Subject: Re: 4-button mouse
To: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/13/1997 00:28:59
Joel Klecker wrote:
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> 1997-11-12 at approximately 05:33 AM -0800, Ken Nakata wrote:
> >I feel ashamed.  Anyway, by my "Probably not" reply, I meant it
> >probably doesn't use Extended Mouse Protocol.  As a matter of fact, I
> >think I tried it with no avail.
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> If the kernel recognizes the device as having four buttons, does that mean
> that the "extra" buttons actually work? (My LCIII with an "ADBTEST" kernel
> (a long time ago) recognized my Kensington Turbo Mouse (trackball) as a
> four button device, however, I never used X or anything that used >1 button
> on that machine, so I am unsure if it actually worked.)

At least 3 of them should.  I'm not sure the X server would take notice of
the 4th button, tho.  I think we use a char to represent the button state,
so I guess the kernel could technically handle up to 8 buttons (although
I've got no idea what you'd do with all of them ;-)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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