Trigger Bitwig API java actions from PC keyboard

[dungle]

Is it possible? I mean one would install a controller script with 0 midi ports, the script would have a callback for a keyboard event which would call API functions to perform the action(s). Wishful thinking, or what?

[moss]

Is it possible? I mean one would install a controller script with 0 midi ports, the script would have a callback for a keyboard event which would call API functions to perform the action(s). Wishful thinking, or what?

Yes and no. Java is running in headless mode with Bitwig which means you have no access to user interface functionality which includes keyboard presses. Solutions to that would be:
1. Write or find a C library (should be platform indepenedent) which you could include in your Java extension to get the key presses
2. Involve a separate app which catches the key presses and sends them to a Bitwig Java extension via the network, e.g. use OSC.

[shaboogen]

Yes and no. Java is running in headless mode with Bitwig which means you have no access to user interface functionality which includes keyboard presses. Solutions to that would be:
1. Write or find a C library (should be platform indepenedent) which you could include in your Java extension to get the key presses
2. Involve a separate app which catches the key presses and sends them to a Bitwig Java extension via the network, e.g. use OSC.

Maybe a dumb question, but is the same thing true of the javascript API implementation?

Thanks.

[moss]

Yes and no. Java is running in headless mode with Bitwig which means you have no access to user interface functionality which includes keyboard presses. Solutions to that would be:
1. Write or find a C library (should be platform indepenedent) which you could include in your Java extension to get the key presses
2. Involve a separate app which catches the key presses and sends them to a Bitwig Java extension via the network, e.g. use OSC.

Maybe a dumb question, but is the same thing true of the javascript API implementation?

Thanks.

No. There is no way with JavaScript I am aware of to do this.