I am looking to write a bit of perl that I can run in the background to interface with a GPI trigger for broadcast television gear.
Essentially, I need a script that will sit and listen for a mouse click from /dev/ttyS0 and then act appropriately.

I don't need to listen for any other mouse data or generate any kind of GUI stuff, just detect the click.

As a bonus, if the mouse button is held down, it would be nice to be able to detect that it's being held down, and also detect when the button is released.

I've seen a fair number of pointers to things like Perl/tk in reference to mouse detection within a GUI framework, but I am hoping there may be a bare-bones way to do it with less overhead. I've also looked at Device::SerialPort but I didn't see anything that I thought I could apply to listening for a mouse.

Any clever thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Any dull thoughts would be welcome, too.

In reply to Detecting Mouse Clicks (GPI Trigger) by Captain

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