I don't think there is one yet
On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 6:04 PM Go Peppy <peppy.pla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there any planned release date for that version? So that I could just > install it as usual instead of building from source: > > sudo apt-get install python3-pygame > > Thank you! > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 8:00 AM David Lönnhager <dv.ln...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Touch events (FingerMotion, FingerDown, FingerUp, and MultiGesture) >> have been added to pygame. Should work if you build it with SDL2. >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 2:44 AM <mar...@protonmail.ch> wrote: >> > >> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ >> > On Sunday, February 3, 2019 1:44 AM, Go Peppy <peppy.pla...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > That "driver" handles events directly. See function _touch_device here: >> > > https://github.com/pimoroni/python-multitouch/blob/master/library/ft5406.py >> > > >> > > Thank you! >> > > >> > >> > Sorry I still don't get it. We know >> > >> > - it registers events correctly >> > - it appears to integrate with pygame in not completely unreasonable >> > fashion >> > >> > And that's it. Thing is that pygame is built on top of a C library called >> > SDL. Pygame has therefore little to say on its own over what devices are >> > supported on the system level, since it doesn't do much more than bind >> > SDL's event handling interfaces to make them usable in python. So unless >> > you want to write the necessary code in C into SDL first, there seems to >> > be a way that is known to work and let's use that. >> > >> > There might be some prototype Pygame 2 based on SDL2 out there, maybe that >> > one integrates the hardware support you're after? That would require >> > Pygame to support this new event type [0] here. Pygame 2 has been on its >> > way for a while, though, and mentions adding of new APIs on this milestone >> > [1]... >> > >> > cheers! >> > mar77i >> > >> > [0] https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_TouchFingerEvent#SDL_TouchFingerEvent-1 >> > [1] https://github.com/pygame/pygame/milestone/4 >> > >> > >> > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. >> >
