[interfacekit] Re: PortThief

>Got a problem for you guys - I wrote an app and I don't know how to use 
it! 
>;P Seriously, though. I can get the data written to any port in the 
system, 
>but I don't know what to do with it from there. What should be done to 
make 
>all the junk I find a port useful for our purposes? Ideas?

Cool!  Unfortunately, I don't really know what to do with it, either.  
There doesn't seem to be a mechanism which could be used to intercept 
port data and then pass it along to it's intended target (I briefly 
looked into this toward the start of the project) -- or maybe you've 
figured that out?  If so, we can learn an *awful* lot by just watching 
what goes though a port when we do certain things (like, say, draw a 
line ;).  Even if you haven't puzzled out the pass-on portion, we might 
still be able to grok a good deal of what goes on between app_server and 
friends -- or input_server and app_server.

In fact, I'm getting an idea.  But then again, it would only be useful 
if we wanted to reverse engineer the app_server protocol -- which I 
don't think we're really interested in, right?

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not understanding, and understanding is not wisdom.
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