Does that mean that normal mouse movement won't work with that VM? I have a couple other things that take precedent but that does sound like it would be worth playing with.
Cheers, Jeff On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff, since you running linux you can look at what we have done with Ronie > not long ago. > Basically we changed VM and removed all window/event management code and > instead do everything at image side. > I think it would be good if you can try and add multi-touch events support > to the code. > > If you wanna try, you need to build new VM first, > and follow this: > https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/12743/OSWindow-integration > > Then you can look at OSWindow package (its X11 part) and see what is > needed to support multi-touch events. > > You should build VM from sources taken from here: > https://github.com/ronsaldo/pharo-vm > > > > On 11 March 2014 11:37, J.F. Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As we move from mouse-keyboard devices to touch-based ones, it would be >> nice if we could unify touch development across the different Pharo >> platforms (iOS, Android, Windows 8, Linux, etc.), so that we can start to >> build touch-aware widgets and frameworks. Currently, there's a lot of >> interest but no unified movement. For instance, I've got a very nice >> multi-touch 27" computer that I run in Linux. I develop the applications in >> Pharo but I currently use a hack to get the touch events: I use OSProcess >> to start the mtdev2tuio application that takes touch input and sends it via >> TUIO. I then use a UDP socket to read the events on Pharo. If I am to share >> my work, I need to get beyond the hack. I (or rather Igor as I watched) >> investigated the possibility of using NativeBoost calls to do the same, but >> it would not work since mtdev2tuio has to run as superuser, meaning Pharo >> would have to run as superuser. We came to the conclusion that this must be >> a VM-level change. >> >> I'm not a VM hacker but would like to reach the people who maintain the >> linux and windows VM to see if this might not be a reasonable addition to >> the standard VM. There does seem to be standard support for touch events in >> XFree86, so it shouldn't be too large a change on Linux. I assume that >> Windows 8 similarly makes touch events available. Is this the right place >> to ask or is there another mailing list (e.g., the cog-vm)? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jeff >> >> -- >> Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. >> http://www.je77.com/ >> Skype ID: jochenrick >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. > -- Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. http://www.je77.com/ Skype ID: jochenrick
