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Rich:
Hi jazzbiker

--- Quote from: jazzbiker on January 31, 2021, 10:44:05 AM --- ... Voila! all birds are trapped in our cages.
--- End quote ---

Here's an explanation of how the settings work that may prove useful.

These are the events listed on one of my machines:

--- Code: ---tc@E310:~/C_Programs/AutoCursor$ sudo ./AutoCursor -e
Event#  Input device name
0:      "Power Button"
1:      "Power Button"
2:      "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
3:      "PC Speaker"
4:      "DELL DELL USB Keyboard"
5:      "HDA Intel Mic"
6:      "HDA Intel Line"
7:      "HDA Intel Line Out"
8:      "HDA Intel Front Headphone"
tc@E310:~/C_Programs/AutoCursor$
--- End code ---

This is the settings file from that machine:

--- Code: ---tc@E310:~/C_Programs/AutoCursor$ cat cursor.conf
s:"Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
h:"DELL DELL USB Keyboard"
tc@E310:~/C_Programs/AutoCursor$
--- End code ---

The program does a case sensitive substring search for the  settings string  in the  events string.
Any copy and paste section of the event string will work. In other words, this would work too:

--- Code: ---s:"Mouse"
h:"Keyboard"
--- End code ---

If all of your machines report  Mouse  and  Keyboard , That is all you would need. If one of your machines reports
keyboard , you could do this:

--- Code: ---s:"Mouse"
h:"Keyboard"
h:"keyboard"
--- End code ---

If I did this:

--- Code: ---h:"HDA"
--- End code ---
My cursor would disappear anytime one of those 4 audio devices generated an event.

Summary:
You only need enough of the string to uniquely identify the event of interest.
You need the quotation marks.


--- Quote from: jazzbiker on January 31, 2021, 11:54:53 AM --- ...  on one particular machine only devices actually present will be enqued. ...
--- End quote ---
Correct.

jazzbiker:
Hi, Rich!

Seems, that trick with substrings doesn't works.

--- Code: ---tc@box:/tmp$ sudo AutoCursor -e
Event#  Input device name
0:      "Lid Switch"
1:      "Sleep Button"
2:      "Power Button"
3:      "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
4:      "YSPRINGTECH USB OPTICAL MOUSE"
5:      "PC Speaker"
6:      "Video Bus"
7:      "HDA Intel MID Mic"
8:      "HDA Intel MID Headphone"

--- End code ---

This config works:

--- Code: ---tc@box:/tmp$ cat ~/.config/autocursor.conf
h:"AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
s:"YSPRINGTECH USB OPTICAL MOUSE"

--- End code ---

while this don't:

--- Code: ---tc@box:/tmp$ cat ~/.config/autocursor.conf.test
h:"keyboard"
s:"MOUSE"

--- End code ---

You really use

--- Code: ---       {       // Only return entries starting with EVENTstr.
                if(strncmp(EVENTstr, entity->d_name, EVENTstrlen) == 0)

--- End code ---
in  BuildEventlist(void).

It's absolutely ok to use full names, as they are written by AutoCursor.

Rich:
Hi jazzbiker

--- Quote from: jazzbiker on January 31, 2021, 12:52:00 PM ---Seems, that trick with substrings doesn't works. ...
--- End quote ---
You are correct. I use the quote mark for locating the description but neglected to omit it as a search term. Updated
extensions posted to TC10 x86 and x86_64. It now works as described in reply #10. Please update your copy.


--- Quote --- ... You really use

--- Code: ---       {       // Only return entries starting with EVENTstr.
                if(strncmp(EVENTstr, entity->d_name, EVENTstrlen) == 0)

--- End code ---
in  BuildEventlist(void). ...
--- End quote ---
That section of code searches  /dev/input/  for  event*.  We don't care about other entries (mice. mouse0, etc.).
The search for a match is done in  LoadSettings(char *fullname, int *fdmax)


--- Quote --- ... It's absolutely ok to use full names, as they are written by AutoCursor.
--- End quote ---
Yes, it is. But I also wanted to allow for a little more flexibility if required.

jazzbiker:
Hi, Rich!

Yes, works great!

--- Code: ---tc@box:~$ cat ~/.autocursor.conf
h:"keyboard"
h:"Keyboard"
h:"KEYBOARD"
s:"mouse"
s:"Mouse"
s:"MOUSE"

--- End code ---

Thanks for update!

Rich:
Hi jazzbiker
Here's the output from an ASUS netbook with touchscreen, touchpad, and Bluetooth keyboard. In addidtion, there is a USB
mouse and keyboard plugged in:

--- Code: ---Event# Input device name
0: "Lid Switch"
1: "Sleep Button"
2: "PC Speaker"
3: "SYNA7508:00 06CB:11E5 Pen"
4: "SYNA7508:00 06CB:11E5"
5: "Asus WMI hotkeys"
6: "PixArt HP USB Optical Mouse"
7: "Chicony HP Elite USB Keyboard"
8: "Chicony HP Elite USB Keyboard System Control"
9: "Chicony HP Elite USB Keyboard Consumer Control"
10: "Video Bus"
11: "bytcr-rt5640 Headset"
12: "Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio HDMI/DP,pcm=0"
13: "Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio HDMI/DP,pcm=1"
14: "Broadcom Bluetooth Wireless  Keyboard                        "
15: "Broadcom Bluetooth Wireless  Keyboard                        "
16: "Broadcom Bluetooth Wireless  Keyboard                        "
17: "Asus TouchPad"
18: "Broadcom Bluetooth Wireless  Keyboard                        "
19: "Broadcom Bluetooth Wireless  Keyboard                        "
--- End code ---

This hides for the touchscreen and 2 keyboards, and shows for the mouse and touchpad:

--- Code: ---sudo ./AutoCursor -s6 -h4 -s17 -h14 -h7
--- End code ---

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