New at this, where do i start?

ocularbob · 01-20-2003, 02:44 PM

I want to start coding again and need to know where and with what i sould get started.
I'm looking to build a GUI app that will access a second mouse on usb
and use it's output to control variables(like volume,desktop switching,and the buttons would launch a user specified app) in KDE.
this is certainly a larger undertaking than i think, but i'm gonna give it a wack anyway.

so any advice? thanks in advance.

GtkUser · 01-21-2003, 03:46 AM

GTK+ or QT if you want to use native code, otherwise Java. You can draw windows and controls and use events with any of these.

ocularbob · 01-21-2003, 05:26 AM

so i've been reading the kdevelop manual and coming along ok.
but i've not seen much info about devices and/or usb.

oh, and what if I wanted to take a look at the source for the mouse control center app?

thanks for the reply. hopefully my cries for help will become less general

llama_meme · 01-21-2003, 01:08 PM

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so i've been reading the kdevelop manual and coming along ok.
but i've not seen much info about devices and/or usb.

Well, handling a second mouse is going to require some pretty low-level programming. I doubt Qt or Gtk support a second mouse, you might have to use raw X for that, or possibly go even lower-level than that.

Alex

ocularbob · 01-21-2003, 01:33 PM

yeah thats what i'm starting to see.
But what about this?
I have a Logitech Marble mouse. It's got 4 buttons (2 intended to be scroll up and down). The scroll buttons are both treated as the middle button.
any idea how to setup an app to reconfigure what the buttons do.
I guess i just need to know where the program will need to run. (control center module, applet, kernel, commandline, etc..)
I'm sure that i will fail a thousand times at this.
but i'm also sure I'll learn a ton along the way.
Thanks for any and all help.

oulevon · 01-21-2003, 10:34 PM

I'm not sure because I've never done this, but if you want a device to function differently than it is programmed to, I would think you'd have to rewrite the driver for it. I might be wrong, but that's my guess.