Re: [9fans] cooked mouse mode.

[Gorka Guardiola <paurea@lsub.org>]

>> Well, actually the plan was to get applications use the
>> cooked mode; and get rid of the need for raw mode.
> 
> the nice thing about raw mode is that the relationship with what the
> mouse is actually doing is beautifully simple and easy to explain.
> 
> "cooking" the mouse involves the application of a certain amount of
> convention as to what sort of events one would like to see.
> 
> your convention assumes that applications are interested in clicking
> and chording.
> 
> some applications might wish to know about other kinds of mouse
> action, mouse gestures, or click-and-hold, perhaps.

The language for cooked mouse is very general. Except for mouse gestures
if you want them without any button clicked, I think most of the things you
say can be used in cooked mode.

You have Click preffix, Slide events and many others (look at the
man page).

> 
> or, as charles points out, one might wish to pre-filter events, for
> example to remove redundant mouse-moved events or perhaps to integrate
> input from another device.

I would guess that kind of thing should be done with a filesystem wrapper like
we are already doing.


										G.