Re: [E-devel] [Patch] Evas touch event patch.

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:03:32 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
<ra...@ra...> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:50:49 +1000 David Seikel <on...@gm...>
> said:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:37:34 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> > <ra...@ra...> wrote:
> > 
> > > we just
> > > have 2 kinds of down/move/up events (mouse and multi) where mouse
> > > is the core pointer or first touch and multi is all the extras
> > > (that as anon-touch app you don't need to look at).
> > 
> > Hmmm, how does things like graphics tablets fit into that?
> 
> i assume you mean wacom? they fit in. they are just a "mouse" with
> position - you can fake it as mouse button 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
> 10, 1 or whatever or give a special device handle (that currently we
> have no api to query). multi events also contain pressure, angle,
> radius, device id too. device id 0 is a special reserved id meaning
> "also core pointer". right now nothing produces both mouse and multi
> events for core pointer, just one or the other.

Yes, I did mean wacom style graphics tablets.  I also was more
wondering about it configured to not be a core pointer.  We could have
two devices (mouse and tablet stylus), both of which could be being used
at once.

Just wondering.

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