[UI] [Touch] Multitouch doesn't work

[GitSquared]

It's gonna be tough getting some hardware for testing, but it seems multi-touch actions like using the Shift key on the keyboard does not work.

Perhaps adding a document-wide touch event handler that would activate each element touched could fix the issue. Can the onclick event be triggered by JS? yes

this might help?

P.S: #100 🎉

[GitSquared]

Added "investigation" tag and question mark to reflect that this issue isn't confirmed and i'm currently not able to test it.

If you're reading this, and you happen to have a large enough multi-touch screen, please contact me. Any help confirming this would be much appreciated.

[DecryptingElectrons]

Hey I just saw this project on r/UnixPorn.

I have a Lenovo X230. Ik it supports multitouch because I am able to trigger right click with two fingers.

I will play around with EDEX-UI when I can and I'll tell you what I find.

[GitSquared]

@Beall619 Thank you, much appreciated.

[DecryptingElectrons]

So i can can confirm that holding the on screen shift key, and then attempting to touch another button will pull the mouse and click it on the second press. Eg.. It is preferring the most recent press.

Also, i had to play around trying to right click things.

Xfce4 whiskermenu wont do it, actually clicks the first spot..

Desktop icons and Thunar easily right click.

Google Chrome has another touch screen feature(as of right now) that requires the user to hold an area to right click it.

I just thought that was interesting, it is very gui specific.

[GitSquared]

Damned. So i guess i'll have to write a custom touch handler or something.

Thanks for the info. I'll try and make something up, say for around next week if i can spare the time.

[MattMacs]

I can confirm the issue on Lenovo P1 / Win10 x64

[GitSquared]

(Locking this until i make progress on it, thank you all)

[GitSquared]

Starting to work on this since i now have hardware to test it (finally).
First try: 91c6d64

[GitSquared]

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[OriginMayo]

dragging two fingers away from each other or towards each other anywhere on the keyboard also creates quite a ridiculus amount of text input to the terminal, so large - i have to term the proc to regain control of the ui.