OSX Tiger w/ the latest test build of extended. It crashes when trying to open higher device numbers.
Also, only the analog d-pad for my game pad works, but not the buttons. The game pad works with snes9x for gaming, so it must be HID. It used to work on earlier builds, so it may be something with the latest version.
~Kyle
On 4/6/07, Clifford Dunn beatleboy07@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Derek,
Doing this did help me open the help file. However, a new can of worms has opened from this.
I can't seem to find much helpful information about the [hid] object in the helpfile. In fact, the only time the [hid] object appears in this patch it doesn't have any inlets or outlets. Maybe it's not necessary. I would like to know what these in/outlets are for this object though.
Also, the [hid] object does seem to be directly responsible for my crashes. It's rather irregular, but if I click on the object enough, PD will definitely crash. I've tried to create an [hid] object without a physical device ( i.e. [hid 5]), but the crashing will still happen.
Are there people regularly using HID with OS X?
Thanks again,
Clifford Dunn www.myspace.com/clifforddunn
On 06/04/07, Derek Holzer derek@umatic.nl wrote:
Hi Clifford,
I've seen this problem on OS X a lot in my workshops. [hid] works fine, but something in the help file crashes it. Has to do with one of the messages in the help patch causing [hid] to try to open one of the built-in Mac HID devices (trackpad, keyboard, etc), which it doesn't like.
Here's a quick fix: open the [hid] help patch in TextEdit or some other text editor, and change the creation argument to something above the number of built in Mac HID devices. [hid 5] should work, for example. Remember to save as extension .pd! Then you should be able to open the help patch and get more information.
best, d.
Clifford Dunn wrote:
Hello list. I'm relatively new to PD and I'm trying to see how HID works in it. I'm using the most recent version of PD-Extended, the preference files are fine, and I'm running OS X 10.4.8 on a PPC Powerbook.
I can't seem to get [hid] to work. I can create the [hid] object and it seems to be ok...there's a slight pause in the system as it seems like it needs to load something. When I try to open the help file to figure out how to use it, PD crashes.
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