[summary: I'd like to know how big a job it would be to create a
very basic driver for Mac OS X and the Optimus Mini Three Keyboard,
which only has Windows software so far.]
>On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Rick Mann wrote:
>Is it not a HID device?
Here's were I start to learn stuff, and reveal how little I know so
far. I found nothing in the documentation or Windows software
provided for the Optimus Mini Three keyboard (http://
www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-mini/downloads/) than mentioned
HID.
When I plug the keyboard into my Macintosh, it shows up in the System
Profiler with the following details:
USB-Serial Controller:
Version: 3.00
Bus Power (mA): 500
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
Product ID: 0x2303
Vendor ID: 0x067b
Looking up that Vendor and Product ID, I see various mentions of "USB
to serial DB-9" and "USB-to-Serial Bridge."
The software page mentioned above also includes some samples for
developing plug-ins for Windows. I read down into them as far as I
could today, and they seem to be using file I/O to talk to the
keyboard (CreateFile, ReadFile, WriteFile). For example, the call to
(their internal class) CPort::Open includes the following:
I've also asked the vendor if they have a projected date for Mac OS X
software.
sb
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