Re: OT: Debian for infants

2001-04-09 Thread Scott_Patterson
It's a little off-topic, but, the orginial request was made on this list and several people were interested in it. So, I created it. It's called babytouch and you can get it at http://members.accesstoledo.com/patterson. It's only available as source so you'll need C and SDL development stuff to com

Re: Debian for infants.

2001-04-08 Thread Felix Natter
Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 > month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or > sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. > > Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto

Re: Debian for infants

2001-04-06 Thread Scott_Patterson
>I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 >month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or >sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. > >Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be >re-directed into the

Re: Debian for infants

2001-04-06 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
XGrabKeyboard, according to its description, "actively grabs control of the keyboard and generates FocusIn and FocusOut events. Further key events are reported only to the grabbing client..." Might be some help Tiarnan __ Do You Yahoo!? Get em

Re: Debian for infants.

2001-04-06 Thread Tiarnan O'Corrain
Sounds like a really cool idea... perhaps you could assign events to key presses and mouse movements in your window manager, though redirecting to stdin is a more elegant idea. Could you make the program available when you've finished it? Cheers Tiarnan

Re: Debian for infants.

2001-04-06 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Kieren Diment wrote: > I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 > month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or > sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. > > Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input

Debian for infants.

2001-04-05 Thread Kieren Diment
I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be re-directed into the stdin for