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On 6 Nov 2010, at 11:51 , Trent Gamblin wrote:
> A little while back the iPhone mouse handling was changed to insert a mouse
> AXES event after every touch and every release. I really don't like that...
> For one there's no reason to do so. It's counter-intuitive, it makes writing
> sophisticated multitouch code harder, and as I said, it just doesn't make
> sense to arbitrarily insert events.
What was the rationale behind doing it?
> Allegro should pass along the events the OS gives it, not insert events on its own. Thoughts?
Agreed, with the provision that it should behave the same across platforms as much as possible, so there may be situations where it's legitimate for Allegro to insert events of its own. Not saying this is one of them.
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