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= make second inlet for poll # (for [human->pd]


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= output device data on open

- Logical Min/Max i.e. [range -127 127(
- device string  [name Trackpad( 



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= open devices by name

i.e "Trackpad" a la Max's [hi]


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= test verbose names

- matju says symbols are compared by pointer, so they are fast

- try verbose names like:
  		syn = sync
		snd = sound
		msc = misc
		rep = repeat
		pwr = power

- maybe these too
		abs = absolute
		rel = relative
		btn = button

- maybe make the type the full name, with the code using the abbreviation

- change generic ev_9 to type_9

- change word "code" to "element"


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= hid/serial

- open/close status outlet

- [send ( to send data

- [tgl] 1/0 for open/close


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= linux input synch events (EV_SYN)

- these seem to be generated by the Linux kernel, so they probably don't fit
  in with the [hid] scheme.  Probably the best thing is to ditch them, or
  figure out whether they should be used in controlling the flow of event
  data, as they are intended.


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= open/close status outlet



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= profile [hid] object and usage

- find out if [autoscale] takes a lot of CPU power, or where in [hid] is using
  CPU where it doesn't have to be

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= Report available FF effects

- check against HID Utilities Source/PID.h


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= pollfn for mouse-like devices

- determine whether using a pollfn is actually better than using a t_clock

- any device that acts like a system mouse can be used with a pollfn, since
  the mouse data will go thru Pd's network port, triggering the pollfn.

- this is probably unnecessary since the t_clock seems to run well at 1ms delay

- at standard block size (64 samples), one block = ~1.5ms


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= function return values

- most functions probably do not need return values


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= event name changes

- make key/button Type "button" rather than "key" (undecided on this one)


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= check out using USB timestamp 

- use the USB timestamp to correctly space the output data


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- BUG: figure out how to prevent segfaults on mismapped devices/elements

- it should gracefully ignore things where it currently segfaults

- looks like its in build_device_list

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- BUG: multiple instances pointing to the same device don't have seperate close/free

- closing the device on one instance closing that same device on all other
  instances of [hid]

- deleting that instance also closes the device for all other instances
  pointing to that same device


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- BUG: getting events from the queue doesn't output a 0 value event when the
  motion stops, so when the mouse stops, the sound keeps playing.

This is probably only a problem on relative axes.

  This will probably have to be implemented on a platform-specific level:  

  - On Darwin/MacOSX, I think that the HIDGetEvent() loop will have to be
    followed by one call to HIDGetElementValue()


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- BUG: hatswitches on MacOS X output an event without a change in value

Because of the currnently implementation of the conversion of the MacOS X
style event to the Linux style event, an event with a value of zero is output
on the unchanged axis when the hatswitch is moved in along the X or Y axis (as
opposed to diagonally).


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- BUG: on MacOS X, two keyboard key codes are reported as hatswitches

  abs   abs_hat0x       Button Input, Keyboard Usage 0x39
  abs   abs_hat0y       Button Input, Keyboard Usage 0x39

I am pretty sure this is just a hid_print_element_list() display problem.