On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Charles Lepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 23, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Adrian Parker wrote: > > I'm wondering if libhid is the library for me. I need to allow the >>>> user to press a button which will be used as a Press to Talk button >>>> in a project I'm working on. The catch of course is that I don't >>>> know which USB device the user will press the button on (although >>>> I'll most likely limit users to joypads and headsets with buttons). >>>> >>> >>> From this description I would suggest that you simply use the kernel >>> input event layer. >>> >>> >> That would not be portable though right? I'm developing this for Windows >> and Linux. >> > > Correct. > > I don't believe this is an issue on Windows, but on Linux, you will most > likely have to adjust permissions on every USB device that you want to open In this case I can run the program setuid root. Perhaps not the best fix, but I have that freedom. > Also, there was some discussion on the libusb-win32 list about making > libhid compile under Windows. I don't have a working Windows development > environment where I can test this, but I understand that there was a bit of > global search-and-replace in libhid to get things to compile. I haven't had > the time to find the minimal set of changes necessary, though. > Robert V Krakora has sent me libhid code that works under Windows. Adrian _______________________________________________ libhid-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/libhid-discuss
