New approach to multitouch using DIDs and bitmasked events

Henrik Rydberg rydberg at bitmath.org
Fri Jul 2 02:59:17 PDT 2010


Peter Hutterer wrote:
[...]
> It'd be interesting to see how much work it is to have this API
> _replace_ the current API. Gives us more exposure and better testing.
> Note that I have some more API changes planned (not coded) that simplify
> the init process, they should all go in in one go.
> Another change that goes with that is the ability to easily split up
> devices into multiple X devices. This would make it easier to handle
> devices that have both MT events and normal events - they would simply
> end up being two devices, one normal one, one DID.
> 
> Henrik, Rafi - do you think this would work for the MT devices we've
> seen so far?



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