[chuck-users] Joysticks anyone?

[Ge Wang]

HID support is definitely coming.  We will probably (ab)use the
SDL library.  Several of us (Spencer, Martin, and me) have been
brainstorming about this.  Hopefully we will see HID support
take form in the next few months, maybe sooner.

Best,
Ge!

On Feb 19, 2006, at 9:17 PM, Adam Tindale wrote:

> Sad news, my friend.
>
> It isn't there yet, but it is coming. I use the P5 virtual glove with 
> ChucK and everything is just peachy, but you have to grab the input 
> from another program. The open source way to do it is to use PD and 
> grab the HID object (I forget who wrote it, it isn't part of the 
> vanilla install). You can then send OSC from PD to ChucK. Not pretty 
> but it works.
>
> I have discussed with Ge about putting this functionality. We are 
> looking for good cross platform HID libraries. GLUT is no good because 
> you need window focus. Any suggestions? This feature was promised with 
> the famous screenshot... (sorry to bring that up again)
>
> Take care.
>
> --art
>
> On 19-Feb-06, at 5:50 PM, Jim Hinds wrote:
>
>> I was caught bragging to my peers (all of them) about how cool chuck 
>> is to do performance and real-time good stuff.  One asked me about 
>> joystick interfaces into chuck and I blanked out.  I didn't have an 
>> answer -- I should have.
>>
>> So, does anybody know how to read a joystick and get the info into 
>> (or through) chuck?  Even a Rube Goldberg approach might help me  
>> here, although extra credit is given for simplicity and elegance.
>>
>> If the answer only worked on the Mac OS X implementation, that would 
>> be just fine.
>>
>> Jim
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