Re: Touch Screen

[Alf C Stockton <alf stockton co za>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:

> I guess it depends on your platform, We're using linux and X, X drives
> a touchscreen as a core pointer, in Gtk+ it comes over just like a mouse.
>
> The input module in X always does
>    - PostMotionEvent
>    - PostButtonEvent
>
> (or just postmotion if there is a "drag"), so the pointer position is
> always updated
> before the mouse button down event comes through.
>
> This makes for sequences like:
>  "enter-notify-event" --> "motion-notify-event" --> "button-press-event"
> All at once, in most cases this works fine.
I am using Linux Slackware and X and Gtk+ and for that matter Anjuta as an IDE.
Do you by any chance have a small GTK+ C example that I could look at?

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