Re: question about liballeg.a
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 16, 2008
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The only problem I have now is not having frame-buffer mouse support.
What's the problem with doing: integer h = open("/dev/mice", "r") ?! or "/dev/psaux", etc?
Because that gives you the GPM mouse which doesn't seem to work
in frame-buffer mode.
What?!
/dev/mice and /dev/psaux are supported not only by /usr/bin/X (i.e. the X server accessing your video card directly thru the ioports and/or DRM kernel driver) but also by Xfbdev, the implementation of X11 on top of fbdev.
GPM works (or used to work) by opening /dev/psaux (or whatever device pointed to the mouse) in a daemon process and then allowed client applications to get mouse events by reading a fifo named /dev/gpmctl.
Incidentally my motor library will run X11, Motif, Xt, Athena euphoria
code but they require a lot of work to write a program.
If all you need are graphics primitives, I do not see why this is so much work (other than to create the initial window to draw on).
