On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 12:31, Lance Blisters wrote: > > yeah but how? > > i think you'd have to treat them as something other than normal > > mice for X, afaik it only allows one pointer at a time - > > i.e. multiple mice works fine but they all just control the same > > pointer. > > program against EVDEV, simple input event layer presents events > as byte triplets. > > modprobe -ra keydev mousedev; > modprobe -a evdev > cat /dev/input/event* > my_app > > this is how GDAM supports USB touchpads, joysticks, > keyboards, pen tablets, powermate big knob, etc. A USB mini > keyboard, 120+ temporary on buttons for $12, is by far the cheapest > control device. Treating it as a dedicated device with direct > app support (as opposed to normal keyboard operating hotkeys) > lets the controls stay the same regardless of window focus. > > But touchpads generally don't support pressure, so it doesn't > seem to offer anything for drum triggering other than "zero > travel time" vs. a keyboard. > > -geoff >
Zero travel time is pretty important.. keyboard drumming is horribly impractical, it just isn't accurate. But I was just kidding about the touch pad drum kit anyway. I have an Akai MPD-16 so it's a non-issue. You poor guys without any nifty hardware can deal with ghetto drum input solutions. :) -DR-
