[haiku] Re: VMW tools as (optional) package
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:49:30 +0100 CET
> Le 26 janv. 09 à 15:18, holmqvist.fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
> > They are quite simple. Just look at the source. I think the wmvare
> > mouse driver would benefit from using absolute
> > coords instead of relative.
> > They are currently in floating point 0 to 1.
> I started creating an input_server add-on for the vmware mouse (using
> the "tablet" and "serial_mouse" add-ons as examples), I made it
> working but there are still issues :
> - Like you said, coordinates are floating numbers from 0 to 1, and
> unfortunately the VMW backdoor returns the coordinates in pixel.
> So for now I just use :
> float x = cursor_x;
> float y = cursor_y;
> x /= 1024.0;
> y /= 768.0;
> which is only working if the screen resolution is 1024x768, of
> course.
> I suppose I could get the current resolution and detect resolution
> changes, but support for absolute coordinates would probably be
> better.
Filter addons can use a GetScreenRegion() but not the Device addons...
You can probably just use BScreen::Frame() .Width() and .Height()
(beware off by 1!)
And hope it won't deadlock.
> - Haiku is receiving data from the (virtual) PS2 or USB mouse and
> the VMW mouse at the same time, so the cursors flashes (and dragging
> does not work very well).
> Disabling the "mouse" add-on is not an option, since the buttons
> status is not sent by VMWare...
> I guess that I could write an input_server filter to make it ignore
> the "mouse moved" events from the USB mouse, but this is going
> complicated...
Or just instead overrides the mouse moves from the mouse addon with the
absolute coordinates.
> Perhaps a better option could be to directly patch the "mouse" add-
> on,
> making it send absolute coordinates when it is running in VMWare and
> the mouse is moved. It would also avoid polling the VMW backdoor
> constantly. I will take a look....
I suppose so.
This design seems quite stupid from vmware... oh well.
François.
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