Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!ctrsol!ginosko!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Sullivan From: Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Mouse buttons (and Boing! Mouse.) Message-ID: <20409@cup.portal.com> Date: 14 Jul 89 00:45:03 GMT References: <8907031413.AA11261@jade.berkeley.edu> <1713@ucqais.uc.edu> <7593@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <7213@cbmvax.UUCP> <446@gtss.gatech.edu> <20308@cup.portal.com> <1105@elmgate.UUCP> Distribution: usa Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 34 >In article <20308@cup.portal.com> Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall) writes: >>btw: I just purchased a surplus Sun Mouse, (Blue x Grey lined pad) only to find >>that it has a serial interface, Anyone know where to tie in to get the raw >>quadratature signals from this mouse? Help greatly appreciated. > > >Before I discovered this, I wrote a serial mouse driver which worked fine >for most "normal" programs, but the code that handles gurus (i.e. >"Press left mouse button to continue") apparently reads the mouse hardware >directly (what else can it do?) and doesn't respond. If there's any >interest in this code, I'll make it available. >-- >Ed Hanway >Eastman Kodak Company ...!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jeh >#include I'd be very interested in your code (if you are willing, you could submit it to comp.sources.amiga (or binaries) as an example of alternative input drivers. -- next step, proportional joystick pointers, light gun pointers, koala pad pointers...) Btw: many thanks for the conversion instructions. I do in fact have a mousesystems something or other. I'll try the mod out asap. Thanks again. -ss -Sullivan Segall _________________________________________________________________ /V\ Sullivan was the first to learn how to jump without moving. ' Is it not proper that the student should surpass the teacher? To Quote the immortal Socrates: "I drank what?" -Sullivan _________________________________________________________________ Mail to: ...sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Sullivan or Sullivan@cup.portal.com