Ah, well that's life - i primarily bought it for Second Life anyway. Thanks for the insights though, I appreciate the (quick) responses! Les On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Kassen wrote:

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:51:17PM -0500, Lester Hall wrote:

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Hi folks,

I bought a Space Navigator and would like to interface it to ChucK. I tried writing a joystick program but got the message: "[MMMM 1.ck]: HidIn: couldn't open joystick 0...

Hey Les!

Based on this I'd guess that the Space Navigator doesn't register itself as a joystick. ChucK can't open raw HID devices and needs to be told whether target devices is a joystick, mouse or keyboard. If it is none of those you are out of luck :-/. There might be a tool to make it emulate one of those?

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On 5/21/2012 5:13 AM, Kassen wrote:

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:51:17PM -0500, Lester Hall wrote:

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Hi folks,

I bought a Space Navigator and would like to interface it to ChucK. I tried writing a joystick program but got the message: "[MMMM 1.ck]: HidIn: couldn't open joystick 0... Hey Les!

Based on this I'd guess that the Space Navigator doesn't register itself as a joystick. ChucK can't open raw HID devices and needs to be told whether target devices is a joystick, mouse or keyboard. If it is none of those you are out of luck :-/. There might be a tool to make it emulate one of those?

Yours, Kas. _______________________________________________ chuck-users mailing list chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users i'm more curious about the space navigator, i want to read more about it.

Hi All, FWIW, I've gotten a lot of mileage in the past out of creating small Pd apps that does the weird HID input stuff. Then sending OSC to Chuck. -Mike http://michaelclemow.com http://semiotech.org On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Spencer Salazar

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The Space Navigator is indeed a full-fledged USB HID, but ChucK only naturally talks to HIDs that identify themselves as a joystick, mouse, or keyboard, which the Space Navigator does not. A generalized HID API would be cool for sure, and this isn't the first time the idea has come up. We do feel that the combination of (joystick | mouse | keyboard) has enough device coverage/cross-platform support/ease of use to be a good baseline.

We actively develop semi-experimental support for new HIDs, so perhaps ChucK may be able to natively interface with the Space Navigator and other 3D mice in the future.

spencer

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Alan Yoder (portable email) < tempjayren@gmail.com> wrote:

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On 5/21/2012 5:13 AM, Kassen wrote:

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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:51:17PM -0500, Lester Hall wrote:

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Hi folks,

I bought a Space Navigator and would like to interface it to ChucK. I tried writing a joystick program but got the message: "[MMMM 1.ck]: HidIn: couldn't open joystick 0...

Hey Les!

Based on this I'd guess that the Space Navigator doesn't register itself as a joystick. ChucK can't open raw HID devices and needs to be told whether target devices is a joystick, mouse or keyboard. If it is none of those you are out of luck :-/. There might be a tool to make it emulate one of those?

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i'm more curious about the space navigator, i want to read more about it.

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