nanogui: a question about flnx on framebuffer
Subject:
Re: Re: a question about flnx on framebuffer
From:
Jordan Crouse ####@####.####
Date:
30 Apr 2001 18:44:36 -0000
Message-Id: <0104301245120C.00902@cosmic>
I would suggest a custom microwindows driver that watches the file for reads
/write and then parses the incoming data and passes along the standard
Microwindows path. See any one of the mou_* drivers for an example.
Jordan
On Monday 30 April 2001 12:30, Alex Pavloff mentioned:
> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Alex Pavloff wrote:
> > > While we're talking about mice, I've got a question. We're using and
>
> are
>
> > > still planning to use, mainly for cost issues, a grid touch screen. It
>
> sits
>
> > > on a quarter-VGA panel, and is quite adequate for the purposes that we
>
> use,
>
> > > which is basically to punch buttons on the screen. What's going to be
>
> the
>
> > > best way to get this going with Microwindows?
> >
> > That depends on what the interface to it looks like. Is it a
> > serial port device or do you need to drive the hardware directly? If the
> > former, does it emulate some other common mouse device or use its own
>
> protocol?
>
> It's a specialized piece of hardware. In our current system (DOS with a
> cheezy multitasking OS layered on top of it), we've wrote module (in
> assembly) that runs every 30 milliseconds or so and fills a mailbox with
> the row/col of any hit it detects. It's a very simple device actually.
>
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