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USB Hotplugging app from 2003 |
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Written by Karl vom Dorff
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Saturday, 29 March 2008 |
Sometimes it's quite cool to see how well Haiku works with its binary compatibility. I recently decided to try USB Deskbar View from the year 2003 on Haiku. Amazingly, it works with Haiku's stack (USB Commander doesn't). What a great little application, just goes to show you there are some real gems out there still despite their age!
When you plug in a USB device, it shows you a little checkmark in Haiku's taskbar, when you unplug it, it shows an x. Not only that, it also shows you speciic information about the device. USB devices are extremely common these days, I know myself, I don't have enough USB ports on my machines for the number of USB devices I own. It's always nice to get some kind of feedback from your system when you
plug in a device, just so you know it's actually working. To me, it would seem that an application like this should deserve a pemanent place in the taskbar (or in the desktop applets folder) and at a cost of 100kb, I think something like this would be a very worthy addition to Haiku (sources are included in the package)...
Now I ponder, if someone actually wrote a driver for my Isight, would it work in CodyCam? hehe -see the screenshot below. By the way, using the Superpack under Vmware would be a great way to test out your USB devices under Haiku (and add them to our database of course) if you can't get Haiku working under actual hardware.
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