Re: [Qemu-devel] Cocoa Video Driver & mouse grabbing

[John R. Hogerhuis]

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 15:55 -0400, Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:20:38PM +0200, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > btw, what is the problem with emulating a touchscreen like
> > interface for the guest? it would be sufficient to set the
> > coordinate field to the window size and every host point
> > could be translated 1:1 to the guest .. no magic, no special
> > accelleration, just simple coordinates ...
> > 
> > probably I'm missing something utterly important here, because
> > it cannot be that simple, can it?
> > 
> 
> Once the absolute coordinates pass through from the touchpad, acceleration can
> still be applied. The effect of this is that the translation is no longer
> 1:1 ... emulating a touchpad doesn't really help unless acceleration is turned
> off in touchpad mode for the guest.
> 

Oops, he said touchscreen not touchpad.

A high res touchscreen emulation sounds like a promising solution. Won't
work with all OSes, but it should work with newer ones anyway. Clever
idea.

-- John.