jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway) (03/01/89)
I am strongly considering getting a MacII for my Unix development. I understand that X 11 under A/UX uses the cursor keys for the left and right mouse buttons. If you are really going to use X this does not seem like a very workable solution (i.e. ok for occasional use but makeing any common mouse action require an extra hand movement seems pretty undesrieable). What are the issues in connecting a 3 button mouse to a MacII? the possible confgurations in order of desireability seem to be: add serial mouse to existing or additional serial port, add a A/UX driver for it and use this mouse only under X, and the standard ADB mouse for Mac OS. same as above, but modify/replace the existing mouse driver to allow Mac/OS to view all the buttons as "one" and for X to distinguish them, thus having only one mouse for both. same as above but build a serial->ADB converter. Can this be powered off the ADB? i.e. as long as it doesn't need another cord it would not be a hassle. Are there issues that make this practicaly impossible? Is it doable by a third party? What gives? Of course what I would REALLY like is to be able to run a (32 bit clean) MacOS program IN an X window, but thats another topic. apple!jrg John R. Galloway, Jr. contract programmer, San Jose, Ca These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!
john@unisoft.UUCP (John Sovereign) (03/04/89)
In article <26543@apple.Apple.COM> jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway) writes: > >What are the issues in connecting a 3 button mouse to a MacII? the possible >confgurations in order of desireability seem to be: > add serial mouse to existing or additional serial port, add a > A/UX driver for it and use this mouse only under X, and > the standard ADB mouse for Mac OS. > same as above, but modify/replace the existing mouse driver to > allow Mac/OS to view all the buttons as "one" and for > X to distinguish them, thus having only one mouse for both. > same as above but build a serial->ADB converter. Can this be > powered off the ADB? i.e. as long as it doesn't need > another cord it would not be a hassle. >Are there issues that make this practicaly impossible? Is it doable by a >third party? What gives? Of course what I would REALLY like is to be able to Ja, these ideas have been tossed around here by three-button addicts. Number one is definitely doable by a third-party; the existing serial i/o driver has hooks for other protocols. You should join APDA and buy a copy of the A/UX Device Driver Kit ($80). The Kit includes driver sources and describes the autoconfiguration evironment on A/UX. >apple!jrg John R. Galloway, Jr. contract programmer, San Jose, Ca John Sovereign UniSoft Corporation uunet!unisoft!john