On Wed, 2004-04-14 14:56:20 -0600, Xu, Jiang <Jiang.Xu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <F71A246055866844B66AFEB10654E7860F1B0D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 2. In the application, how can I know which input/event# the usb keyboard
> connects to?
You don't. You can
- Hope that your keyboard is the one and only device...
- Read /proc/bus/input/devices - there should be a "kbd" handler
in the "H: " section
- select() on all event* devices and just only process
keypresses generated from "normal" keys.
> 3. Is there some reference documents about how to read things from
> input/event# ? I mean such as how to read key event?
I don't think there's really good docu available, but it's really
simple. Just open all devices, select() until there's data available (or
just call a blocking read() on it). Something like this should work, but
you'd better add error checking to the open() call...
#include <linux/input.h>
ssize_t ret;
struct input_event my_input;
int fd;
fd = open ("/dev/input/event0", O_RDONLY);
for (;;) {
ret = read (fd, &my_input, sizeof (my_input));
if (ret != sizeof (my_input)
break;
if (my_input.type != EV_KEY)
continue;
/* my_input.code and my_input.type now contain the key and
press/release state; refer to the #defines in linux/input.h
for the mapping .code -> ASCII value */
}
close (fd);
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