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System Specific Notes
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Linux:
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The linux touch system is currently based off event streams, and proc/bus/devices. The active user must be given permissions to read /dev/input/TOUCHDEVICE, where TOUCHDEVICE is the event stream for your device. Currently only Wacom tablets are supported. If you have an unsupported tablet contact me at jim.tla+sdl_touch@gmail.com and I will help you get support for it.
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Mac:
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The Mac and Iphone API's are pretty. If your touch device supports them then you'll be fine. If it doesn't, then there isn't much we can do.
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iPhone:
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Works out of box.
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Windows:
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Unfortunately there is no windows support as of yet. Support for Windows 7 is planned, but we currently have no way to test. If you have a Windows 7 WM_TOUCH supported device, and are willing to help test please contact me at jim.tla+sdl_touch@gmail.com
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Events
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SDL_FINGERDOWN:
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Sent when a finger (or stylus) is placed on a touch device.
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Fields:
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event.tfinger.touchId - the Id of the touch device.
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event.tfinger.fingerId - the Id of the finger which just went down.
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event.tfinger.x - the x coordinate of the touch (0..touch.xres)
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event.tfinger.y - the y coordinate of the touch (0..touch.yres)
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event.tfinger.pressure - the pressure of the touch (0..touch.pressureres)
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SDL_FINGERMOTION:
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Sent when a finger (or stylus) is moved on the touch device.
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Fields:
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Same as FINGERDOWN but with additional:
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event.tfginer.dx - change in x coordinate during this motion event.
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event.tfginer.dy - change in y coordinate during this motion event.
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SDL_FINGERMOTION:
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Sent when a finger (or stylus) is lifted from the touch device.
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Fields:
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Same as FINGERDOWN.
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Functions
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SDL provides the ability to access the underlying Touch and Finger structures.
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These structures should _never_ be modified.
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The following functions are included from SDL_Touch.h
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To get a SDL_Touch device call SDL_GetTouch(touchId).
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This returns an SDL_Touch*.
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IMPORTANT: If the touch has been removed, or there is no touch with the given ID, SDL_GetTouch will return null. Be sure to check for this!
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An SDL_Touch has the following fields:
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>xres,yres,pressures:
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The resolution at which x,y, and pressure values are reported. Currently these will always be equal to 2^15, but this may not always be the case.
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>pressure_max, pressure_min, x_max, x_min, y_max, y_min
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Which give, respectively, the maximum and minumum values that the touch digitizer can return for pressure, x coordiniate, and y coordinate AS REPORTED BY THE OPERATING SYSTEM.
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On Mac/iPhone systems _max will always be 0, and _min will always be 1.
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>native_xres,native_yres,native_pressureres:
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The native resolution of the touch device AS REPORTED BY THE OPERATING SYSTEM.
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On Mac/iPhone systems these will always be 1.
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>num_fingers:
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The number of fingers currently down on the device.
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>fingers:
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An array of pointers to the fingers which are on the device.
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The most common reason to access a touch device is to normalize inputs. This would be accomplished by code like the following:
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SDL_Touch* inTouch = SDL_GetTouch(event.tfinger.touchId);
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if(inTouch == NULL) continue; //The touch has been removed
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float x = ((float)event.tfinger.x)/inTouch->xres;
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float y = ((float)event.tfinger.y)/inTouch->yres;
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To get an SDL_Finger, call SDL_GetFinger(touch,fingerId), where touch is a pointer to an SDL_Touch device, and fingerId is the id of the requested finger.
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This returns an SDL_Finger*, or null if the finger does not exist, or has been removed.
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An SDL_Finger is guaranteed to be persistent for the duration of a touch, but it will be de-allocated as soon as the finger is removed. This occurs when the SDL_FINGERUP event is _added_ to the event queue, and thus _before_ the FINGERUP event is polled.
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As a result, be very careful to check for null return values.
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An SDL_Finger has the following fields:
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>x,y,pressure:
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The current coordinates of the touch.
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>xdelta,ydelta:
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The change in position resulting from the last finger motion.
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>last_x, last_y, last_pressure:
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The previous coordinates of the touch.
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Notes
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For a complete example see test/testgesture.c
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Please direct questions/comments to:
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jim.tla+sdl_touch@gmail.com
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