From: teunis <teunis@computersupportcentre.com>
  To  : andreas.beck@ggi-project.org
  Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:09:01 -0700 (MST)

Re: Gii integration (was shmem integration)

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998 becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:

> Hi folks !
> 
> > So - is it possible to control how memvisual handles keyboard/mouse/etc?
> > as in - if some environment value is set (or a parameter), read from a
> > pipe (of some kind) or set of pipes [keyboard, mouse, ...]
> 
> No. You bring up a very valid point here. We didn't do much about input
> handling, and I think there is room for improvement, and we should do it
> now (it's easy) to avoid bringing something out that brings back trouble
> later.
> 
> The idea is the following :
> 
> Have a gii_input_t that describes _all_ attached input systems.
> This is done by making it a linked list, what allows to attach/detach
> event sources as required.

Hmm.  I don't see any problems (personally :) but I'd love to see an
interrupt-hook type system...
ie:

GIIsetCallback(-intput system-, -callback function-)

and have -callback function- be called on receiving events...

I suspect this kind of system is only really duable with threads
though.... *le really deep sigh*
(this is one of the main reasons I tend to work with multithreaded code - 
I like this way of handling things and it's more useful with, say,
realtime data)

G'day, eh? :)
	- Teunis