Hello list,
Not sure if the title explains it concisely enough, but I'm looking to get mouse data without the screen limits of X. So basically when I drag the mouse to the far-right boundary of the screen and continue dragging, though my pointer stays the same on the screen, obviously there is still data being sent from the optical mouse to the comp that states I am moving right. How can I get this data? I'm mounting an optical mouse upside down under a wheel and I want to read that data. I thought MouseState from cyclone libs would give me this with the "delta" x and y, but those are confined to Xorg's limits as well. Any ideas? I don't feel confident in hacking mouse drivers without guidance....
Thanks, Tyler
Hi Tyler, I used my search plugin to search for objects tagged with the "user_input" keyword and found:
cyclone/MouseState report mouse x/y/deltax/y and buttonpress Keywords: control max_compatible user_input
Since it gives you delta x/y I think it will solve your problem.
-Jonathan
From: Tyler Leavitt thecryoflove@gmail.com To: pd-list pd-list@iem.at Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:19 PM Subject: [PD] Mouse data without Xorg boundaries
Hello list,
Not sure if the title explains it concisely enough, but I'm looking to get mouse data without the screen limits of X. So basically when I drag the mouse to the far-right boundary of the screen and continue dragging, though my pointer stays the same on the screen, obviously there is still data being sent from the optical mouse to the comp that states I am moving right. How can I get this data? I'm mounting an optical mouse upside down under a wheel and I want to read that data. I thought MouseState from cyclone libs would give me this with the "delta" x and y, but those are confined to Xorg's limits as well. Any ideas? I don't feel confident in hacking mouse drivers without guidance....
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Jonathan,
Heh... well I did mention in my post that I tried that already and it didn't do what I wanted it to. But then I tried it again at your urging and voila! For some reason I missed that my first try.
Thanks, Tyler
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.comwrote:
Hi Tyler, I used my search plugin to search for objects tagged with the "user_input" keyword and found:
cyclone/MouseState report mouse x/y/deltax/y and buttonpress Keywords: control max_compatible user_input
Since it gives you delta x/y I think it will solve your problem.
-Jonathan
*From:* Tyler Leavitt thecryoflove@gmail.com *To:* pd-list pd-list@iem.at *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:19 PM *Subject:* [PD] Mouse data without Xorg boundaries
Hello list,
Not sure if the title explains it concisely enough, but I'm looking to get mouse data without the screen limits of X. So basically when I drag the mouse to the far-right boundary of the screen and continue dragging, though my pointer stays the same on the screen, obviously there is still data being sent from the optical mouse to the comp that states I am moving right. How can I get this data? I'm mounting an optical mouse upside down under a wheel and I want to read that data. I thought MouseState from cyclone libs would give me this with the "delta" x and y, but those are confined to Xorg's limits as well. Any ideas? I don't feel confident in hacking mouse drivers without guidance....
Thanks, Tyler
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Yeah, I left out that I also opened the help patch, and the deltas were still being output when the mouse pointer
hit the edge of the screen in x.
-Jonathan
From: Tyler Leavitt thecryoflove@gmail.com To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: pd-list pd-list@iem.at Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Mouse data without Xorg boundaries
Jonathan,
Heh... well I did mention in my post that I tried that already and it didn't do what I wanted it to. But then I tried it again at your urging and voila! For some reason I missed that my first try.
Thanks, Tyler
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Tyler,
I used my search plugin to search for objects tagged with the "user_input" keyword and found:
cyclone/MouseState report mouse x/y/deltax/y and buttonpress Keywords: control max_compatible user_input
Since it gives you delta x/y I think it will solve your problem.
-Jonathan
From: Tyler Leavitt thecryoflove@gmail.com To: pd-list pd-list@iem.at Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:19 PM Subject: [PD] Mouse data without Xorg boundaries
Hello list,
Not sure if the title explains it concisely enough, but I'm looking to get mouse data without the screen limits of X. So basically when I drag the mouse to the far-right boundary of the screen and continue dragging, though my pointer stays the same on the screen, obviously there is still data being sent from the optical mouse to the comp that states I am moving right. How can I get this data? I'm mounting an optical mouse upside down under a wheel and I want to read that data. I thought MouseState from cyclone libs would give me this with the "delta" x and y, but those are confined to Xorg's limits as well. Any ideas? I don't feel confident in hacking mouse drivers without guidance....
Thanks, Tyler _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
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