PD-OSS: On-Screen Slider for Project DIVA Arcade Future Tone

Features

• Supports mouse and multitouch input
• Lights up with colors

How to Use

PD-OSS is developed and tested on Windows. It should run on other operating systems with minimal changes; see notes below.

Prepare the serial port

This app communicates via COM12. Connect COM12 on the machine running PD-OSS to COM11 on the machine running PDAFT. If it happens to be the same machine, use a virtual null modem cable such as com0com. (If you're on a fresh install of a recent version of Windows 10, you may need to use the signed driver installer of com0com from here, instead of the official site. Reason Link source)

Install dependencies and run app

The easy way

Coming Soon^TM

The hard way

• Create a new Python 3 virtualenv. PD-OSS is developed on Python 3.7. Other versions of Python 3 may also work.
• Install dependencies: Kivy, pySerial and pywin32.
• Run slider.py from this repository under the virtualenv.

Run the game

The game should detect the slider, and print out "TOUCH SLIDER BD: OK" on the loading screen. Once the game is loaded, you should see rainbow colors on the slider.

Cross-Platform Notes

Both Kivy and pySerial are supported on many operating systems. pywin32, which is obviously Windows specific, is used to make the slider window ignore focus when clicked, so that when you touch the slider, the slider window does not steal focus away from the game window.

If references to pywin32 is removed, PD-OSS should run on Linux and other platforms, but the game window constantly losing focus may interfere with gameplay.

Reference

Serial protocol used by the slider: https://gist.github.com/dogtopus/b61992cfc383434deac5fab11a458597

License

Files in this repository are licensed under GNU GPLv3.