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

[Adriano Rezende]

On 03/20/2012 10:55 AM, ext Adriano Rezende wrote:
> On 03/15/2012 10:43 AM, ext Shawn Rutledge wrote:
>>> I agree. I think this is the best solution given the deadline. It
>>> will not break any apps and we can get rid of this event synthesis
>>> for good. Is there anybody already working on this fix? Br, Adriano
>> Yes, so far I just got the MouseArea to handle the touch events.  Now I need
>> to disable all the other places where synthesis is done, and do lots of
>> testing.  And then I can see about that enum property.
>>
> I think just removing the synthesis and handling touch events on
> elements like Flickable, MouseArea, etc should be enough. The flag
> itself is a additional feature, so it can be discarded if no API changes
> are allowed.
>
> Regarding the consequences, all C++ components from now on should also
> handle touch and mouse events if they want to support both, which makes
> sense anyway.
>
> Does Shawn have green flag to fix this?

I think another option is to handle mouse event synthesis locally in 
QtQuickItem::touchEvent. This would be an easy fix and would avoid 
breaking any C++ component out there.

Br,
Adriano