Congratulations GToledo,

Marco

Any news on receiving raw input data from the Magic Trackpad in Windows?

I'm trying to write a little piece of software to make it work with absolute positioning, just like a pen tablet. This way, it could sufficiently replace my mouse, as I am continuously being bothered by some thumb RSI

Any input (no pun intended) is greatly appreciated!

Best,

Timo

That said, I think unrelated to what jittouch did, I remain interested in whether for cross-platform app development we can talk directly to the device. That appears to be how the magic mouse has already been used on Linux, via a kernel module that directly supports the chip. (That's *also* not a hack… far from it, then you support the hardware as long as the chip is in there, no Apple frameworks needed.)

1: An Interactive Graphics Engine cobbles together a poorly written library to try to replicate some kind of functionality that is in the Mac.

2: An Interactive Graphics Engine is modified, using techniques that Apple uses, to access frameworks that are used in the OS or in major Apple apps, that are unlikely to change until an actual new OS release.

Which one is more of a hack?

Using a private framework that's for something very app-specific and constantly updated, a blazing new tech that has very minimal use, or a framework that's for a Pro app may be really_bad_ideas, but for an API that's already grounded by tons of devices in the field, not so much. As was seen, there were no problems with the magic trackpad, and there was a giant collective yawn

Meanwhile, things like jittouch DIDN'T work.

Which is more of a hack?

That would be a super hack! If somebody comes up with it be sure to post back at kineme.net where I read all threads!

I'm thinking along the lines of an overlay with multiple sliders and on/off switches for a room lighting & a/v control device. For $69 that's a lot cheaper than a set of say 10 midi sliders/knobs/toggles and you can set it up just how you like. The overlay would presumably need the touchable sections cutout of a rigid plastic layout sheet or something.

Congrats on publication gtoledo!

@gabe: I'm able to turn off four finger Exposé activation in the Trackpad preference panel located in System Preferences. The Trackpad preference panel doesn't show up there until doing a Software Update and installing the trackpad software (after pairing the Magic Trackpad with the computer), however. If you've done all that and it's still not working … I haven't a clue what the issue is.

anyone know how to turn these off? for example, use four fingers and swipe down and it reveals all your document windows, and swipe up and it reveals the desktop. nice feature, until you want to use the multitouch patch or something along those lines.

Part of a toolbox for reusing off-the-shelf input devices featured in (another) NIME 2010 paper:
http://www.educ.dab.uts.edu.au/nime/PROCEEDINGS/p…

Alternative: Hans-Christopher Steiner's [multitouch] native Pd object (part of pd-extended).