Martin Peach wrote:
Piotr Majdak wrote:
Hi Martin,
Martin Peach wrote:
I suppose a [comport~] object could use a signal inlet for some kind of trigger to send a message that was set up on another inlet...any suggestions?
A stupid question: why don't you use the printer port? You can control 8 digitial inputs/outputs there...
Well for one, most laptops don't have parallel ports. Two, accessing the parallel port is problematic on recent versions of Windows. For some reason Microsoft thinks parallel ports are dangerous potential hazards and only those who can afford drivers should be allowed to access them. I don't know if a free-in-every-sense driver exists that could be incorporated into a pd external without issues, and I don't feel like writing one, it just seems like way too much work for nothing. Three, the parallel port will have the same timing problems as the serial port from pd: messages are handled between audio blocks so sub-millisecond timing is not really feasible.
...but possibly a [parapin~] for linux only could be implemented that had much better timing. I'll look into it. Martin