Hello, I have an usb barcode reader that X recognize as a keyboard. But I want to create an application which work on the output from this barcode.
With the actual solution, I need my apps and a specific entry field to have the focus, this is not an interesting solution because the event trigered by the input from the barcode does not more user actions, so the user can be on his webnavigator, want to scan a barcode without leaving his navigator, let the computer react to the event, and continue his navigation. Some barcode reader allow to use 'serial emulation', which can solve my problem (I connect my apps to the serial port and read data without bothering the user). Unfortunately, my device does not have this option. So, my question is, do you know a way (between hal, evdev, X) or an other (kernel, but if it the case, sorry for asking here) to transform an 'usb keyboard' to something like a file device that I can read 'easily' from an application. Thank everybody -- Guillaume _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg