[Development] need to handle touch events rather than depending on mouse event synthesis

Atlant Schmidt aschmidt at dekaresearch.com
Thu Mar 1 16:43:37 CET 2012


Shawn:

> BTW back in the 80's I knew an old civil engineer who was new to
> computers (more of a slide-rule guy) and thought that "mouse" referred
> to what we usually call the cursor (the arrow on the screen).  I've
> also seen in the context of CAD digitizing tablets that the puck you
> move around on the tablet can be called a cursor, especially if it has
> crosshairs for accurately digitizing existing drawings.  If this
> confusion occurs again after younger generations forget about physical
> mice, maybe the MouseArea name won't be so bad after all.

  People seem to survive calling the file a "core" file
  even though magnetic core memory probably hasn't been
  dumped into one of those files in several decades... ;-)

  They'll probably survive these terminology "adjustments"
  as well.

                            Atlant


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