Re: [iPAQ] Buttons and applications

tom,

let's distinguish between launching applications/menus and talking to
applications with the ipaq dash buttons.

the former is considerably more complicated than the latter. the blackbox
development types obviously recognized this when they split out key
configuration to a separate application called bbkeys.

we examined bbkeys as a possible route, but decided that the bbkeys
configuration tool carried too much library baggage to make
it worth our while; we just wanted the four buttons on the ipaq's dash to
work.

however, if all that you want to do is map a particular button onto a
particular keycode that an existing application expects, that's quite
simple. yes, i think an indivdual wrapper with xmodmap calls might work
great for each application, although you want to consider the consequences
of concurrent apps running with different mappings for the same key!

-steve
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Steven M. Ayer steven.ayer@compaq.com
Compaq Computer Corporation 617-551-7716
Cambridge Research Laboratory
One Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
Received on Mon Feb 19 10:25:03 2001