Virtual keyboard/mouse infrastructure ===================================== The virtual keyboard/mouse infrastructure (or VKM), is an API used by an application to inject keyboard and mouse events into the OS stack. The advantage of using a separate API for this is so that this can be handled in a cross-platform manner without having to sprinkle `#ifdef`'s throughout the program. Base API ======== The API is based around a context, which is an opaque pointer returned by `vkm_init`. All subsequent VKM calls will take in this pointer as the first argument, and return a signed 32-bit status code. Once done, `vkm_exit` will clean up any data structures and close any file descriptors that were opened as part of the VKM calls. VKM can also be configured through the `vkm_config` API call. Device handling =============== `vkm_new_device` is the API to use when creating a new VKM device. While VKM will support both keyboard and mouse events from a single device, there may be cases where the application needs to separate out keyboard and mouse events into different devices. The flags will enable keyboard and/or mouse support. Note that the supported event codes (on Linux) are fixed, and cannot be updated. The keyboard will emulate a standard US keyboard, while the mouse will emulate a standard 3 button mouse with a scroll wheel. Mouse handling ============== The mouse is handled as a single API call that passes in dx and dy to move the mouse in the relative X and Y axes. VKM will take care of internally translating the calls to the appropriate framework. This is handled in `vkm_mouse_move` The scroll wheel is handled through `vkm_mouse_scroll`. By default, the mouse motion uses standard scrolling, but high resolution scrolling may be enabled. The buttons are handled by `vkm_mouse_click`. The API will send the state, depending on the input (pressed or not) Keyboard handling ================= The keyboard is handled through a single call `vkm_keyboard_send`. This sends a single key event, with modifiers enabled (Ctrl, Shift, Alt, GUI).