My GSoC proposition: Raw Input

Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Wed Apr 4 21:10:49 CDT 2012


On 04/04/2012 12:34 PM, Henri Verbeet wrote:
> On 4 April 2012 20:21, Eryk Wieliczko<ewdevel at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I've been thinking about joining GSoC as a student this year. As an
>> idea I propose Raw Input, and I seek your advise. Is this topic good,
>> what are possible catches, etc.
>> I think that it might be possible to finally do a decent
>> implementation, that would (besides mouse and keyboard) also support
>> joysticks and possibly some other input devices - tablets and multiple
>> mice and keyboards.
>> What do you think about this topic?
>>
> My impression of Raw Input is that it's the kind of thing that's
> fairly hard even for someone already familiar with all the areas of
> Wine involved. That probably makes it unsuitable for GSoC, although I
> suppose there are no hard rules for what is or isn't suitable.

It's not really that hard. The hard part is getting design accepted by AJ. 
Raw Input has to heavily interact with wine server. And any changes there 
are hard to get right and eventually accepted.

So, if you have an idea of how you want to do it. And this idea is good 
enough to go in - that's fine. But be ready to completely redesign & re-code 
some pieces if design won't be accepted.

Vitaliy.




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