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Read Linux mouse(s) in node.js
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/** | |
* Read Linux mouse(s) in node.js | |
* Author: Marc Loehe ([email protected]) | |
* | |
* Adapted from Tim Caswell's nice solution to read a linux joystick | |
* http://nodebits.org/linux-joystick | |
* https://github.com/nodebits/linux-joystick | |
*/ | |
var fs = require('fs'), | |
EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter; | |
/** | |
* Parse PS/2 mouse protocol | |
* According to http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2mouse/ | |
*/ | |
function parse(mouse, buffer) { | |
var event = { | |
leftBtn: (buffer[0] & 1 ) > 0, // Bit 0 | |
rightBtn: (buffer[0] & 2 ) > 0, // Bit 1 | |
middleBtn: (buffer[0] & 4 ) > 0, // Bit 2 | |
xSign: (buffer[0] & 16 ) > 0, // Bit 4 | |
ySign: (buffer[0] & 32 ) > 0, // Bit 5 | |
xOverflow: (buffer[0] & 64 ) > 0, // Bit 6 | |
yOverflow: (buffer[0] & 128) > 0, // Bit 7 | |
xDelta: buffer.readInt8(1), // Byte 2 as signed int | |
yDelta: buffer.readInt8(2) // Byte 3 as signed int | |
}; | |
if (event.leftBtn || event.rightBtn || event.middleBtn) { | |
event.type = 'button'; | |
} else { | |
event.type = 'moved'; | |
} | |
return event; | |
} | |
function Mouse(mouseid) { | |
this.wrap('onOpen'); | |
this.wrap('onRead'); | |
this.dev = typeof(mouseid) === 'number' ? 'mouse' + mouseid : 'mice'; | |
this.buf = new Buffer(3); | |
fs.open('/dev/input/' + this.dev, 'r', this.onOpen); | |
} | |
Mouse.prototype = Object.create(EventEmitter.prototype, { | |
constructor: {value: Mouse} | |
}); | |
Mouse.prototype.wrap = function(name) { | |
var self = this; | |
var fn = this[name]; | |
this[name] = function (err) { | |
if (err) return self.emit('error', err); | |
return fn.apply(self, Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1)); | |
}; | |
}; | |
Mouse.prototype.onOpen = function(fd) { | |
this.fd = fd; | |
this.startRead(); | |
}; | |
Mouse.prototype.startRead = function() { | |
fs.read(this.fd, this.buf, 0, 3, null, this.onRead); | |
}; | |
Mouse.prototype.onRead = function(bytesRead) { | |
var event = parse(this, this.buf); | |
event.dev = this.dev; | |
this.emit(event.type, event); | |
if (this.fd) this.startRead(); | |
}; | |
Mouse.prototype.close = function(callback) { | |
fs.close(this.fd, (function(){console.log(this);})); | |
this.fd = undefined; | |
} | |
/**************** | |
* Sample Usage * | |
****************/ | |
// read all mouse events from /dev/input/mice | |
var mouse = new Mouse(); | |
mouse.on('button', console.log); | |
mouse.on('moved', console.log); | |
// to read only a specific mouse by id (e.g. /dev/input/mouse0) use | |
// var mouse0 = newMouse(0); | |
// to close mouse | |
// mouse.close(); | |
// mouse = undefined; |
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