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PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd"> |
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<concept id="GUID-9126A296-0301-4077-A183-3D703F77C548" xml:lang="en"><title>Multi-Touch |
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Support in the Emulator Overview</title><shortdesc>This topic provides an overview of multi-touch support in the emulator. |
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Two mice are used to provide two independent pointer positions. The emulator |
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responds to the mice’s individual button-clicks, moves, and mouse wheel scrolls |
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as if two human fingers are moving, touching or hovering over the screen.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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<p>The emulator can be extended to support more than two mice or other pointer |
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devices.</p> |
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<p><b>Variant</b>: <xref href="GUID-D93978BE-11A3-5CE3-B110-1DEAA5AD566C.dita">ScreenPlay</xref>. <b>Target |
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audience</b>: Application developers. </p> |
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<p>The following figure shows two Windows pointers on the emulator screen, |
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each representing a mouse device. The ordinal integer (starting from 0) beside |
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each pointer is the unique device identifier. The position of each mouse on |
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the screen is represented by the X and Y coordinates. The pressure (a positive |
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value) and proximity (a negative value) information captured by the mouse |
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wheel is represented by the Z coordinate. Notice that the status bar shows |
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the identifier and the dynamic X, Y and Z values of each pointer.</p> |
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<fig id="GUID-03428614-06B1-4821-A284-C3B6DB8E053C"> |
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<title>Two pointers are displayed in the emulator</title> |
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<image href="GUID-3E80A006-F8D8-45C5-9773-7CC239AE86D9_d0e199057_href.png" placement="inline"/> |
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<p>The delivery of pointer events from the emulator driver to the Window Server |
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is the same in the multi-touch environment as in the single pointer environment. |
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This means the raw events for a mouse move, button click and mouse wheel movement |
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are delivered to the Window Server as usual. Each mouse has a unique device |
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identifier, which makes it possible to ascertain which mouse the events relate |
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to. The raw events for each individual mouse include the following: </p> |
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<li><p><codeph>TRawEvent::EPointerMove</codeph> indicates a mouse move or |
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a mouse wheel movement event.</p></li> |
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<li><p><codeph>TRawEvent::EButton1Down</codeph> indicates that the left mouse |
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button is pressed down.</p></li> |
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<li><p><codeph>TRawEvent::EButton1Up</codeph> indicates that the left mouse |
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button is released.</p></li> |
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<li><p><codeph>TRawEvent::EPointerOutOfRange</codeph> indicates that the proximity |
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of a mouse is out of range. This means that the Z coordinate value of the |
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mouse has reached <codeph>HALData::EPointer3DMaxProximity</codeph>.</p></li> |
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</ul> |
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<section id="GUID-44C3561D-92A1-421E-9AD3-0D8648919C46-GENID-1-8-1-12-1-1-7-1-5-1-6-1-8-1-9-1-8-1-5-1-3-7"> <title>Pressure |
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and proximity emulation</title><p>The Z coordinate value is used to represent |
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the pressure and proximity to the screen. In the emulator, the Z value is |
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captured and tuned by the mouse wheel movement.</p><ul> |
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<li><p>Z < 0 indicates the proximity of the device from the screen.</p></li> |
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<li><p>Z > 0 indicates pressure.</p></li> |
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</ul><p>See <xref href="GUID-9C269F45-F160-5A4B-ABF8-896D2A538E3B.dita">Advanced |
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Pointer Overview</xref> for more information about pressure and proximity.</p><p>The |
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mouse wheel combines the features of a wheel and a mouse button. The wheel |
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has discrete, evenly spaced notches. Rotating the wheel backwards or forwards |
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has the effect of changing the pressure or proximity.</p><ul> |
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<li><p>When the mouse wheel is rotated, a device-specific message is sent |
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<li><p>The Z coordinate is initiated as 0. Then when the wheel is moved forward, |
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the Z value enters the pressure range and increases by one pressure step. |
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When the wheel is moved backward, the Z value enters the proximity range and |
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decreases by one proximity step.</p><p>The pressure or proximity step can |
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be customized in the <filepath>epoc.ini</filepath> file. See <xref href="GUID-930F1E88-2A03-4BD1-AA2A-3A0128A844BD.dita">Enabling |
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Multi-Touch in the Emulator Tutorial</xref> for more information.</p></li> |
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forward by one notch increases Z by one pressure step. Moving the wheel backward |
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by one notch decreases Z by one pressure step, until Z returns to 0.</p></li> |
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<li><p>There are limits to the values of the Z coordinate. This |
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<li><p>When the mouse button down or up event (<codeph>TRawEvent::EButton1Down</codeph> or <codeph>TRawEvent::EButton1Up</codeph>) |
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Pointers</linktext></link> |
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Multi-Touch in the Emulator Tutorial</linktext></link> |
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