Re: OT: Debian for infants
It's a little off-topic, but, the orginial request was made on this list and several people were interested in it. So, I created it. It's called babytouch and you can get it at http://members.accesstoledo.com/patterson. It's only available as source so you'll need C and SDL development stuff to compile it. Runs fullscreen! Scott I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be re-directed into the stdin for a shell script, as I want to start up by making the screen change colours depending on what key she presses. Thanks in anticipation
Re: Debian for infants.
Kieren Diment [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be re-directed into the stdin for a shell script, as I want to start up by making the screen change colours depending on what key she presses. there is a debian-junior project. you might want to contribute your program. -- Felix Natter
Re: Debian for infants.
Hi, On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Kieren Diment wrote: I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be re-directed into the stdin for a shell script, as I want to start up by making the screen change colours depending on what key she presses. Is it not easy to write a simple C program? stdin and stdout are the main parts. Just wait for a keypress, then with a case statement you can fill the screen with blank (coloured) characters? Maybe not the trivial way, though. Greetz, Sebastiaan Thanks in anticipation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian for infants.
Sounds like a really cool idea... perhaps you could assign events to key presses and mouse movements in your window manager, though redirecting to stdin is a more elegant idea. Could you make the program available when you've finished it? Cheers Tiarnan __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Debian for infants
XGrabKeyboard, according to its description, actively grabs control of the keyboard and generates FocusIn and FocusOut events. Further key events are reported only to the grabbing client... Might be some help Tiarnan __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Debian for infants
I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be re-directed into the stdin for a shell script, as I want to start up by making the screen change colours depending on what key she presses. Thanks in anticipation Good idea. Here's two approaches I can think of... 1. Use curses to read each character without hitting ENTER. Then, run a system(xsetroot color) to switch the root windows color. 2. A much better method would be to use SDL (http://www.libsdl.org). Start the program in fullscreen and key presses will change the screen color. It should run much faster with this method and that's all your little girl will see is one color on the monitor (no window manager stuff). You could even display images depending on the character input (ex: A=apple, ant) or play sounds. Of course what would you use for non-character keys (space bar, enter, brackets)?!? Hey, I really like this idea; so much, that I'm going to write it myself! Scott
Debian for infants.
I would like to write a little program or two for the entertainment of my 18 month old daughter as she really likes banging around on the keyboard (or sometimes playing with the trackball mouse. Can anybody tell me how to get keyboard input onto the root window to be re-directed into the stdin for a shell script, as I want to start up by making the screen change colours depending on what key she presses. Thanks in anticipation
