Communication with USB HID devices?

[Phil Davis]

Noble effort! Too bad success isn't measured solely by effort...

Turns out I have a new contact at OSU Open Source Lab <http://osuosl.org/>
who has already been using the very device I'm working with. I'm told he's
developing a cross-platform wrapper (API) for the HID driver on each
platform. I'll see what I can gain through him and tell the list if there's
any good news.

Thanks again for the help -
Phil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Dar Scott
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 3:51 PM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Communication with USB HID devices?
>
>
>
> On Jul 9, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>
> > I haven't succeeded in opening or even copying "/dev/cu.modem" (my
> > only 'cu'
> > file) yet - it hangs things up when I try. (I tried copying it to
> > Desktop
> > via Terminal and via Rev 'shell' command. I also tried Rev 'put url'
> > into
> > fld, but it hung.)
>
> This should open the modem:
>
>     open driver "/dev/cu.modem" for binary update
>
> The driver seems to insert a 3 second delay for me in the open.
>
> > I ran the script and it returned empty.
>
> If your device has a serial view in addition to the HID view, then you
> should see it in either driverNames() or deviceNames().  I have seen
> some problems with serial if you can get a serial driver set up for the
> device, but there is a chance you can avoid them.  (By serial, I mean
> something that looks like an RS-232 driver, I don't mean the USB
> itself.)
>
> I just tried deviceNames() on Panther.  It returns the built-in modem
> entry 3 times.  Weird.  (I'll check it out.)  The Revolution
> driverNames() does not return anything for the built-in modem.
>
> > Other thoughts?
>
> There's nothing in the control panel or someplace to make the device
> look like a mouse?
>
> I'm running out of ideas.  If it was me, I'd be thinking of making an
> external.
>
> Dar Scott
>
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