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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