Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!m2c!ulowell!page From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Finishing up YAIP (Yet Another Input Handler), Need info. Message-ID: <7002@swan.ulowell.edu> Date: 11 May 88 12:16:21 GMT References: <8805090351.AA04051@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <5918@well.UUCP> <2087@amiga.UUCP> Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 35 Since nobody's mentioned it yet, I'll put in a plug for Commodities Exchange. The version I have (v0.3) sits in front of Intuition in the input food chain and allows Message Brokers to pass input events to applications that have requested them. On the distribution disk are such gems as a program to strip the CAPSLOCK bit from all input, and a DMouse-like application. Future (current?) versions can also sit behind Intuition. I mention it because at this point we have 107 different applications vying for input events, and nobody to manage it. I know of at least three 'hotkey' programs that have L.ALT-ESC hardwired in, for example. I type the 'F10' key in ConMan to throw window-to-back ... oops, I'm in WACK, so I get a 'symbols' listing. Commodities Exchange is the AREXX of input events. I wish everybody had it, or that it would be in WB1.3. Rumors are that it will be in WB1.4 ... maybe too late. It was written by Mr. Event Handler himself, Jim Mackraz. I don't know the redistribution deal with Commodities Exchange. As an aside, many of these input event enhancers could possibly be made part of Intuition in "a future release." jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) wrote: >I put an example on the DevCon disks of an input stealer that uses sprite 0 Although I announced availability of this via FTP, there were some concerns about its redistribution, and after talking to Carolyn and JimM, I decided to remove it. (if you went looking for the CLIP: handler -- it had some problems, so I pulled it as well). ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page