Touch Events, Scrolling, and Windows Pen
Anthony Petrov
anthony.petrov at oracle.com
Mon Jun 3 06:52:42 PDT 2013
Hi Danno,
Thank you for the patch. I've published a webrev at:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~anthony/g-301-penEvents-RT-30869.0/
The fix looks fine to me. Could anyone else please review it?
--
best regards,
Anthony
On 06/03/13 04:59, Danno Ferrin wrote:
> I created a new bug for the pen support bug, with a tested patch. I
> spent way more time getting the build up than doing the fix, such is
> native work.
> https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-30869
> For the pan-select, I attached a fix for list views to the existing
> bug. If that approach passes muster I can do the same for tree and table.
> https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-21091
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Anthony Petrov
> <anthony.petrov at oracle.com <mailto:anthony.petrov at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> Danno, could you please prepare a patch for this bug, test it, and
> post it for review here?
>
> --
> best regards,
> Anthony
>
>
> On 05/28/2013 07:46 PM, Danno Ferrin wrote:
>
> For 8.0 that would be the best solution IMHO.
> On May 28, 2013 8:41 AM, "Pavel Safrata"
> <pavel.safrata at oracle.com <mailto:pavel.safrata at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> So it seems to me that in short term (FX8) the pen should
> produce mouse
> events with isSynthesized==false. We can introduce something
> more advanced
> in the future, but right now it should generally work and
> the synthesized
> flag really seems to be misused here.
> Pavel
>
> On 28.5.2013 16:09, Danno Ferrin wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Anthony Petrov
> <anthony.petrov at oracle.com
> <mailto:anthony.petrov at oracle.com>>**__wrote:
>
> Hi Danno,
>
>
>
> On 05/27/2013 07:27 PM, Danno Ferrin wrote:
>
> My next problem is the pen device on Windows.
> The only events captured
>
> in
> JavaFX from a pen are mouse events. To
> complicate things the
> "Synthesized"
> flag is set. This is a bit disconcerting
> because to the view of a JFX
> app
> there is no other event for it to be synthesized
> to. So I would propose
> the isPenEvent method in
> /glass/glass-lib-windows/src/*__**
>
> *ViewContainer.cpp
> be
> added to check that the 0x80 bit is set by
> changing the signature
> to 0xFF515780 and the mask to 0xFFFFFF80, making
> a pen event look just
> like
> a mouse event, since it only generates mouse
> events. (the linked MSDN
> article in the code explains the lower 8 bits,
> and the high bit is a
> pen/touch flag, the logic may need to be more
> complex). To distinguish
> a
> pen tap perhaps we set the direct flag but not
> the synthesized flag,
> since
> a pen is direct on the screen (usually).
>
> So am I way off base on these? Should I work up
> a patch for these? Or
> must the current behavior be maintained.
>
> AFAIK, we haven't tested Glass/FX with a Pen
> device and I doubt we even
>
> have proper hardware to test it at the moment. So
> such a patch would
> certainly be welcome. Please feel free to post it on
> this mailing list
> for
> a review.
>
> I think the QA and dev team should invest a few
> thousand and buy one or
>
> two
> each of a Surface Pro, a Samsung Ativ 500T, and maybe an
> Asus VivoTab (but
> only the Asus if you can get the pen with it on the same
> order). The
> "triple threat" input devices (mouse/pen/touch) will
> cover a lot of bases.
>
>
> However, we should first decide how we want to
> process Pen events. They
>
> are not regular mouse events, nor are they similar
> to regular touch
> events
> (though they have a lot in common with the latter).
> E.g. suppose you can
> control your Surface Pro with a finger using its
> touch screen. These are
> touch events. Now, you could also connect a USB
> mouse to this device, and
> that would have to generate regular mouse events.
> Additionally, you could
> connect a graphic tablet such as a Wacom Bamboo for
> example, and this
> device would have to generate some special Pen
> events, right?
>
> As far as I can tell pen evens are just the same
> as mouse events unless
>
> you
> use microsofts "Ink" APIs to insert "Ink" into your
> application. So
> unless
> JavaFX adds support for digital ink, there is vey little
> difference. The
> only one that comes to mind is pressure sensitivity, and
> the minority of
> windows pen screens or pads support pressure sensitivity.
>
>
>
> Should we introduce a new kind of events for Pen
> events in FX? Or does it
>
> make sense to use touch events for this purpose? How
> would we distinguish
> between finger- and pen- based input events in the
> above scenario then?
>
> Behavior is a big difference in pen vs touch.
> Tap and drag for touch
>
> gets interpreted as a scroll pan, while tap and drag for
> a pen
> gets interpreted as a mouse click and drag, for example
> selecting text.
>
> Pen events don't generate touch gestures like the touch
> screens do.
> Unless
> you count the "flicks" api in microsoft land which just
> generates events
> at
> the windows level for stuff like delete, cut, copy,
> paste, etc. Much like
> the multimedia keyboard.
>
> A new boolean field could be added isPen could be added
> on the mouseEvent,
> or a new enum property at InputEvent called Input
> Device, that would
> enumerate if it was mouse, touch, pen, keyboard, or
> whatever standard
> input
> devies show up in the future. These enums could then be
> loaded with all
> sorts of interesting queries in case a user wants to
> write their app in a
> future proof way, such as are drag events principally
> pan-scrolling, is
> the
> gesture device direct/indirect. Maybe not an enum, but
> a separate HCI
> object rather than pushing the random flags into the
> event system.
>
>
> What other options do we have?
>
>
>
> Keeping pen input second class is fine I think,
> as long as it is
>
> consistent
> with the differences between touch and mouse in non-ink
> areas. If we have
> to confuse them with one type or the other, confuse them
> with mouse events
> because they are closer to mouse events then touch
> events. There are more
> important areas for JavaFX to go to before it goes down
> the digital ink
> path.
>
>
> --
>
> best regards,
> Anthony
>
>
>
>
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