Ah I get it. So the processing of the webcam, midi, polhemus would be
relatively easy in Pd, the tough part would be taking that data and
making it control the mouse pointer. 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
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