[Qt5-feedback] X11 mouse buttons in qt4, qt5, and KDE: please, PLEASE review this design.

[Donald Carr]

My new gyroscopic mouse is useless in the face of Qt's inadequacies:

http://i01.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/370173777/90_bass_hand_organ.jpg

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Иван Комиссаров <abbapoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is out of scope:)
>
> We can support _standard_ mouse (with no more than 32 buttons), but this number is reduced to support only _standard_ buttons (like right/left, wheel, back/forward, etc) and can be extended later (second wheel button for example:))
>
> But anything beyond standard buttons should not be supported in this enum; we can use int/list of ints for non-standard buttons (or just not support them at all).
>
> So i think we need something like
> class QMouseEvent {
> public:
>    enum StandardButton {None, Left, Right…}; // platform-independent
>    StandardButton button() const; // button caused event
>    StandardButtons buttons() const; // all pressed buttons
>    int specificButton() const; // device-specific button, value depends on manufacturer
> };
>
> 28.07.2011, в 18:44, Samuel Rødal написал(а):
>
> On 07/28/2011 03:43 PM, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On Thursday, 28 de July de 2011 10:25:17 Samuel Rødal wrote:
>>> Oh, another thought, can't we just extend the MouseButtonMask to include
>>> more bits in Qt 5? Would 32 buttons be sufficient for any reasonable use?
>>
>> Yes, just like 640 kB will be sufficient for any reasonable use :-)
>
> Well, I found an 18-buttoned mouse at least:
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1566251/-button-mouse-black
>
> Maybe I should get one for testing the new APIs.
>
> Question is, at what point does it go from being a mouse to becoming a
> custom input device, outside the scope of QMouseEvent? :)
>
> --
> Samuel
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