rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) (01/10/91)
Is there any work in progress on supporting the X Input Extension in
the Xt Translation Manager? Specifically, I'd like to write
applications that didn't have to understand the input extension to
work with extension devices. I should be able to take a widget and
augment it's translation table with an entry for an extension device
to control an action, i.e.:
<KNOB_BOX: DeviceMotion>: DrawPixel()
It seems that the only thing needed is to augment the existing String
to Translation converter (and possibly some of the event handling).
This would go a long way towards integrating tablets, dial boxes,
button boxes, etc., into the X environment. Toolkit literate
applications wouldn't need anything except a recompile (and not even
that if they used shared libraries and dynamic linking) to take
advantage of these input devices.
Any comments?
-- Rich
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