track pad > XY controller?

windspirit's icon

is there a way to get a trackpad to report straight XY coordinates (instead of just moving the mouse) for kaosspad type controls?

I'm running an IBM XP thinkpad

thanks

Rodrigo's icon

I believe the "hi" object can do what your looking for.

On Nov 21, 2007 5:55 PM, eli wrote:

>
> is there a way to get a trackpad to report straight XY coordinates
> (instead of just moving the mouse) for kaosspad type controls?
>
> I'm running an IBM XP thinkpad
>
> thanks
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Dg's icon

Try "fingamidi".

windspirit's icon

hi wont generate a menu when I send it the menu command, and when I send it the trackpad (or the keyboard command) it says that they are not valid device names. I'm checking out fingamidi right now

Stefan Tiedje's icon

Derrick Giscloux schrieb:
> Try "fingamidi".

Doesn't work on OS X higher than 10.3 and certainly doesn't work on
Windows...
hi doesn't work for mouse like inputs on windows either as far as I
know. But he could use the normal mousestate. Its a matter of UI design
if that would work or not...

(He did tell what machine he's on...)

Stefan

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windspirit's icon

I saw a VST called tackpad 22 midi or something like that that might work.

is there a max object for human interface in windows? Even an external? I'm getting a tablet and I'd kind of like more than 128 values from the tablet 2 midi plugin.