Joysticks, etc

[Michiel Spape]

Hi group,
I was wondering whether anyone in the group had some experience in using joysticks in E-Prime 2. Actually, I'm not really interested in joysticks as such, but mainly curious as to whether E-Prime can acquire midi data from the gameport (which used to be the common way to connect joysticks, but also Midi, and I wouldn't be surprised if the joystick communication even went explicitly by midi). You see, we tend to pay a ton of money for lab-equipment (cf http://www.empirisoft.com/directin.aspx) unless we either have our own technician (I think most don't, but agree with David's much stated sentiment, that it's probably more cost-effective than letting psychologists figure such things out!), or are willing to trust gaming-type of companies to build well-timed stuff, and hope that implementing such isn't too difficult.
Yet, if midi-implementation can easily be achieved in E-Prime, there's nothing holding us back from tapping into the immense wealth of midi hardware available to audio geeks (like myself). The benefits being:

-          Much cheaper, and probably better designed (more customers who test and would complain), than lab-equipment (like Empirisoft stuff - also more available on the common market, as compared to some, whom I contacted twice but completely failed to respond).

-          Proven to be well-timed (because musicians get a fit if something isn't accurately timed, of course)

-          Easy to implement

So we're indeed looking into whether something like http://www.hercules.com/us/DJ-Music/bdd/p/110/dj-control-mp3-e2/ could work in an experimental setup, because it basically has everything one could want: tons of buttons, knobs faders, rotating discs, &c (I understand if you just do keyboard presses, this is not really your thing); and I have it already working, simulated anyway, in a little .NET program (c# source available, for those interested).

The question, anyway: does anyone know if it is easy to access midi ports in E-Prime 2? (I have 1.2 here).
Cheers,
Mich

Michiel Spapé
Research Fellow
Perception & Action group
University of Nottingham
School of Psychology
www.cognitology.eu

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