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JamesHicks
Powermate?
Nov 10th, 2006, 1:51pm  
Not sure where to post this now the physical forum is gone.
So I'm considering buying a powermate, how would I go about talking to processing with it?

Thanks in advance
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jkriss
Re: Powermate?
Reply #1 - Nov 10th, 2006, 9:33pm  
You can set up the Powermate to send key events, with custom repeat rates.  After that, just use the regular keyboard input events.

http://jklabs.net/misc/powermate.png
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nick
Re: Powermate?
Reply #2 - Nov 10th, 2006, 10:49pm  
there is also the proxi app that you can get from the griffin site that enables you to do more than the control panel enables you to do (inculding recognise multiple powermates and assign different behaviours to them)
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JamesHicks
Re: Powermate?
Reply #3 - Nov 13th, 2006, 12:10pm  
So no controlling the light on the powermate from Processing?
Thats kinda the main reason I wanted one
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flight404
Re: Powermate?
Reply #4 - Nov 13th, 2006, 7:52pm  
It is possible, but it is a mess to figure out.

http://www.flight404.com/griffin/griffin8x8_above.mov
http://www.flight404.com/griffin/griffin8x8_bug.mov

For this, a friend wrote a c++ -> Java wrapper that allowed me to talk to the powermates, but this was 2 years ago.  Since then, Tiger was released and now that code no longer does what it is supposed to and just throws back endless errors.

Possible, yes.  But lots and lots of hoops stand in the way.
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JamesHicks
Re: Powermate?
Reply #5 - Nov 14th, 2006, 11:33am  
Cheers Flight404, think I will pick some up and have a go worst comes to worst can still use it without the feedback.
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