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About the Input DDK

This chapter includes:

What you'll find in this guide

In this preface, you'll find Building DDKs. This document provides information about changes to installing DDKs.

The following table may help you find information quickly:

If you want to: Go to:
Get an overview of input modules and how they're linked Overview
Use a non-Photon interface to the system Overview
Understand the source file organization for devi-* Overview
Begin writing your own input driver Writing an Input Device Driver
Learn about the data formats of protocol modules Writing an Input Device Driver
Write a driver for a keyboard device Writing an Input Device Driver
Write a driver for a touchscreen Writing an Input Device Driver
Write a driver for a mouse Writing an Input Device Driver
Combine device and protocol functionality in a single driver Writing an Input Device Driver
Debug your driver Testing and Debugging Your Driver
Look up a module function Module Functions
Look up an interface function in the Input API API Reference

Building DDKs

You can compile the DDK from the IDE or the command line.

Typographical conventions

Throughout this manual, we use certain typographical conventions to distinguish technical terms. In general, the conventions we use conform to those found in IEEE POSIX publications. The following table summarizes our conventions:

Reference Example
Code examples if( stream == NULL )
Command options -lR
Commands make
Environment variables PATH
File and pathnames /dev/null
Function names exit()
Keyboard chords Ctrl-Alt-Delete
Keyboard input something you type
Keyboard keys Enter
Program output login:
Programming constants NULL
Programming data types unsigned short
Programming literals 0xFF, "message string"
Variable names stdin
User-interface components Cancel

We use an arrow (→) in directions for accessing menu items, like this:

You'll find the Other... menu item under Perspective-->Show View.

We use notes, cautions, and warnings to highlight important messages:


Note: Notes point out something important or useful.


Caution: Cautions tell you about commands or procedures that may have unwanted or undesirable side effects.


WARNING: Warnings tell you about commands or procedures that could be dangerous to your files, your hardware, or even yourself.

Note to Windows users

In our documentation, we use a forward slash (/) as a delimiter in all pathnames, including those pointing to Windows files.

We also generally follow POSIX/UNIX filesystem conventions.

Navigation buttons

At the top and bottom of our HTML docs, you'll see some or all of these buttons:

Use this button: To move:
Previous To the previous part of the document.
Contents “Up” in the document:
  • In a prose book, this typically takes you to About This Guide.
  • In a reference book, it takes you to the listing of items that start with a given letter. For example, if you're looking at the docs for abs(), this button takes you to the listing of the functions that start with A.
Keyword index To the keyword index.
Next To the next part of the document.

Technical support

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