Thread: multitouch on N900
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2009-10-23 , 16:36
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Originally Posted by w00t View Post
Fine, but I think you missed the point a bit. He's talking about emulating multi-touch by checking for the position of a single touch moving at a rapid speed, if I understand correctly.
Ah yes, didn't realize.

We call that 'gestures'. One application using them for long long time is Opera. Albeit mouse gestures.

One side effect of this emulation may be the kernel driver must then check very often for the input which will use considerably more battery juice. Although the display driver won't have to show that it checks more often; only touchscreen/input part needs to.
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