The following input devices are supported by sky:
The following input devices are not supported natively by sky, but can be used by connecting directly to the mojo application servicing the relevant device:
The following interactions are intended to be easy to handle:
Frameworks are responsible for converting pointer events described below into widget-specific events such as the following:
In particular, this means distinguishing whether a finger tap consists of a tap, a drag, or a long-press; it also means distinguishing whether a drag, once established as such, should be treated as a pan or a drag, and deciding whether a secondary touch should begin a zoom/rotation or not.
Each touch or pointer is tracked individually.
New touches and pointers can appear and disappear over time.
Each pointer has a list of current targets.
When a new one enters the system, a non-bubbling ‘pointer-added’ event is fired at the application‘s document, and the pointer’s current targets list is initialised to just that Document object.
When it is removed, a non-bubbling ‘pointer-removed’ event is fired at the application‘s document and at any other objects in the pointer’s current targets list. Currently, at the time of a pointer-removed, the list will always consist of only the document.
A pointer can be “up” or “down”. Initially all pointers are “up”.
A pointer switches from “up” to “down” when it is a touch or stylus that is in contact with the display surface, or when it is a mouse that is being clicked, and from “down” back to “up” when this ends. (Note that clicking a button on a stylus doesn't change it from up to down. A stylus can have a button pressed while “up”.) In the case of a mouse with multiple buttons, the pointer switches back to “up” only when all the buttons have been released.
When a pointer switches from “up” to “down”, the following algorithm is run:
When an object is one of the current targets of a pointer and no other pointers have that object as a current target so far, and either there are no buttons (touch, stylus) or only the primary button is active (mouse) and this is not an inverted stylus, then that pointer is considered the “primary” pointer for that object. The pointer remains the primary pointer for that object until the corresponding pointer-up event (even if the buttons change).
When a pointer moves, a non-bubbling ‘pointer-move’ event is fired at each of the pointer‘s current targets in turn (maintaining the order they had in the ‘pointer-down’ event, if there’s more than one). If the return value of a ‘pointer-moved’ event is ‘cancel’, and the pointer is currently down, then the pointer is canceled (see below).
When a pointer‘s button state changes but this doesn’t impact whether it is “up” or “down”, e.g. when a mouse with a button down gets a second button down, or when a stylus' buttons change state, but the pointer doesn't simultaneously move, then a ‘pointer-moved’ event is fired anyway, as described above, but with dx=dy=0.
When a pointer switches from “down” to “up”, a non-bubbling ‘pointer-up’ event is fired at each of the pointer‘s current targets in turn (maintaining the order they had in the ‘pointer-down’ event, if there’s more than one), and then the pointer‘s current target list is emptied except for the application’s document. The buttons exposed on the ‘pointer-up’ event are those that were down immediately prior to the buttons being released.
At the time of a ‘pointer-up’ event, for each object that is a current target of the pointer, and for which the pointer is considered the “primary” pointer for that object, if there is another pointer that is already down, which is of the same kind, which also has that object as a current target, and that has either no buttons or only its primary button active, then that pointer becomes the new “primary” pointer for that object before the ‘pointer-up’ event is sent. Otherwise, the “primary” pointer stops being “primary” just after the ‘pointer-up’ event. (This matters for whether the ‘primary’ field is set.)
When a pointer is canceled, if it is “down”, pretend that the pointer moved to “up”, sending ‘pointer-up’ as described above, and entirely empty its current targets list. AFter the pointer actually switches from “down” to “up”, replace the current targets list with an object that only contains the application's document.
Nothing special happens when a pointer's current target moves in the DOM.
The x and y position of an -up or -down event always match those of the previous -moved or -added event, so their dx and dy are always 0.
Positions are floating point numbers; they can have subpixel values.
