From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Aug 30 14:41:10 2010 X-ME-UUID: 20100830183853558.885DF700021D@mwinf2a07.orange.fr Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:38:53 +0200 From: Patrice Mandin To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] AES related question: How to keep track if my application is receiving input? Message-Id: <20100830203853.9b81d5a6.mandin.patrice@orange.fr> In-Reply-To: References: <611C3B470A9C41BBB2E509D0240FE5EA@mercatus.local> <0002c138.01c73262939e@smtp.freeola.net> <092ed0763bd1932924f163c30cdd45b1-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUNBAjBTXF5bVkYMXUF0AVU6XF1XQ0IBWVldSQ==-webmailer2@server04.webmailer.hosteurope.de> <5e1884ed40ca99bb1881157ad80d2fa0-EhVcX1lFRQVaRwYcDTpQCEFddQZLVF5dQUNBAjBTXF5bVkYBVkF3Alw6XF1XQkQKW1leSQ==-webmailer2@server01.webmailer.hosteurope.de> Organization: Chez moi X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.12; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mandin.patrice@orange.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o7UIfAaP028382 Le Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:10:09 +1000 Paul Wratt a écrit: > At an OS level, I would say the keyboard would have to be absracted > (thru IKBD vector?), hence a keyboard driver, that could do the same > as described above > > The only real question on that last point is: > how would the events be supplied to the upper levels (program, aes, > etc) if they know the facility is available > > As it happens this could also be simply extended to provide other key > & button (read: generic input) related functions (at the os level), if > it was a driver, maybe combining deadkeys + wmoose would make sense. > Or offering access to other input devices (Joystick, tablet,etc) - > someone has already asked for RFC for Joystick API Yep, I think it was me, if you are refering to this post (December 2009): http://sparemint.org/mailinglist/Mailing-Lists/MiNT-List.200912/20091212142750.70e17e6e.mandin.patrice@orange.fr.text -- Patrice Mandin WWW: http://pmandin.atari.org/ Programmeur Linux, Atari Spécialité: Développement, jeux "who writes the code, decides"