Hi Steve, On 12/10/2009 12:03 PM, Steve Lee wrote: > 2009/12/9 Willie Walker <[email protected]>: >> So that leaves GOK users who depend upon switch-based access. With XEvIE >> having suffered a ill-fated death, poor GOK is being attacked on yet another >> side. So, I think it may make sense to revisit switch-based access once >> XInput2 is more prevalent. At that time, we may also investigate other new >> ideas for switch-based access such as Nomon, Jambu, etc. Until that point, >> we may need to recommend that existing switch-based users remain on GNOME >> 2.28 -- I'm not sure if that's an acceptable thing, however, and will check. > > As most switches these days appear as USB HID devices, through the use > of physical interfaces such as the JoyCable, it is possible to get > switch input events using PyGame Joystick support (though you have to > poll). So in Jambu the following is used from the main GTK pump > http://www.oatsoft.org/svn/jambu/trunk/src/lib/jambu/Switch.py
The switch interfaces that I've run across emulate USB mice. Thanks for letting me know about the switch interfaces that emulate USB joysticks. I agree with you that the solution for switch access will need to support both types of devices - hopefully we do this with a single API. I'll look into getting a JoyCable for my future development. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
