Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:36:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jon M. Taylor" <> | Subject | Re: uniform input device packets? |
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Adam D. Bradley wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:06:53PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > > > > > simplified as mentiond below I think this would also give us an easy hook to use > > > with USB devices. If the program is accepting input and all the devices send the > > > codes (I don't know if we really need the timestamp) the program would then be > > > able to handle them all appropriatly. > > > > Yes; USB input device support could follow fairly easily then. However, USB in > > itself can do more than just input devices. > > Methinks this thing is starting to sound a little bit like the > console-handling part of EvStack as proposed by the GGI folk ... > vaguely speaking, the idea is to provide a 'unified console object' > which delivers a stream of event messages to a process, those events > coming from a set of input devices which are "related to" the console > (keyboard, mouse, joystick, light pen, trackball, retinal orientation > detector, etc). Am I wrong?
No, that is the essence of it. If you want to look at some documentation, go to http://www.ggi-project.org and download the latest snapshot of the development tree and look in degas/doc.
Jon
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