Ok. I definitely think that a return value would make driver message more
useful. I'll try to implement this soon, and change the naming convention for
drivers somehow.

Quoting Pascal Bauermeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Micah Dowty wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, it should be possible to create an "input" driver that
> doesn't do
> > anything except respond to driver messages. I've actually been
> thinking about
> > renaming input drivers to 'generic' drivers, so we have video drivers
> and
> > generic drivers. There could only be one video driver at a time, and
> it would be
> > special-purpose, but there could be any number of generic drivers to
> handle
> > input, power management, sound, etc.
> 
> Good. This will be cleaner. For now we'll use an input driver to treat
> driver msgs.
> 
> Another question: sometimes we would like to ask the driver a question
> (like: is
> your hardware connected ?). Is there anything foreseen for this purpose
> ? (A
> possibility could be to have drivermessage() and pgDriverMessage()
> return a long).
> 
> 
> 
> > Quoting Pascal Bauermeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 
> > > Hello Micah,
> > >
> > > The driver messages are a great thing to handle extraneous events.
> As I
> > > understand, they are sent to the active video and input drivers.
> > >
> > > I would like to bind an extra driver specifically dedicated to
> handle
> > > several kinds of messages. How is it possible ?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > >   Pascal
> 
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