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+NIC 9929 Ira Cotton
+NWG/RFC #336 Mitre
+Level 0 Graphic Input Protocol 5 May 1972
+
+ Level 0 Graphic Input Protocol
+
+ At its meeting on April 16-18 the network Graphics working
+ group began to consider the definition of levels of protocol
+ for graphic Input Protocol. The following describes the
+ Level 0 graphics input protocol.
+
+ The philosophy guiding the establishment of this protocol is
+ the same as suggested in RFC #178, "Network Graphic Attention
+ Handling." Briefly, all input will be described by type,
+ origin, and length, followed by the actual data.
+
+ Only two types of input are defined at Level 0: text and
+ simple position.
+
+ Text Input
+
+ Text input will be conveyed in the following format:
+
+ TEXTIN : DEVICE : COUNT: Text String
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+ TEXTIN is a protocol code indicating the nature of this
+ input string. For the present this code is defined to
+ be 1.
+
+ DEVICE is a code indicating the device from which the
+ input originated. The following codes are presently
+ defined:
+
+ 0 - unspecified device
+ 1 - primary keyboard
+ 2 - tablet
+ 3 - mouse
+ 4 - joystick
+ 5 - lightpen
+ 6 - cursor
+ 7 - keyset
+ 8 - mouse & keyset
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+NIC 9929
+NWG/RFC# 336
+Level 0 Graphic Input Protocol
+
+ Count is an integer number indicating the number of
+ characters (bytes) which follow.
+
+ Text String is a string of "Count" bytes of characters
+ in network ASCII.
+
+ Position Input
+
+ Simple position data will be conveyed in the
+ following format:
+
+ POSIT : DEVICE : COUNT : x : y
+
+ POSIT is a protocol code indicating that this string
+ contains position data. For the present this code is
+ defined to be 2.
+
+ DEVICE is a code indicating the input device on which
+ this data was generated. The codes are as defined
+ above.
+
+ COUNT is an integer number indicating the number of
+ bytes of data which follow. This includes data for
+ both x and y coordinates. Thus, the number of bytes of
+ x coordinate data is COUNT divided by 2. At level 0,
+ COUNT should always be 4, since at this level all
+ coordinates are expressed in 2 bytes of data.
+
+ x and y coordinate data are represented as signed
+ fractions in the same fashion that position data is
+ represented in the Level 0 graphic output protocol.
+
+ It should be emphasized that input data from a level 0
+ graphics user which is not in a format described above should
+ be sent on a different link than the graphics input link.
+ This may be desirable for certain applications to avoid the
+ overhead of the protocol.
+
+ [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
+ [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ]
+ [ direction of Alex McKenzie. 12/96 ]
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