On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 08:57 +0200, David Bourgeois wrote: > On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:55:23 +0200, martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are button presses (like wing or head or RC) always passed on by the > > firmware or can they be 'swallowed'? > > > > I am thinking of adding a function to the firmware so that I can tap the > > head button to mute sound.. but I am not sure if the button event will > > still > > be propagated to the daemon, overloading the button. Maybe I could just > > do > > everything on the pc.. but I would like to play with the firmware a > > little > > more. > > That depends on what you want to handle locally and from the computer. I > would say that muting the sound requires to have sound sent from the > computer so I would find it more logical to have the computer get the head > button event and decide to do the mute (by siftware or send the mute > command). But in case you just use the usb audio device and don't have the > daemon running, that makes sense to have it locally by firmware. You might also want to mute locally stored sounds which Tux will play regardless of a host computer. So perhaps a mute button is not as simple as it appears. > > In such a case, I think the standalone behavior proposal I already > explained a bit would be a good solution. You could associate the mute > function to the head button event in the eeprom (when this will be > possible to do from the api in the near future) and easily enable/disable > that event from the computer. When disabled,the status of the button would > still be sent to the computer but the sequence won't be played. So even if > your applications need to use the head button at a certain point, they > could still disable the standalone head button event momentarily. Though > the daemon/api should handle that instead of the application. It probably is an application level behaviour to associate buttons and behaviours. > //m
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