Re: [AD] Touch input, new emulation mode

[Michał Cichoń <michcic@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Windows emulate mouse while using touch-input. WinAPI provide a way to
distinguish event source. Allegro is doing that and ignore "fake"
events if touch input is used.
This guarantee that emulation will work in the same way on Windows and iOS.

On 23 March 2011 23:57, Matthew Leverton <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I'll commit it next time I'm in the right OS. I'll change it so that
>> it's not the default behavior too. I'm also thinking of changing the
>> name from BACKWARDS_COMPATIBLE to 5_0 or 5_0_COMPATIBLE or something
>> like that.
>>
> I assume none of this is going into the 5.0 branch. If so, I think
> Trent is right that there should be a way to enable the 5_0 mode via
> ALLEGRO_MOUSE_EMULATION_5_0, but I don't think it should be the
> default.
>
> What about platforms like a Windows tablet PC... how is that touch
> input recognized? I don't think a Windows programmer should have to
> explicitly enable mouse emulation to get touch to work like a mouse.
> Does Windows automatically handle that (generate mouse events), or
> would Allegro need to? (It's not so big of a deal on the iPhone, where
> your target obviously is touch based.)
>
>
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