trent.gill

been trying to integrate the various mouse objects in max into some patches of mine, but i have been unable to access the multi-touch information from my laptops mousepad.

after searching the forums and maxobjects, i found no trace or reference to using the two-finger input on an apple laptop.

if anyone knows of an external or some hidden functionality of the mouse object i'm missing it would be a great help.

multitouch-mousepad-on-mac

> been trying to integrate the various mouse objects in max into some 

> patches of mine, but i have been unable to access the multi-touch 

> after searching the forums and maxobjects, i found no trace or 

> reference to using the two-finger input on an apple laptop.

> if anyone knows of an external or some hidden functionality of the 

> mouse object i'm missing it would be a great help.

Do you want actual multi-touch info, or just the scroll events? I 

don't believe the multi-touch info makes it out of the hardware. I 

can get scroll events from the 'hi' object by looking at event #6 

when focussing on "Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad 2" on my 

powerbook. I only get events when scrolling in the vertical 

direction. Not sure how to get horizontal scrolling, I don't think 

On 07-08-07, at 2149, trent.gill wrote:
>
> hi folks,
>
> been trying to integrate the various mouse objects in max into some  
> patches of mine, but i have been unable to access the multi-touch  
> information from my laptops mousepad.
>
> after searching the forums and maxobjects, i found no trace or  
> reference to using the two-finger input on an apple laptop.
>
> if anyone knows of an external or some hidden functionality of the  
> mouse object i'm missing it would be a great help.
>
Do you want actual multi-touch info, or just the scroll events? I  
don't believe the multi-touch info makes it out of the hardware. I  
can get scroll events from the 'hi' object by looking at event #6  
when focussing on "Apple Internal Keyboard/Trackpad 2" on my  
powerbook. I only get events when scrolling in the vertical  
direction. Not sure how to get horizontal scrolling, I don't think  
that is part of the HID spec.

I'm not after the actual multitouch information, but yes, just the scroll events. What I was hoping for was both horizontal and vertical though. Perhaps there is an external somewhere enabling this?

Thanks so much for the quick response.
I'm not after the actual multitouch information, but yes, just the scroll events. What I was hoping for was both horizontal and vertical though. Perhaps there is an external somewhere enabling this?
thanks again
Trent


> I'm not after the actual multitouch information, but yes, just the 

> scroll events. What I was hoping for was both horizontal and 

> vertical though. Perhaps there is an external somewhere enabling this?

Grab the HID Explorer sample code from Apple, and see if you can find 

a horizontal scroll element. I only found a Generic Desktop Wheel 

element that is triggered by vertical motion. They may be pulling 

horizontal events at a lower level and injecting them directly into 

scroll views, as I don't recall seeing a parameter for scroll 

direction (x/y) in any of the HID code I've looked at. Its been a 

while though, so I could be mistaken about that.

On 07-08-10, at 0556, trent.gill wrote:
>
> Thanks so much for the quick response.
> I'm not after the actual multitouch information, but yes, just the  
> scroll events. What I was hoping for was both horizontal and  
> vertical though. Perhaps there is an external somewhere enabling this?
>
Grab the HID Explorer sample code from Apple, and see if you can find  
a horizontal scroll element. I only found a Generic Desktop Wheel  
element that is triggered by vertical motion. They may be pulling  
horizontal events at a lower level and injecting them directly into  
scroll views, as I don't recall seeing a parameter for scroll  
direction (x/y) in any of the HID code I've looked at. Its been a  
while though, so I could be mistaken about that.

Old thread but even more relevant nowadays since there are so many more apple multitouch trackpadded laptops out there. has anyone found any info on this stuff? can't seem to get anything from [hi] except a two finger vertical scroll. apple os and apps deal with 4 finger gestures.

I remember hearing about someone creating a multitouch object or framework for max. Don't know if its relevant here as i think he was using the stantum screen, but gonna look into this now.

Old thread but even more relevant nowadays since there are so many more apple multitouch trackpadded laptops out there. has anyone found any info on this stuff? can't seem to get anything from [hi] except a two finger vertical scroll. apple os and apps deal with 4 finger gestures. 

I remember hearing about someone creating a multitouch object or framework for max. Don't know if its relevant here as i think he was using the stantum screen, but gonna look into this now.


http://www.anyma.ch/2009/research/multitouch-external-for-maxmsp/

http://www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=max#mw

Super thanks! Thats exactly what I was looking for...

whoa!!!!!! this is great, thanks for the tip.

multitouch mousepad on mac