Playing with touch screen events
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
raster at rasterman.com
Tue Oct 21 07:05:05 CEST 2008
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:55:48 +0100 Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> babbled:
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> |> http://svn.openmoko.org/developers/tick/touchtest/touch_test.py
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> | IIUC this is listening to X events, but this has already been filtered
> | through a driver that tries to reduce jitter and stuff. What kind of
> | info does the driver give? Could it support multiple touches
> | (e.g. pinch, two-finger scroll, ...)?
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> The only extra thing you can squeeze out of it is the area of the
> contact to the touchscreen, so you can tell between stylus, fingernail,
> thumb. I also made a patch for this, but I was unable to get the
> results normalized across the whole touchscreen surface. It could tell
> very well though in any given area about the contact size.
do you have any raw data on your results? how was the "size" reported (radius
from touch point?)
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