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On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 14:26 -0500, Matthew Leverton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Michał Cichoń <michcic@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Deprecated doesn't mean "screwed up", but "we improved our tool basing
> > on experience we got while creating it". Better choice of words will
> > be "not recommended".
> > OK. After rethinking whole thing I can agree to this new-old emulation mode.
> >
> > But I still think this is not the best way to use mouse/touch input IMHO.
> >
> >
> Is there a comparison of the old/new APIs somewhere?
>
I'd like that as well, to be honest. I'm not really sure what you all
are talking about :P
> I think a main goal should be that one doesn't have to write
> touch-specific code if all he wants to do is track that somebody
> clicked on (x,y). If the OS doesn't automatically do that, then I
> think Allegro should require the programmer to enable distinct touch
> events if he expects to process them. But perhaps nothing I'm saying
> is relevant to the discussion...
>
http://alleg.sourceforge.net/a5docs/refman/touch.html
Hm, I think someone forgot to document this...
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