[ANSWERED] mouse emulation with isadora?

deflost

hello all,

can give us anyone a direction to find a reliable way to emulate mouse coordinates from isadora. so we have to draw in a draw app on a seperate system (pc). so we prefer osc but also midi would be possible.

thx.

r.h.

p.s.

we think about to do it with a arduino pro and a found patch that exactly do what we need, BUT,

we are very very bad in coding and so we want do it with izzy only.

so maybe there is a way with simulating a mouse with a usb loopback or someting like this......, thx

deflost

.....not to be misunderstood, the app on the other computer is not able to receive midi or osc data.

so we have to find a way to control the mouse on the other system by data which is received in izzy as osc or midi and give this thru to the mouse of remote computer. this should be possible for a small dedicated part of the screen, about 300 to 300 pixel.

we also testet to trigger macros with mouse recording on the remote system, but this way is very unstable or to diffucult for us.

thx.

r.h.

DusX

@deflost

The only thing I can think of is some type of script running on the remote machine that receives OSC and converts it to control the mouse. I would probably use Python. I am not aware of any ready built remote control tools that take OSC as input unfortunately.

liminal_andy

If you are willing to get your hands dirty, I bet you could find a way to have Isadora trigger an AutoHotKey script to move the mouse with input parameters. I remember seeing some preliminary OSC and MIDI bridges to AHK, but maybe Isadora could negotiate the "where" and the CLI could pass into AHK to actually make the move

Kathmandale

Although it might seem scary to go down the 'coding' route, I wouldn't be too afraid of using Arduino until you try it. It would be a very neat solution to your problem and might be a good introduction to coding.

I'm not a coder but I use it from time to time and muddle my way through. One of the first things I did with an Arduino was use it to emulate a keyboard. I wanted Isadora to control another program that had no kind of interfacing (midi/OSC/serial/etc) but had a good range of keyboard shortcuts to control it's features. Setting an Arduino to listen to OSC from Issy and then 'press' a certain key was fairly straight forward; I didn't need to really write any code, just stitch together other bits I found on the internet.

If you've already found an Arduino sketch that does what you want then I'd suggest starting there. If you have any problems then I'm sure if you post the code on here people would be happy to help.

DillTheKraut

@deflost

To be honest, I don't realy get what you try to achieve, and your informations about is a little vague I think.
But maybe this is something that could help you?

MouseTrap

deflost

thank you all for information.

bome midi translator pro does the job.

it is very very easy with this tool.

thx.

r.h.

deflost

@dillthekraut

thx, but mousetrap is not reachable for us in the web, it seems to be gone in a new software, but we do not find a info where to get it for download.

it would be very cool to test it, because it is osc, this would be faster and more easy for us.

because we use osc for nearly everything, and have to use midi now only for the mouse emulation.

thx.

r.h.

DillTheKraut

@deflost

I just found this:

'status: defunct (as of 15-Mar-21)'

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/gro...

I'm sorry, I neighter have any copy.

Maybe try to contact the producer?

deflost

@dillthekraut

thx.

r.h.

AlexisMori

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