Maxime

It seems that the Hi objet doesn't work with mice and keyboards and my windows XP... Ben Nevil told me that this object doesn"t work on this OS. But e--j on the idecibel.com french forum told me (without any explanations) that the hi objet work on this computeur, even with a mac keyboard.

hi-and-windows

it apears that it was an oversight.. the hi object

doesnt work on windows.. i have to do with it...

sorry... 
i ve just receive an answer from e--j...
it apears that it was an oversight.. the hi object
doesnt work on windows.. i have to do with it...

It will work for joysticks on windows but for some sad reason does not work for the keyboard and mice...

What is [hi] supposed to do ? I've tested it for the record with a 

joystick, but i don't use it. I assume it's about handling Human 

Interface devices ?! It should not be so hard to write a working C 

object for win, using the win32 api... I've tested some bindings with it 

in Java or Python and it works great. A C one will be better, for sure, 

but my C knowledge (as my time) is still limited. If he finds time for, 

What is [hi] supposed to do ? I've tested it for the record with a 
joystick, but i don't use it. I assume it's about handling Human 
Interface devices ?! It should not be so hard to write a working C 
object for win, using the win32 api... I've tested some bindings with it 
in Java or Python and it works great. A C one will be better, for sure, 
but my C knowledge (as my time) is still limited. If he finds time for, 
i'm sure it's a job for jasch !

The Hi object works on Xp with a joystick but only 1 joystick. I wrote 

to C74 team several emails to ask for upgrade the hi object, so

that it could handle more than 1 joystick and the last reply from Ben 

If you are using the most up-to-date version of the hi object, then the 

Windows code and the Macintosh code are identical in how they handle 

duplicate names. What that means is that if only one device is showing 

up in Max on Windows, the operating system is only communicating the 

existence of a single device to the hi object. Sorry for the bad news. 

If you can find a piece of Windows software that will communicate with 

two of the same joysticks at the same time then I will investigate further.

Since Max is meant to handle real time processing, such a feature that 

step forward, to plug whatever weird USB device into Max...

AFAIK, every joystick show up in the windows setting panel but they have 

name though i guess they must have a unique "CLSID" or "UIID" or 

somewhere (but I don't know much about win32 programming style)

Can any windows guru help providing the needed piece of software mentionned

A fix has been made for the Mac version of hi, which can now handle

up to 1024 devices (though I tested only with 20 of them), while it

Also, for windows Hi users, note that the parameters codes are not the 

and the value are not always contigous: there might be a bit shift that 

For a multiplatform version of a patch, these changes can be handled by 

whereami message ";max getsystem WhateverName".

Scale/bitshift/reroute the values accoding to the "macintosh" or 

received by a "receive WaheteverName" object.

will the intel mac bring the Mac benefits or the Win problems?

mmm... OK, this may be [OT] for now... ;-)

Any help or advice is welcome on the windows Hi issue!!...

The Hi object works on Xp with a joystick but only 1 joystick. I wrote 
to C74 team several emails to ask for upgrade the hi object, so
that it could handle more than 1 joystick and the last reply from Ben 
Neville was:

""
If you are using the most up-to-date version of the hi object, then the 
Windows code and the Macintosh code are identical in how they handle 
duplicate names.  What that means is that if only one device is showing 
up in Max on Windows, the operating system is only communicating the 
existence of a single device to the hi object.  Sorry for the bad news.  
If you can find a piece of Windows software that will communicate with 
two of the same joysticks at the same time then I will investigate further.
""

Since Max is meant to handle real time processing, such a feature that 
would be great
step forward, to plug whatever weird USB device into Max...
(and there are so many of them!)

AFAIK, every joystick show up in the windows setting panel but they have 
the same
name though i guess they must have a unique "CLSID" or "UIID" or 
whatever "ID"
somewhere (but I don't know much about win32 programming style)

Can any windows guru help providing the needed piece of software mentionned
by Ben to the C74 team?

A fix has been made for the Mac version of hi, which can now handle
up to 1024 devices (though I tested only with 20 of them), while it
used to managed only 16 before.

Also, for windows Hi users, note that the parameters codes are not the 
same as Mac's
and the value are not always contigous: there might be a bit shift that 
make values
go 0 128 256 384 ... etc.
For a multiplatform version of a patch, these changes can be handled by 
sending the
whereami message ";max getsystem WhateverName".
Scale/bitshift/reroute the values accoding to the "macintosh" or 
"windows" answer
received by a "receive WaheteverName" object.

Another question left about this:
will the intel mac bring the Mac benefits or the Win problems?
mmm... OK, this may be [OT] for now... ;-)

a workaround is to use 3rd party joystick external, you'll surely be able to 

find it through excellent www.maxobjects.com

This worked for me, I had two different controllers, both genius, and hi 

couldn't see them both. But Hi+Joystick worked fine, if I remember 

ps. sorry for typos, for some reason, after reinstalling xp, I lost spell 

Hello,
a workaround is to use 3rd party joystick external, you'll surely be able to 
find it through excellent www.maxobjects.com
This worked for me, I had two different controllers, both genius, and hi 
couldn't see them both. But Hi+Joystick worked fine, if I remember 
correctly...

ps. sorry for typos, for some reason, after reinstalling xp, I lost spell 
checking option in e-mail. 


Hi and Windows