On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 04:01 PM, George Birbilis wrote:
I was wondering what everyone is doing with respect to scriptable
control of turntables, specifically of the Kaidan heritage, on OSX?
The
old emCee and other Classic apps are out the door, and the only other
app I have found so far is VR Worx 2.1, though the scripting is either
buggy or deactivated in the demo and it's a bit overkill just for
getting a turntable to spin. Is there anything comparable to emCee (or
has emCee been updated?).
Some years ago I worked on an independent app for this, but I don't
have the rights to the code and it was for Mac OS 8.6 so I'd be
starting from scratch... I'm willing to do it again if there's
interest
- it wasn't a terribly difficult app - but it's a side project which
I'd like to avoid spending much time on.
It's some old QBasic (for DOS) demo of Kaidan, ported (by me) to Java
(using Sun's Java COMM api) and to Delphi, Visual Basic 6, J# (.net).
The last three using Microsoft's COMM ActiveX Control (MSCOMM32.OCX).
Feel free to use it (for the command protocol used in Kaidan
controllers can use SysInternal's free PortMon utility - see
http://www.sysinternals.com), or ask Kaidan to send you a document
they have with all the commands
Feel free to use this code. I was planning to make some Borland VCL
controls, ActiveX controls and JavaBeans out of this (and some other
related Java code of mine), but haven't found the time yet to do it,
maybe sometime in the future (especially if there's such demand
[please send me e-mails if you'd care to buy such controls - which of
the above I mention - for using in your application code or scripts])
If you plan on porting it to the Mac, search first in case Sun or
other third party have implemented Java COMM API for the MacOS or for
MacOS-X (or other UNIX). In that case you'll be able to use the Java
version of the code almost as is (maybe just change the port name or
something)
Thanks a bunch George, I will give this a look... my Java is a bit
rusty, and my immediate interest is in scripting within an OSX
environment, so Delphi, VB, and J# are out. It's only been a few years
since I touched their wire protocol - nothing too hard, I could write a
controller app in a few hours in REALbasic as I'm not familiar with
serial control in Obj-C yet. However, since this is a favor for another
group here, and my time is already limited, I was hoping (and assuming)
I'm not the only one who needs to automate object capture on Mac OSX!
If it comes to it, I'll write a new app, it's not the end of the world
and if I do I'll contribute it back to the folks here... but I'm
surprised there isn't (that I've found) an existing demo app even,
something like emCee.
Best,
Roger
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