[PD] phidget externals

2008-02-09 Thread melissa hunt
hello, i am a newbie. i'm just wondering if anyone has developed any user friendly phidget external. i have a phidget interfacekit 8/8/8 and would like to get it working with a pure data patch i've been working on and touch sensors thanks melissa

Re: [PD] Foreground / Background handling dynamically

2008-02-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, jean-martin barbut hat gesagt: // jean-martin barbut wrote: If anybody has an idea to solve this foreground/background problem or another idea to create those loop indicators and playback cursor... I already tried the idea to put [hsl] at array bottom or top but it is not very

Re: [PD] phidget externals

2008-02-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I believe that phidgets are USB HID devices, so it should be possible to use them with [hid]. .hc On Feb 9, 2008, at 7:37 AM, melissa hunt wrote: hello, i am a newbie. i'm just wondering if anyone has developed any user friendly phidget external. i have a phidget interfacekit 8/8/8

Re: [PD] overall horrible performance in OS X

2008-02-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I think the performance under load on Mac OS X isn't so bad. But it does use a lot of CPU on idle, for whatever reason. There are somethings that can be done to make things run better on Mac OS X. For example, on Mac OS X and Windows, Pd uses double- precision math functions while Pd only