Keyboard input in MWorks

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Hey Dave,

Does MWorks currently support using a keyboard as an input device (specifically, recognizing and responding to particular key presses)? I’m trying to implement an example experiment for someone in Stefan Treue’s lab, and it involves interaction via the keyboard.

It looks like the HID plugin might be able to support this, since the keyboard is a USB device. However, it’s probably total overkill for something as simple as text input.

Thanks,
Chris

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No keyboard input yet. So far, any time anyone wanted one, they found out that what they really wanted was the gamepad plugin.

HID might be the way to go for keyboard input, even if it is overkill, because I’m not sure the normal OS X event loop stuff has particularly strong low-latency expectations associated with it.

– Dave