hello all -
Christian Klippel wrote:
hi all,
Am Sonntag 29 Januar 2006 07:20 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
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Call it a gamepad, call it a joystick, or call it a "MISC". In any case, they should have used one button type consistently... I forgot to mention, these button types that I mentioned are actually the Linux interpretation of the USB HID spec, mostly its much better. I wonder what the actual "proper" USB HID values are for all the buttons...
skimming through the hid usage tables ( http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/Hut1_12.pdf ) i see that there are no MISC types anyway, only a reserverd range at the end of most usage tables.
this is generally the problem with hid names/usages: they thought of a lot of things, but it can never be complete since there are too many different (new?) devices.
if you look at the usage tables, what would you assign to these "hidden buttons" in david's device? i can see nothing that could fit....
I suspect that they gave it a different type in order to minimize the chance that it would trigger some actual game/application behavior - unless the software developer writing for it *really* knew that they wanted to use that "hidden button" functionality. cheers, -David
greets,
chris
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