Multitouch in X - Pointer emulation question ?

[Patrice B]

Thanks, I've created a ticket :
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70790

Regards.

       Patrice


2013/10/23 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 07:27:45AM +0200, Patrice B wrote:
> > Ok. Thanks a lot for this answer !
> >
> >  Another question about emulated pointer events, I've noticed that  with
> > emulated button press, of course if my app does not register for XI 2.2,
> > the .xbutton.subwindow field of the XEvent is always set to zero. If this
> > button press comes from the mouse, this field is correctly set. Is it a
> > bug, a normal behaviour, or is there again something wrong with my apps ?
>
> sounds like bug, in general emulated events should have the same data as
> normal mouse events.
>
> Cheers,
>    Peter
>
> > 2013/10/23 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> >
> > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:55:24AM +0200, Patrice B wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > >   I'm working on a kernel evdev driver that provides MT events. This
> > > device
> > > > is correctly detected by  evdev Xorg driver and I'm able to see MT
> events
> > > > using "xinput text-xi2". I wrote also a small program based on xi2
> which
> > > > makes two rectangles follow my fingers on the screen and it works.
> > > >
> > > >   What is a bit "fuzzy" for me is how programs that don't handle XI2
> > > should
> > > > behave with MT driver. I read
> > > >
> http://who-t.blogspot.fr/2011/12/multitouch-in-x-pointer-emulation.html,
> > > > and I thought common application such as xev should received emulated
> > > > classic X events. They don't receive anything in my case. Should
> they ?
> > > > Does something about this emulation needs to be done in kernel
> driver ?
> > >
> > > the server decides which client gets MT and which one gets an emulated
> > > pointer on a per-client basis. your test program that registers for XI
> 2.2
> > > won't see pointer emulation, but xev still should. Last I checked, this
> > > worked here.
> > >
> > > either way, there's nothing you need to do in the kernel driver. if you
> > > speak the MT protocol B, the rest should be handled automatically.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >    Peter
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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