hi Richard,

well u got my problem, but i don't want to use X api's, for mouse.=20
basically, what i am doing is simply........

1. Detecting the mouse clicks in text mode and then send it accross to =
my       windows program for display.
2. Detecting the keyboard hits in text mode and then send it accross to =
my       windows program for display.

For mouse i cannot find any such api. I m not bothered even if mouse =
don't work on X, but have to get the events detected in text wmode =
without the use of api's provided by X.

Regards
Rishabh

-----Original Message-----
From:	Richard Rauch [mailto:rkr@olib.org]
Sent:	Thu 7/10/2003 12:11 AM
To:	Rishabh Kumar Goel; port-i386@netbsd.org
Cc:=09
Subject:	Re: how to use mouse api if any
Re. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2003/07/09/0000.html

(This question isn't really i386-specific and probably should have been
asked over on netbsd-help...)

Reading /dev/wsmouse for /dev/wsmouse0 is probably what you want to do,
yes.  (Assuming that you mean that you want to read mouse events from a
text console.)

My suspicion is that you mean that when you did "cat /dev/wsmouse0" from
a text console, then flipped to the X sever (while "cat" was still
running), the X server wasn't able to re-open the mouse event stream.
All that this is telling *me* is that you can't have multiple readers of
the mouse.


If you want to get the mouse events from X, then you should probably be
talking to X rather than digging under X's feet.


--=20
  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  =
http://www.olib.org/~rkr/




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