Chimp is a simple input package (mice, tablets etc). Device support will be added when there is a need for it. The initial purpose of the package is to support drawing tablet input for a paint program yet to be written.
The package builds on top of (a forked) version of golang-evdev trying to provide a more user-friendly API. For example Wacom tablets are exposed as three independent devices by Linux and golang-evdev. This packages opens all three automatically and multiplexes all events from them into one event stream.
Use the godoc tool to view API documentation.
Only Linux is supported at the moment but the Linux device events are converted to another representation exported by this package in a platform independent manner.
There are two sample programs under cmd/ which is built in the standard Go
fashion.
Pick your poision:
go get github.com/johan-bolmsjo/chimp/cmd/chimp-dump-eventscd cmd/chimp-dump-events && go buildgo install ./...
Open first supported device and dump all events read from it.
List all found supported devices.
- Wacom Bamboo 16FG 6x8 (Linux)