On 2010-02-18, at 13:32, Oliver Schmidt wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Still trying to catch a glimpse of what you're doing in the driver... > >> The driver prevents the mouse/joystick from interfering by "blinding" >> the keyboard scanner while any button/switch is active. [...] Therefore, >> the scanner thinks that eight keys are being pushed at the same time. >> It doesn't know what to do about that condition; so, it does nothing. >> The driver lets the scanner see normally, again, when no buttons/ >> switches are active. > > Does that mean that a program is obligated to call into the mouse driver > frequently "enough" in order to successfully receive keystrokes? As I wrote about at the same time as you did - I guess the typical approach would be chaining it into IRQ call chain. This should be "frequently enough" I believe, but let's see if Greg confirms that my guesses are correct ;-) -- SD! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Thu Feb 18 13:42:02 2010
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