On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:47:37AM -0800, Chase Douglas wrote: > The first three changes are improvements to the build system. The fourth is a > simple .gitignore update. The fifth is the addition of uTouch-Evemu device > recording playback support. > > Unfortunately, the X.org server does not have a suitable mechanism for > generating test input events for all events. The XTest extension relies on a > static pointer and keyboard combination, does not propagate events through the > normal event path in the server, and only supports X core and XInput 1.x > events. > I wanted to create a new input module that would instantiate new devices on > demand and send events using the xf86XInput API, but the input device > architecture of the server makes this impossible without a new input module > API. > > However, we can get around all this on Linux by using the uinput evdev > subsystem. Any physical device can be recorded and played back as a virtual > device using uinput. uTouch-Evemu is a thin wrapper around uinput that handles > recording to and playing back from files. We use this for utouch-frame, > utouch-grail, and utouch-geis for integration testing. Currently, each has its > own Evemu testing wrapper, but this will help simplify things. > > You can find more information on evemu here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch/Testing/uTouchEvEmu. > > Note that uTouch-Evemu is GPLv3 and cannot be relicensed. Support is being > added > optionally, and if you don't specify --with-evemu or --without-evemu it should > automatically pick it up if it's already installed. Until we have better X.org > input test frameworks, I believe this is a reasonable first step for testing.
Reviewed-by for 1-4 (minus the one comment), Acked-by for the evemu addition (not enough brainspace for C++ right now) Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
