From: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
Cc: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>,
dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: Handling touchscreen buttons
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:34:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070925113441.40035069.Kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709250144.16495.dtor@insightbb.com>
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:44:16 -0400
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2007, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > On my jornada7xx I have 4 buttons on the rightside of the screen (going from Y-low -> Y-high). They are part of the touchscreen.
> > Since they aren't usually used in normal X window handling I was thinking that I should have the driver detect if the touch happend on one of those buttons.
> > The general idea is that I could somehow export detection into /sys so that ordinary applications could make use of them. Example would be that touching one button could be scripted to start an xterm or anything else.
> >
> > Im interested to know if anyone has any examples or suggestion how to best accomplish this?
> >
>
>
> I'd just send KEY_PROG1 .. KEY_PROG4 events through the same input
> device you send the rest of touchscreen events.
>
Great idea, big thanx.
> --
> Dmitry
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2007-09-24 4:39 Handling touchscreen buttons Kristoffer Ericson
2007-09-25 5:44 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-09-25 18:34 ` Kristoffer Ericson [this message]
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