Re: Touchpad - multiple points of contact?

Richard How <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.opie.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:45:47 +0000
Jon Maber <[email protected]> wrote:

> A technical query...
> 
> Is the touch screen on the average handheld capable of detecting and 
> communicating the coordinates of more than one simultaneous point of 
> contact?

Not currently.
 
> I have an input method that involves simultaneous use of both thumbs and 
> I'm wondering which hardware will support it. If there is suitable 
> hardware an obvious question follows - is there any support in Opie for 
> this?

Opie and GPE both use tslib which wont work for you. You will need to
write a kernel driver to do it. It would be a world first  :)

Richard
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