[chuck-users] Space Navigator

[mike clemow]

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 <spencer at ccrma.stanford.edu
> wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/21/2012 5:13 AM, Kassen wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:51:17PM -0500, Lester Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
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>> i'm more curious about the space navigator, i want to read more about it.
>>
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