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Posted: Fri 24 Feb, 2006 9:09 am
by Timendus
kerm_martian wrote:Since you got the mouse working and I already have a mouse in Doors CS 5 and support for SEs, this is definitely getting ported.
I can't find the relevant topic atm, but I though you claimed you had already written a mouse driver a few months ago..? Sounds somewhat unfair to claim you wrote something, and then use someone else's hard work.
Posted: Fri 24 Feb, 2006 11:14 am
by benryves
Anyone wanting to test: use
this one instead.
I've lengthed the timeouts and retries on some of the AT routines, as well as adding short pauses when initialising the mouse. As a result, all 3 rodents I had to test with initialise correctly.
The zip also contains a potentially useful AT "terminal", with which you can send commands to the connected device. Curiously, the keyboard I've been using sends F5 rather than FA as an ack... maybe why the PC it used to be on would compain that there wasn't a keyboard attached
As for mixing mouse and cursor keys; the mouse updates the (16-bit) values of Mouse._x and Mouse._y by an offset every Mouse._update, so you can manually change the values if you so wish. It's very easy to mix direct input and the mouse routines, especially as none of the calls in Emerson are blocking
Posted: Fri 24 Feb, 2006 11:40 am
by tr1p1ea
Wow ben, you manage to work on like a large range of projects all at once!
You are definately one of the most productive people in the community
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You development journal is incredible btw
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Posted: Fri 24 Feb, 2006 2:23 pm
by KermMartian
Timendus wrote:kerm_martian wrote:Since you got the mouse working and I already have a mouse in Doors CS 5 and support for SEs, this is definitely getting ported.
I can't find the relevant topic atm, but I though you claimed you had already written a mouse driver a few months ago..? Sounds somewhat unfair to claim you wrote something, and then use someone else's hard work.
Dude, of course I'm going to ask first.
Posted: Fri 24 Feb, 2006 7:07 pm
by Patori
Ben: WTFOMGBBQ?!?!?!
Is that an external power supply I see?
I wanna see you enable clicking with the mouse... that would be super-cooly, chief!!
Posted: Sat 25 Feb, 2006 12:06 am
by Timendus
@Kerm: I expected that much
But didn't you already have it..?
Posted: Sat 25 Feb, 2006 2:40 am
by kalan_vod
Did someone say
WTFOMGBBQ?!?!?!.
Looks great Ben!
Posted: Mon 27 Feb, 2006 10:41 am
by benryves
Patori wrote:Is that an external power supply I see?
The device needs to get 5V from somewhere, sadly.
I wanna see you enable clicking with the mouse... that would be super-cooly, chief!!
Already done, as well as Intellimouse extensions for the scrollwheel
I built myself a proper adapter:
...so testing can be a little easier
Posted: Mon 27 Feb, 2006 11:54 am
by Timendus
Yeah, that's pretty much what I wanted to make
Looking good. I haven't been able to get a PS/2 socket yet though, but I found an old PS/2 mouse with the described four pins inside, so I'll give it another try one of these days
I'm not yet sure where I can get +5v from easily though...
Posted: Mon 27 Feb, 2006 12:02 pm
by benryves
Timendus wrote:I'm not yet sure where I can get +5v from easily though...
Those 5V voltage regulators work a treat.
I got all my parts from Rapid, so was all very cheap.
Posted: Mon 27 Feb, 2006 12:08 pm
by Timendus
Heheh
I was trying to get this done without a trip to the electronics shop
I just checked your development journal, and read about Vinegar
Bloody amazing! How long do you intend not to post this on the MC board?
Posted: Sun 05 Mar, 2006 5:21 am
by KermMartian
Timendus - yes, I did, but I never actually got it working due to lack of oscilloscope.
Posted: Mon 06 Mar, 2006 10:54 am
by benryves
I don't have an oscilloscope either.
I
do have a sound card and copy of CoolEdit, though
Posted: Mon 06 Mar, 2006 12:10 pm
by tr1p1ea
I have CoolEdit Pro 2.0 and i must say that it is a very nice program, although i havent really used it that much.
I think i might go buy one of those 'mini-mice' and one of those laptop sized ps2 keyboards and try this stuff out on the weekend.
Posted: Mon 06 Mar, 2006 1:47 pm
by benryves
In which case, releasing my routines would be useful... building this stuff just for a couple of ropey demos is a bit of a waste of resources!
I've slowed down development after realising that my test keyboard is broken (not sending the correct codes back) - the mouse stuff is pretty sharp, though, so I'll probably release that as a half-version of the include file.
I haven't got around to 5-button mouse support, as this adds even more complexity to the initialisation - in fact, sticking to standard 3-button mouse and no scrollwheel is much better, as it leaves the mouse as "hot-pluggable" and has a much faster initialisation.