Re: Offtopic: simulating a keystroke

James Mastros (abszero@epix.net)
Wed, 09 Jul 1997 19:00:58 -0400


At 08:50 PM 8/7/97 +0800, Stephen Williams wrote:
>
>fb@chibacity.com said:
>> I was thinking one day and wondered what would be involved in writing
>> a configurable daemon to watch the joystick and simulate keystrokes
>> according to the state of the stick and the buttons.
>
>Erm, wouldn't it be easier to write a joystick driver?

Already is one (as of 2.1.47, I think), but neither Quake nor Doom use it,
and you can't hack one in unless you like hacking in machine code. <G>

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>Steve Williams
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