[Oberon] USB support & digital camera, mouse buttons

[muller at inf.ethz.ch]

peter_easthope at gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca wrote:
> Small digital cameras are becoming
> affordable and most include a USB
> cable.  USB technology is unfamiliar
> to me.  Can anyone mention whether 
> Oberon or Bluebottle can communicate
> with a camera thru USB.

Basic USB support was implemented for Native Oberon by Christian 
Plattner in a semester project: http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/usb.html
Thomas Frey ported the USB modules to Bluebottle.

USB is a very comprehensive standard, and not all devices are
automatically supported.  Many devices also use proprietary
protocols on top of the basic USB link layer.

If you are lucky, your camera acts as a standard USB storage device,
that will be recognized by the UsbStorage module.  See Usb.Tool 
for more information.

I use an Asian no-name compactflash/smartmedia USB drive to transfer
my pictures.  Unfortunately UsbStorage doesn't currntly recognize 
this device.

-- Pieter

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Pieter Muller, Computer Systems Institute, ETH Zurich / MCT Lab, Zurich
Native Oberon OS: http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/