[comp.windows.x] Adding new input devices??

mag@genrad.uucp (Michael A. Gray) (06/26/89)

I need to add another input device (a barcode reader) such that it's output is 
recognized by the X server.  The device in question generates ascii strings.

What is the best method to integrate this device into the X environment?

So far, I have done some prototypes that after some other intermediate 
manipulation of the data can register the new input source via the 
XtAppAddInput.

This allows for a clean solution on a per application basis, but does
not give a clean solution for a system solution.


Please feel free to respond to me directly.


Thanks, in advance,

Michael Gray
mag@genrad.genrad.com

CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Christopher Vickery) (06/27/89)

  The file ext.doc in the doc/Server directory  on the core tape tells
how to add devices to the server.  The other files in that directory are
useful too.
  Christopher Vickery
  Queens College of CUNY