On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 19:38 -0700, Mark Glines wrote:
> On Sunday 27 July 2008 19:22:25 Albert Santoni wrote:
> > Thanks for the bug report Mark. If possible, can you please file a
> > bug report on this in our bug tracker so we don't forget about this?
> 
> Hi!  Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I've logged Bug #252451 to track this issue.
> 

Great, thanks!

> 
> > Unfortunately, the Powermate code in Mixxx is unmaintained at the
> > moment. It probably needs just a few hours of work to fix up some
> > rough spots to make it usable again.
> 
> Ok.  What's it actually *do*?  (Other than crashing mixxx, that is.)  
> Can I attach the powermate knob to control something in the GUI?  I'm 
> very new to mixxx, so I'm not really sure what this feature is capable 
> of, and I wasn't able to find anything about powermates on the wiki.
> 
> 

The button is supposed to toggle play/pause on one of the players.
Turning the knob used to seek back and forth through a track. The light
on the Powermate also used to pulse to the waveform of the song like the
VU meters do, it looked pretty cool. :)

> > If you're interested in taking a crack at it, please take a look at
> > the following files in our source tree:
> >
> > src/powermate.cpp
> > src/powermatelinux.cpp
> >
> > Patches are very much welcome for this code.
> 
> Thanks!  I'm more of a C and Perl man myself, but if I do take a crack 
> at it, I will post the results here and attach them to the bug.
> 

Good luck, and feel free to ask for help if you get stuck.

Thanks,
Albert



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