[Bug 218] New: Distinguish stylus from finger via tslib

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           Summary: Distinguish stylus from finger via tslib
           Product: OpenMoko
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Neo1973
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: kernel
        AssignedTo: laforge at openmoko.org
        ReportedBy: mickey at vanille-media.de


Nokia apparantly does it by measuring pressure. See the following snippet from
Maemo's tslib:

      /* this ... is ugly.
         * basically, we need two things to support thumb cleanly:
         *  - pressure filtering.  because it's pressure-based, often we get
         *    the following sequence: pen down, thumb down, thumb up, pen down,
         *    thumb up.  so we need to filter the first n events to see whether
         *    we have a thumb event coming, and discard the first pen events if
         *    so.  we also need to check if we're trying to post a pen down
         *    after a thumb down (without an intervening thumb up, and discard
         *    it if so).
         *  - accuracy filtering.  the first n events just aren't going to be
         *    accurate.  so we need to discard them, which negates the call for
         *    keeping the initial thumb events above.
         *
         * in addition to this, we need general stability filtering, so we take
         * a three-sample filtering, and discard the result if the total movement
         * is less than 4px in either direction.
         *
         * i'm really, really sorry. -daniels
         */
        if (flags && private->holdEvents) {
            /* Drop pen events after a thumb stream. */
            if ((flags & KD_BUTTON_1) && (private->lastFlags & KD_BUTTON_8))
                discard = 1;
 
            /* Drop all our queued events if we have a thumb event in a
             * pen stream. */
            if ((flags & KD_BUTTON_8) && (private->lastFlags & KD_BUTTON_1))
                private->numHeldEvents = 0;
 
            /* Run the queue if we're full; drop it on the floor if the total
             * four-sample difference is less than 4px in both directions. */
            if (private->numHeldEvents >= TSLIB_QUEUE_SIZE) {
                if (abs(private->lastx - LAST_EVENT.x) < 4 &&
                    abs(private->lasty - LAST_EVENT.y) < 4 &&
                    private->lastFlags) {
                    discard = 1;
                    private->numHeldEvents = 0;
                }
                else {
                    TsRunQueue(pi);
                }
            }



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