This isn't quite gnome but it isn't quite blinux either, apologies if you get this twice.
It's late and I have a crazy idea. I need to look at a lot of 2-dimensional data. Once, long ago, I wrote an application for this for the Next using a mouse. I had never bothered to inquire how mice actually worked so was very surprised to find positions weren't absolute (more enthusiasm than intelligence at work here) so the application "worked" but didn't help. and besides the hardware is long dead. Now I have this useless touchpad taking up space on my laptop. I wonder if I can't turn it into a cheap and nasty graphics tablet? It would need to take pretty much complete control and return absolute positions not relative movements etc but this sounds intriguingly possible? Anyone tried anything this silly or know of documentation that might help? gpm -r in graphics mode on the console looks potentially useful although I'm sure it would be much nicer if this played with gnome. The output side is easy, frequency for value and something giving x,y,value or just value in response to a mouse-click or keypress. I'm happy to write such a thing but if someone wants a little project and my eternal gratitude talk to me off line. cheers Peter -- Peter Rayner: LSCE/IPSL, Laboratoire CEA-CNRS-UVSQ address: Bat. 701 LSCE - CEA de Saclay Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif/Yvette work: +33 (1) 69 08 88 11; mobile: +33 (6) 75 46 56 52; fax: +33 (1) 69 08 77 16 mail-to: peter.ray...@lsce.ipsl.fr web: http://www-lsce.cea.fr/Pisp/52/peter.rayner.html _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
