I'm trying to get the [hid] external working with the Griffin PowerMate on Linux Mint 14 (Nadia)/pd 0.43.4
the help patch doesn't consistently recognize the device (it did once)
and when I click on the hradio button the patch and pd crashes hard
anyone working with the [hid] external on Linux with success? or is it buggy for others as well?
thanks in advance
kc
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[hid]
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I find it working pretty well, running two joysticks on it so far.
What you want to do is send a |print( message to the |hid| itself and read the console:
for lines like:"Device 12:'Logitech...' " --
except yours would say 'Device [?]:'Griffin Powermate' [something] " and that number [?] is
the one you'd need to send to the hradio widget on the help patch.Instead of an hradio widget I've got:
[bang]
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[12] ---- (number2 box set to init to number 12, for my gadget)
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[pd hidstuff] --- (a subpatch where I've put the ugly stuff):|inlet|
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|bang| |open $1(
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|toggle| |
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|hid|
The message opens the device at the number you've provided
and the toggle keeps the |hid| object receiving its readings.
My experience of opening the wrong number device, so far -- is that this is probably harmless unless you use the mouse to open the mouse, which then crashes everything [?]
