FLOSC GLOVEPIE FLASH

Working on a MACBOOK the "wiiflash server" did not see my connected wii remote. It told me no wii remotes were connected.

(Not on the XP side, neither on the OS side)

(Never buy a MacBook: the double boot is ok, but all kind of problems with 3D programs, like Second Life BLENDER, and now also wiiflash, the Xcode is ok though, nice making a game for the Iphone, see other blogs)

Working on the XP side:

BlueSoleil only caused other problems.
So i relied on the simple bluetooth window provided by XP for connecting the wii remote.
Then i remembered the FLOSC, i searched the internet and found some vague references to this alternative to the wiiflash server.

After a bit of experimenting i found out what to combine and how:

1. Connect the wiiremote
2. start up GlovePie with this script (example script to connect and read a few values, change to what you need)

OSC.port = 5000 // referring to OSC port in FLOSC ... OSC can be changed, it is just a variable name
OSC.ip = "localhost"
OSC.broadcast = true

OSC.wii.x = Wiimote.gx
OSC.wii.y = Wiimote.gy
OSC.wii.z = Wiimote.gx

OSC.roll = RemoveUnits(Wiimote.Roll)
OSC.pitch = RemoveUnits(Wiimote.Pitch)


3. start FLOSC:
portnumbers from GLOVEPIE and FLASH











4. example script in FLASH with a XMLsocket connection reading the XML input coming from FLOSC:

import flash.events.*;
import flash.net.XMLSocket;

var hostName:String = "127.0.0.1";
var port:uint = 1250; // referring to flash port in FLOSC
var socket:XMLSocket;

socket = new XMLSocket();
socket.connect(hostName, port);

socket.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, dataHandler);

function dataHandler(event:DataEvent):void {
var xmlData = new XML();
xmlData.ignoreWhite=true;
xmlData = XML(event.data);

/* comment example
ADDRESS = attribute
MESSAGE = descendant

incoming: (picture, because XML data are not visible on this page :-)




gives: (with trace line below)

/wii/x
f -3.9451861
*/

trace( xmlData.descendants("MESSAGE").attribute("NAME") );
trace( xmlData.descendants("ARGUMENT").attribute("TYPE") + " " + xmlData.descendants("ARGUMENT").attribute("VALUE") );

}

6. make use of the data in fancy flash application!

for instance: asking for the x value:

if ( String(xmlData.descendants("MESSAGE").attribute("NAME")) == "/wii/x")
giveNumberX.text =String(xmlData.descendants("ARGUMENT").attribute("VALUE"));

putting the value in the field giveNumberX.

Have fun!