On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:05:20AM +0530, J Pradeep wrote: > > Hi *, > I had a doubt. How do you choose which mouse should act on which program > ? If you can define proper symantics for that it should be possible. I > think you can tinker the mouse-driver to reflect your symantics. But first > you should get clear about how exactly the program-mouse association is > brought about. > One obvious way I can think of immeiately is that the program which > needs this second mouse registers with the second mouse. Then the second > mouse passes any messages to this program only. However if you want a > program to use both these mouses - things may get complicated ! > > Can some experts working on mice comment on this. If you have multiple mice (like USB or serial mice) they are avaiable as /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/mouse1, and so on. All of the mice mixed together is at /dev/input/mice. So if you only want to read from one mouse, just read the one device, and not the mixture. Hope this helps, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
