Re: lirc as an input device?

[Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>]

Hi!

> I am developing an application using gtk+ 2.0 on a headless machine.
> Well in actuallity it has a TV as it's output device.  However it does
> not have a keyboard or (will not have a) mouse.  It does have an IR
> controller via LIRC (www.lirc.org) though.
> 
> I have written my application so far to use g_io_add_watch() to get
> input events from the IR (via LIRC).  However this does not scale very
> well in the way I have written it because in my input handler (the one
> registered with g_io_add_watch()) I read the key pressed from LIRC and
> then have to do something different depending on what is happening in
> the app when the key is pressed.  This worked fine when my app was a
> single CLIST (inside containers etc.), but now it is expanding to
> multiple different widgets that will be shown at different times.
> 
> Keeping track of what widget is active and the different ways to map
> IR input dependign on the widget is just getting hairy.
> 
> I am looking for suggestions on a better way to handle this.  Is it
> appropriate to write a gdk input module for LIRC?  Is it more
> appropriate (or even more simple) to write a generic routine in my
> application (that I would register with g_io_add_watch()) that maps
> keys on my IR (fortunately it has navigation type keys like up, down,
> left, right, select, etc.) to generic gtk/gdk input events?  For
> instance, if LIRC reports that the "right" key was pressed, generate a
> "right arrow" key event for whatever widget is active, just as if I
> used the right arrow key on a keyboard.
> 
> The question then becomes, being a newbie at gtk/gdk programming, how
> would I go about turning LIRC input events into gtk/gdk generic
> events, simulating the keyboard's input events?

What about aadding lirc support into X server, instead?
								Pavel
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