On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Joe Krahn wrote:
> X has the ability for a program to get relative or absolute
> events from a valuator.
>
> XFree86 has decided that ALL events are absolute. Devices
> that send relative data are pre-integrated before that data
> is stored in the ValuatorClass struct and before an app
> can see it.
Currently apps use DGA to get relative motion. We really
need to wean people off of that. I'd like to see DGA gone
in XF5.
Mark.
>
> This is obviously wrong. Maybe a misunderstanding as the
> relative flag being a device type, rather than the type of
> events we want to receive.
>
> The pointer coordinates are stored independent of
> device valuator data. A device sending relative events should
> have relative events in it's history, even if it is the core
> pointer. I'm guessing that was how miPointerDeltaCursor used
> to work. Is there a good reason why miPointerDeltaCursor
> was eliminated?
>
> More broken XInput stuff...
>
> Joe Krahn
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