These data of all these events is an object with the following fields:
pointer: an integer assigned to this touch or pointer when it
enters the system, never reused, increasing
monotonically every time a new value is assigned,
starting from 1 (if the system gets a new tap every
microsecond, this will cause a problem after 285
years)
kind: one of 'touch', 'mouse', 'stylus', 'inverted-stylus'
x: x-position relative to the top-left corner of the
surface of the node on which the event was fired
y: y-position relative to the top-left corner of the
surface of the node on which the event was fired
dx: difference in x-position since last pointer-moved
event
dy: difference in y-position since last pointer-moved
event
buttons: a bitfield of the buttons pressed, from the following
list:
1: primary mouse button (not available on stylus)
2: secondary mouse button, primary stylus button
3: middle mouse button, secondary stylus button
4: back button
5: forward button
additional buttons can be represented by numbers
greater than six:
n: (n-2)th mouse button, ignoring any buttons that
are explicitly back or forward buttons
(n-4)th stylus button, again ignoring any
explictly back or forward buttons
note that stylus buttons can be pressed even when the
pointer is not "down"
e.g. if the left mouse button and the right mouse
button are pressed at the same time, the value will
be 3 (bits 1 and 2); if the right mouse button and
the back button are pressed at the same time, the
value will be 10 (bits 2 and 4)
down: true if the pointer is down (in pointer-down event or
subsequent pointer-move events); false otherwise (in
pointer-added, pointer-up, and pointer-removed
events, and in pointer-move events that aren't
between pointer-down and pointer-up events)
primary: true if this is a primary pointer/touch (see above)
can only be set for pointer-moved and pointer-up
obscured: true if the system was rendering another view on top
of the sky application at the time of the event (this
is intended to enable click-jacking protections)
When down is true:
pressure: the pressure of the touch as a number ranging from
0.0, indicating a touch with no discernible pressure,
to 1.0, indicating a touch with "normal" pressure,
and possibly beyond, indicating a stronger touch; for
devices that do not detect pressure (e.g. mice),
returns 1.0
pressure-min: the minimum value that pressure can return for this pointer
pressure-max: the maximum value that pressure can return for this pointer
When kind is ‘touch’, ‘stylus’, or ‘stylus-inverted’:
distance: distance of detected object from surface (e.g.
distance of stylus or finger from screen), if
supported and down is not true, otherwise 0.0.
distance-min: the minimum value that distance can return for this pointer (always 0.0)
distance-max: the maximum value that distance can return for this pointer (0.0 if not supported)
When kind is ‘touch’, ‘stylus’, or ‘stylus-inverted’ and down is true:
radius-major: the radius of the contact ellipse along the major axis, in pixels
radius-minor: the radius of the contact ellipse along the major axis, in pixels
radius-min: the minimum value that could be reported for
radius-major or radius-minor for this pointer
radius-max: the maximum value that could be reported for
radius-major or radius-minor for this pointer
When kind is ‘touch’ and down is true:
orientation: the angle of the contact ellipse, in radians in the
range
-pi/2 < orientation <= pi/2
...giving the angle of the major axis of the ellipse
with the y-axis (negative angles indicating an
orientation along the top-left / bottom-right
diagonal, positive angles indicating an orientation
along the top-right / bottom-left diagonal, and zero
indicating an orientation parallel with the y-axis)
When kind is ‘stylus’ or ‘stylus-inverted’:
orientation: the angle of the stylus, in radians in the range
-pi < orientation <= pi
...giving the angle of the axis of the stylus
projected onto the screen, relative to the positive
y-axis of the screen (thus 0 indicates the stylus, if
projected onto the screen, would go from the contact
point vertically up in the positive y-axis direction,
pi would indicate that the stylus would go down in
the negative y-axis direction; pi/4 would indicate
that the stylus goes up and to the right, -pi/2 would
indicate that the stylus goes to the left, etc)
tilt: the angle of the stylus, in radians in the range
0 <= tilt <= pi/2
...giving the angle of the axis of the stylus,
relative to the axis perpendicular to the screen
(thus 0 indicates the stylus is orthogonal to the
plane of the screen, while pi/2 indicates that the
stylus is flat on the screen)
TODO(ianh): add an API that exposes the currently existing pointers, so that you can determine e.g. if you have a mouse.
TODO(ianh): determine what the update frequency of these events should be. One set of events per frame? Multiple updates per frame?
When a wheel input device is turned, a ‘wheel’ event that bubbles is fired at the application's document, with the following fields:
wheel: an integer assigned to this wheel by the system. The
same wheel on the same system must always be given
the same ID. The primary wheel (e.g. the vertical
wheel on a mouse) must be given ID 1.
delta: an floating point number representing the fraction of
the wheel that was turned, with positive numbers
representing a downward movement on vertical wheels,
rightward movement on horizontal wheels, and a
clockwise movement on wheels with a user-facing side.
Additionally, if the wheel is associated with a pointer (e.g. a mouse wheel), the following fields must be present also:
pointer: the integer assigned to the pointer in its
'pointer-add' event (see above).
x: x-position relative to the top-left corner of the
display, in global layout coordinates
y: x-position relative to the top-left corner of the
display, in global layout coordinates
Note: The only wheels that are supported are mouse wheels and physical dials. Track balls are not reported as mouse wheels.