Erast Benson wrote:
This is a nice feature. But this is not what I wanted. I'd like to have
some way to distribute "cooked" mouse events to text only applications,
like screen, ncurses-based apps, generic console, etc.
You'ld just need to put code into curses or another library to read the
VUID events from /dev/mouse, which are pretty cooked already. All the
details of handling USB vs. PS2 vs. SPARC serial mouse are hidden in the
kernel modules, as is handling multiple mice in S10U1 & Nevada, and all
you need to know is to open /dev/mouse and read the motion and button
events.
For example, if you look in Xorg 6.9's Solaris mouse code in
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/sunos/sun_mouse.c
the event decoding is simply reading from /dev/mouse in chunks
the size of the Firm_event defined in <sys/vuid_event.h> and
parsing the simple event types:
if (pVuidMse->event.id >= BUT_FIRST && pVuidMse->event.id <= BUT_LAST)
{ /* button */
int butnum = pVuidMse->event.id - BUT_FIRST;
if (butnum < 3)
butnum = 2 - butnum;
if (!pVuidMse->event.value)
buttons &= ~(1 << butnum);
else
buttons |= (1 << butnum);
} else if (pVuidMse->event.id >= VLOC_FIRST &&
pVuidMse->event.id <= VLOC_LAST) {
/* axis */
int delta = pVuidMse->event.value;
switch(pVuidMse->event.id) {
case LOC_X_DELTA:
dx += delta;
break;
case LOC_Y_DELTA:
dy -= delta;
break;
case LOC_X_ABSOLUTE:
if (absXset) {
vuidFlushAbsEvents(pInfo, absX, absY, &absXset, &absYset);
}
absX = delta;
absXset = TRUE;
break;
case LOC_Y_ABSOLUTE:
if (absYset) {
vuidFlushAbsEvents(pInfo, absX, absY, &absXset, &absYset);
}
absY = delta;
absYset = TRUE;
break;
}
}
Should be trivial to translate into the appropriate code in curses or similar
libraries. There's even events for wheels on wheel mice.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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