Re: Need a direction to XInput support in NSEvent.

[Banlu Kemiyatorn]

On 2004-01-29 22:40:33 +0700 Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:

> I was talking about overloading the meaning of delta[XYZ] to mean instead 
> tiltX, tiltY, rotation (for example). For instance, you could set the event 
> type to NSOtherMouse, use the buttonNumber field to specify the device id or 
> perhaps there should be some consistent mapping between the buttonNumber and 
> the type of device (we don't currently set or use buttonNumber).

Is that mean normal app won't be able to use the device as a traditional mouse
if it ignore NSOtherMouse? I am thinking of splitting the event into a status 
event one
and follow by the actual mouse event one but I think that's unnecessarily 
complex.
And what if the device want to use the other mouse button? Use flags on 
buttonNumber?

> An alternative would be to define your own special event sub-type under the 
> NSAppKitEvent or NSSystemEvent type. As an absolute last resort we could 
> define a new event type with it's own ivars and init method - but that would 
> potentially make things incompatible with MacOS X

Last time I checked it, almost a year ago, in OSX it involved a Carbon structure
and I cannot see any good reason to follow that.