Am Donnerstag, 06.03.03 um 02:20 Uhr schrieb Brian Keefer:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Darius wrote:
Can Squeak allow two mice on the same PC to control two HandMorphs at the same time in the same project?
Yes, but not out-of-the-box. I had this working once on Linux via the tablet primitives on top of xinput - every connected mouse shows up as a separate xinput device. I do not know if there is a similar API on other platforms.
You could also just go with squeak manually reading a serial port, and drawing a cursor for, the second hand. We don't need no steenkin os!
Well, XF86 supports four major types of mice, one of which is serial (the others are PS/2, USB, and BusMouse). For serial mice alone, there are 9 different protocols supported. You'd have a heck of a time implementing all this again ;-)
I'd rather just fire up X with Squeak as the only application. In fact, it's easy to create a "Squeak session" for xdm/gdm/kdm that takes you from login prompt into Squeak in less than a second - I tried :-)
-- Bert