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From: Enache Adrian <enache@rdslink.ro>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] scrollbuttons 2.0
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:37:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041015233701.GA1111@viezure> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc8f4c2c061263e93ed354e399b8db80@plan9.ucalgary.ca>

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 a.d., andrey mirtchovski wrote:
> because i don't have any other wheel mice around here i'd like to ask
> those of you who are interested to give it a try to download the
> drawterm-linux.gz and drawterm-freebsd.gz clients from
> http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/p9/ and see if their scroll
> buttons work with them.  if you can compile drawterms for MacOSX,
> Windows and your favuorite other OS i'd gladly put them on my page.
> the source is in the same location -- drawterm.tgz.
> 
> i'd also like to ask for suggestions on how to implement it natively
> in Plan 9.  the 'send keyboard command instead of a mouse event'
> requires very little change, but is it 9-ish enough?

i think that drawterm should set bits 4/5 in the packets put on
/dev/mouse (as m5mouseputc() or ps2mouseputc() are doing), so any
application could handle those events as it sees fit.

a small program passed in the -k switch to rio could then transform
them into Kup/Kdown.

regards,
Adi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-15 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-15 20:36 andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-15 22:23 ` [9fans] mk question rog
2004-10-15 22:47   ` Russ Cox
2004-10-16  8:01     ` Bruce Ellis
2004-10-16 11:23   ` Charles Forsyth
2004-10-15 23:37 ` Enache Adrian [this message]
2004-10-15 23:54   ` [9fans] scrollbuttons 2.0 andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-18  9:38   ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-20 17:49     ` Enache Adrian

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