Freakin' brilliant!!! Henrik, this is huge, thanks. I can't wait to start playing with it, scripting against it, etc.
I've put it up on Launchpad already, under canonical-multitouch: https://edge.launchpad.net/canonical-multitouch/utouch-evemu I've pre-populated a wiki page with the content from Henrik's email here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch/Testing/uTouchEvEmu Thanks again, Henrik! d On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Henrik Rydberg <rydb...@bitmath.org> wrote: > As part of the effort to produce an MT device and gesture testing framework, > meet evemu, which provides tools to emulate kernel evdev devices. The > project can currently be found at > > http://bitmath.org/code/evemu/ > > and will appear on bazaar and utouch during the week. > > Compared to evtest, the major differences are that these tools allow you to > first setup a device based on a description, hook something to it like pymt or > mtview, and then playback events through the device. And it works for MT [1]. > > To describe a device in your machine: > > sudo evemu-describe /dev/input/eventX > device.prop > > To record data from your device: > > sudo evemu-record /dev/input/eventX > device.event > > To remotely setup a copy of the device: > > sudo evemu-device device.prop > > The device node will be printed on the terminal, and will stay valid until the > program is terminated. To replay the input stream (beware that pointer clicks > can execute commands in your window manager): > > sudo evemu-play /dev/input/eventY < device.event > > More interestingly, one can first setup a program like mtview to grab the > input: > > sudo mtview /dev/input/eventY > > and then replay the data, which will show every individual finger on the > screen. > > Given the evemu lib, one can time gestures by first setting up the device, > replay gestures on the device, and time the appearance of gestures in grail. > > Enjoy, > Henrik > > [1] For MT slots devices, a kernel patch is needed that is not upstream yet. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev > Post to : multi-touch-dev@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : multi-touch-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
