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airportyh
airportyh

Reputation: 22668

Anyway to watch for system wide multitouch events on osx?

I have seen that it is possible to use addGlobalMonitorForEventsMatchingMask: to watch for system wide events for mouse events, scroll events, key events, and even gesture events. I looked at NSEvents.h for the available event masks, but just could not find one for multi-touch events. Is it possible to do this for multi-touch events?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 542

Answers (1)

sillv0r
sillv0r

Reputation: 400

I looked at NSEvents.h for the available event masks, but just could not find one for multi-touch events.

Looks like developer.apple.com has some documentation on the NSEvent class and refer to some touch events/gestures.

"Support for touch and gesture events masks have been added to NSEvent in Mac OS X v10.6...." developer.apple.com

If you're developing for an older OS version than the one specified in the quote, let me know.

EDIT: As far as the function you referenced it looks like the documentation says that touch events are currently not supported.

"In Mac OS X v 10.6, event monitors are only able to monitor the following event types..." addGlobalMonitorForEventsMatchingMask:handler

Upvotes: 2

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