device-driver

Introduction I heard something about writing device drivers in Java (heard as in "with my ears", not from the internet) and was wondering... I always thought device drivers operated on an operating system level and thus must be written in the same language as the OS (thus mostly C I suppose) Questions Am I generally wrong with this assumption? (it seems so) How can a driver in an "alien" language be used in the OS? What are the requirements (from a programming language point of view) for a device driver anyway? Thanks for reading There are a couple of ways this can be done. First, code running

I want to develop a virtual webcam driver which from User mode I'll pass image to it and it will display as webcam output. I don't want to use DirectX filter and CSourceStream etc. Because they don't work on some programs which doesn't use DirectX for capturing webcam image. I have to write a kernel mode device driver so. Any ideas? I tried testcap from DDK samples, but it doesn't process image from user mode and doesn't get any input, just it displays 7 colors in webcam... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Thank you all! I tried code from here: http://tmhare.mvps.org/downloads.htm

I recently purchased a Magic Mouse. It is fantastic and full of potential. Unfortunately, it is seriously hindered by the software support. I want to fix that. I have done quite a lot of research and these are my findings regarding the event chain thus far: The Magic Mouse sends full multitouch events to the system. Multitouch events are processed in the MultitouchSupport.framework (Carbon) The events are interpreted in the framework and sent up to the system as normal events When you scroll with one finger it sends actual scroll wheel events. When you swipe with two fingers it sends a swipe