On Wednesday 11 July 2012 10:02:57 Rick Stockton wrote: > On 07/10/2012 07:17 AM, Rick Stockton wrote: > > It's awfully late for an API change to Qt5, but this would be an > > awkward Backward Compatibility problem to attempt in later Qt5 > > Releases: Should Qt5 present a 32-bit Button State mask? > > Oops, that's WRONG. My initial "32 mouse buttons" updates already > created 32 bit mask fields, because all of the Plugin, QPA and Mouse > Button Event instances of Button Mask data are defined as > Qt::MouseButtons datatype. The changes to copy ALL button State bits can > therefore wait until a later 5.x Release (5.1, or whatever). > > But my main question 'Does KDE want this capability?' remains open. > Please advise! I think a general answer to that question is not possible. I can hardly imagine a use case for so many mouse buttons, but I can imagine new input devices coming up behaving like a mouse but not beeing a mouse.
So I would say that it would be a waste to not make use of what's possible. Kind Regards Martin Gräßlin
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