[haiku] Re: VMW tools as (optional) package
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:38:43 +0100 CET
Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A regular mouse just sends the computer messages like "the user moved
> me
> by 1 cm up and 1 cm left", and then the OS moves the cursor on the
> screen. In a virtualized environment, you need instead a driver that
> understands messages like "the user moved me to the screen
> coordinates
> 300,400".
Haiku can do both, so the mouse driver could just handle this
correctly.
Bye,
Axel.
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