Dear list,
I am trying to bring my knowledge of hid-related objects up to date for all three OSes.
On Linux I can install [hid] 0.7 via Deken and use it as a normal user as a member of the 'input' users group.
On Linux I can install [hidraw] 0.1.0 via Deken. The external loads without errors, but I am not getting any response clicking the "listdevices" message.
On OS X there is [hid] 0.7.3 thanks to Albert. Colleagues have tried to find [hid] for their newer apple cpu's without success unless they start Pd under the Rosetta emulation and install Albert's amd64-32 package. Interestingly there exists a hid Deken package for Darwin-arm64-32 http://deken.puredata.info/library/hid/0.1.0 but it is not displayed in Pd's built-in search engine on OS X as far as I can remember (maybe someone can check this?).
On Windows there is only [hidraw], correct?
General question: What would be a reason to prefer [hidraw] over [hid]? How do I parse the output of [hidraw]?
Thank you for any replies! best, Peter