Launch app on USB event (OS X)

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Mindflow
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Launch app on USB event (OS X)

Post by Mindflow » Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:21 pm

Hi there,

on my Canon scanner there are several buttons that launch some application when they are pressed.
Has anyone managed to reproduce this behavior with V-USB? I'd like to build some button that just starts an application on OS X.
I know USB overdrive but this does not exactly fit my requirements.

If anyone could give me a hint, that would be very much appreciated.

Cheers,

Florian

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Re: Launch app on USB event (OS X)

Post by frank26080115 » Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:09 pm

I'm pretty sure either you can make your device a HID keyboard with additional application keys, or write a background process as a "driver" and make it launch programs.

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