On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Lux Vampere wrote: > Another way to solve my problem would be to catch the data in the > driver, and then broadcast it to the system programmatically. Does > this make sense and could there be side effects (like the keys > being fired several times in some situations, where the device is > not opened exclusively for some reason)? Can this be easily > achieved on Linux? Typically, I'll have a key event in the form of > an 8 bytes buffer, coming from the USB wire, that I'd like to fire > as a system wide key event...
This is all pure speculation, since I haven't done much with generating events, but if you open the device exclusively, then you shouldn't have to worry about multiple copies of a given event. (Also, I usually refer to opening the *device* exclusively, where libhid is really opening an *interface* exclusively. If your device only has one interface, this may be a moot point.) I don't know if the Linux input subsystem supports injecting events from user space, though. Maybe there are some keyboard macro programs out there that would have examples on how to do that? If you limit your scope to X11 applications, I am pretty sure that it is possible to generate fake X key events. -- Charles Lepple _______________________________________________ libhid-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/libhid-discuss http://libhid.alioth.debian.org/
