I originally sent this mail to Christoph Brill who suggested this forum. Let me give 3 sentences of background to my request. I am a totally blind researcher who needs to look at 2-dimensional data. As a hobby project I'm trying to write an application to use graphics tablets and audio output to do this. I would like to extend this to built-in touchpads on laptops but I have to get the absolute position of a finger on the touchpad rather than just relative movement.
Hence my question. The touchpad must receive absolute position information but it appears that, at least by the time I get to pygtk, the x,y are mapped relative so that picking a finger up and putting it back down somewhere else doesn't change the position. this is what one would normally want, after all these touchpads aren't meant to be graphics tablets, but I need absolute position. Is this information made available to the X server? If so can someone give me a pointer to how to access it in pygtk? thanks in advance for any help Peter -- I HAVE MOVED. Note new contact details: Peter Rayner room 330 School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Vic, Australia tel: work: +61 (0)3 8344 9708; fax: +61 (0)3 8344 7761 mail-to: [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
