Messages in this thread | | | From | Holger Schurig <> | Subject | Re: cell-phone like keyboard driver anywhere? | Date | Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:54:11 +0200 |
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> IMO this should not be done by the kernel, but by the application.
One can read such stuff all the time ... but really this is not possible in a general way. You don't know in advance if one runs a ncurses, text-only, Qt/Embedded or X-Windows application.
> - it is easy for the application to check the timing of the > keys pressed and produce the desired characters instead [poll (2)].
Yes, it's easy to put that in a Qt/Embedded app, but what is when the app terminates? You could not restart it via the keyboard, because the keyboard is dead. Yeah, it's cumbersome to restart it with a cell-like keyboard, but it's possible.
Anyway, I have to write it low-level, in the kernel. I just wondered if something like this already exists.
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