piet

After several days of tutorial training, I'm starting a little projet:

for the moment,I'd desire to make max "listen" to what's plugged in the usb ports of the mac... 

So I would need to have a little clue to do that.

is there any object capable of telling me what's connected to a specific port?

sorry for this noob question, and thanks for any helpful answer.

Hello.
I'm a new user of max and jitter,
After several days of tutorial training, I'm starting a little projet:
for the moment,I'd desire to make max "listen" to what's plugged in the usb ports of the mac...  
So I would need to have a little clue to do that.
is there any object capable of telling me what's connected to a specific port?
sorry for this noob question, and thanks for any helpful answer.


usb-key-content

piet wrote on Wed, 25 February 2009 18:00

I'd desire to make max "listen" to what's plugged in the usb ports of the mac...

If you want to examine the contens of your usb-stick and you are

on a mac you may also take a look at the [shell] or the [aka.shell] objects (you will find them under maxobjects.com) so you can use standard unix commands like "diskutil list"

piet wrote on Wed, 25 February 2009 18:00I'd desire to make max "listen" to what's plugged in the usb ports of the mac...  

If you want to examine the contens of your usb-stick and you are
on a mac you may also take a look at the [shell] or the [aka.shell] objects (you will find them under maxobjects.com) so you can use standard unix commands like "diskutil list" 

thanks for your help,
I'm trying with shell object.


still learning basic Unix commands, I got my usb drive content thanks to the " cd /Volumes/KEY " command in the terminal..

but when I try to paste this command in the aka.shell example,

HI,
still learning basic Unix commands, I got my usb drive content thanks to the " cd /Volumes/KEY " command in the terminal..
but when I try to paste this command in the aka.shell example,
max window returns aka.shell:no result..
any idea of the problem?
thank you


try (as given in the example) cd /Volumes/KEY;ls

you can also use ls /Volumes/KEY directly...

piet wrote on Mon, 02 March 2009 12:37HI,
still learning basic Unix commands, I got my usb drive content thanks to the " cd /Volumes/KEY " command in the terminal..
but when I try to paste this command in the aka.shell example,
max window returns aka.shell:no result..
any idea of the problem?
thank you

try (as given in the example) cd /Volumes/KEY;ls 

each of my directory path should end with a ""? 

does aka.shell equaly understand unix commands and apple script?

ok, thanks.
each of my directory path should end with a ""? 
does aka.shell equaly understand unix commands and apple script?


No, you need the backslash in order to include the semicolon in a message. Semicolon (and some other characters) have special meanings to the Max parser. The backslash tells the Max parser "do not treat the following character as a special token but include it literally in the message".

so now that i'm able to do what I desired with the drive content, I'm looking for a way to know when any new usb drive is plugged.

Indeed, for my project, different usb drive will be plugged and unplugged successively

how could i list the content of a new usb key considering I don't know its name?

Is there a way in unix to call data from a usb fixed port? 

I mean getting data according to a special path and not according to usb drive names (that I can't predict)?

so now that i'm able to do what I desired with the drive content, I'm looking for a way to know when any new usb drive is plugged.
Indeed, for my project, different usb drive will be plugged and unplugged successively
how could i list the content of a new usb key considering I don't know its name?
Is there a way in unix to call data from a usb fixed port? 
I mean getting data according to a special path and not according to usb drive names (that I can't predict)?
thanks again for your help..


this maybe a start (assuming that your internal hard disk name is MacHD):

piet wrote on Tue, 03 March 2009 01:13so now that i'm able to do what I desired with the drive content, I'm looking for a way to know when any new usb drive is plugged.
Indeed, for my project, different usb drive will be plugged and unplugged successively
how could i list the content of a new usb key considering I don't know its name?
Is there a way in unix to call data from a usb fixed port? 
I mean getting data according to a special path and not according to usb drive names (that I can't predict)?
thanks again for your help..

usb key content