Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Some coordination

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 .------[ Free The Cube wrote (Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:44:20PM +0100) ]------
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 |  >Anyway, the joystick->mouse converter sounds very interesting, but a 
 |  >kernel driver would be more useful, I think. Adding code for 
 |  >joystick->keyboard conversion should not be hard then.
 |  OK, i will try to put the "joystick->mouse converter" into kernel-space :) !
 |  For the joystick->keyboard conversion, i don't know how to make it 
 |  possible, someone has got an idea ???

This may be something no one wants to deal with, but the joystick has enough buttons to do a simple two-handed chording keyboard.  You can press up to 5 buttons at a time so you'd get 36 characters.Or you could use the directions as a shift type thing and get 4x (or even 8x) 15.

Anyway, it's just an idea and no one really likes learning how to type on those things anyway, but for lack of another input device it would work...

-s