[chuck-users] Fwd: odd hid issue (touchpad)

[Kassen]

Sorry, I accidentally send this to just Hans, it should of course have gone
to the list.


Hi, Hans!

The general interface just provides a list of (device_type, button_number,
> button_range, button_intended_use) or something (don't remember details).
> Chuck implements some of those choices, hardcoded with respect to
> (device_type, button_intended_use).
>

Indeed, ChucK takes the most common and universal ones. It's not perfect but
as a simplified interface it's quite pleasant to work with and mostly gets
most of the job done.


>> [chuck](VM): sporking incoming shred: 1 (mouse.ck)...
>> mouse 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' ready
>>
>
> So this means that the touchpad has been registered as type mouse.
>

Yes, indeed. Frankly I think that so far it's a clear cut case. I feel it's
a mouse, my windows manager (Gnome) agrees it's a mouse and ChucK accepts it
as one yet there is no data coming in or being printed from mouse.ck. You do
have a valid point about the difference in scanning between a regular mouse
and a pad but at least the buttons should be buttons in any case yet I'm not
seeing buttonpresses. This is why I suspect something is wrong.


I do believe touchpads also output the change in position.
>>
>
> They may or may not, I think - they HIDs can pretty much choose what
> varibles they want to provide. There was another thread withy this track-pad
> problem.
>

Yeah.... but this is not some exotic specialised device. I would think it's
quite clear that a touchpad on a laptop will be used as a mouse.



>
> If you have a Mac with gcc on it, you might try the program I hacked up. It
> lists all the variables for all attached HIDs.
>

No, sorry, I do have some Linux computers with GCC on them.

Yours,
Kas.
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