Re: Capturing USB data?
- From: "David Webber" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:24:42 +0100
"Peter Olcott" <NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:08duk.25564$9u1.1527@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What I really need to do is to capture every keystroke and mouse click and also be able to feed these to the system. I already know how to do this for MS Windows.
I need to generalize this capability across all other platforms, especially Mac OS X, and Linux. My current thinking is adapting a keyboard and mouse driver on these platforms. I would probably start with Intel/Windows because this is the platform that I am the most familiar with.
I was thinking that restricting my research to the USB interface might simplify things since all three platforms provide this interface.
But, as Joe points out, not every input device connected to a USB port is a mouse or a (QWERTY) keyboard. My MIDI (piano) keyboard is just one other example. Given that USB drivers cleverly sort it all out for you, and the system gets the right signals whether they be MIDI, mouse, or QWERTY, doing it yourself would seem to be reinventing a rather complex wheel.
It sounds like you need a cross-platform development library. I have never used one, but lots of people happily use my Windows software on Linux under WINE.
Dave
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