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1Touch
2===========================================================================
3System Specific Notes
4===========================================================================
5Linux:
6The 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.
7
8Mac:
9The Mac and iPhone APIs 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.
10
11iPhone:
12Works out of box.
13
14Windows:
15Unfortunately 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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17
18Events
19===========================================================================
20SDL_EVENT_FINGER_DOWN:
21Sent when a finger (or stylus) is placed on a touch device.
22Fields:
23* event.tfinger.touchId - the Id of the touch device.
24* event.tfinger.fingerId - the Id of the finger which just went down.
25* event.tfinger.x - the x coordinate of the touch (0..1)
26* event.tfinger.y - the y coordinate of the touch (0..1)
27* event.tfinger.pressure - the pressure of the touch (0..1)
28
29SDL_EVENT_FINGER_MOTION:
30Sent when a finger (or stylus) is moved on the touch device.
31Fields:
32Same as SDL_EVENT_FINGER_DOWN but with additional:
33* event.tfinger.dx - change in x coordinate during this motion event.
34* event.tfinger.dy - change in y coordinate during this motion event.
35
36SDL_EVENT_FINGER_UP:
37Sent when a finger (or stylus) is lifted from the touch device.
38Fields:
39Same as SDL_EVENT_FINGER_DOWN.
40
41
42Functions
43===========================================================================
44SDL provides the ability to access the underlying SDL_Finger structures.
45These structures should _never_ be modified.
46
47The following functions are included from SDL_touch.h
48
49Devices are tracked by instance ID, of type SDL_TouchID.
50
51To get a list of available device SDL_TouchID values, call SDL_GetTouchDevices().
52This returns an array of device IDs, terminated by a zero ID. Optionally, you can
53get a count of IDs by passing a non-NULL int* to SDL_GetTouchDevices() if you'd
54rather not iterate the whole array to get this number.
55
56A SDL_TouchID may be used to get pointers to SDL_Finger.
57
58SDL_GetNumTouchFingers(touchID) may be used to get the number of fingers currently down on the device.
59
60The most common reason to access SDL_Finger is to query the fingers outside the event. In most cases accessing the fingers is using the event. This would be accomplished by code like the following:
61
62 float x = event.tfinger.x;
63 float y = event.tfinger.y;
64
65
66
67To get a SDL_Finger, call SDL_GetTouchFinger(SDL_TouchID touchID, int index), where touchID is a SDL_TouchID, and index is the requested finger.
68This returns a SDL_Finger *, or NULL if the finger does not exist, or has been removed.
69A 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_EVENT_FINGER_UP event is _added_ to the event queue, and thus _before_ the SDL_EVENT_FINGER_UP event is polled.
70As a result, be very careful to check for NULL return values.
71
72A SDL_Finger has the following fields:
73* x, y:
74 The current coordinates of the touch.
75* pressure:
76 The pressure of the touch.
77
78
79Please direct questions/comments to:
80 jim.tla+sdl_touch@gmail.com
81 (original author, API was changed since)