QTouchDevice

The QTouchDevice class describes the device from which touch events originate. More…

Synopsis

Functions

• def capabilities ()

• def maximumTouchPoints ()

• def name ()

• def setCapabilities (caps)

• def setMaximumTouchPoints (max)

• def setName (name)

• def setType (devType)

• def type ()

Static functions

• def devices ()

Detailed Description

Each QTouchEvent contains a QTouchDevice pointer to allow accessing device-specific properties like type and capabilities. It is the responsibility of the platform or generic plug-ins to register the available touch devices via QWindowSystemInterface before generating any touch events. Applications do not need to instantiate this class, they should just access the global instances pointed to by device() .

class PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice

Creates a new touch device instance. By default the name is empty, the only capability is Position and type is TouchScreen .

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.DeviceType

This enum represents the type of device that generated a QTouchEvent .

Constant	Description
QTouchDevice.TouchScreen	In this type of device, the touch surface and display are integrated. This means the surface and display typically have the same size, such that there is a direct relationship between the touch points’ physical positions and the coordinate reported by TouchPoint . As a result, Qt allows the user to interact directly with multiple QWidgets and QGraphicsItems at the same time.
QTouchDevice.TouchPad	In this type of device, the touch surface is separate from the display. There is not a direct relationship between the physical touch location and the on-screen coordinates. Instead, they are calculated relative to the current mouse position, and the user must use the touch-pad to move this reference point. Unlike touch-screens, Qt allows users to only interact with a single QWidget or QGraphicsItem at a time.

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.CapabilityFlag

This enum is used with capabilities() to indicate what kind of information the touch device or its driver can provide.

Constant	Description
QTouchDevice.Position	Indicates that position information is available, meaning that the pos() family of functions in the touch points return valid points.
QTouchDevice.Area	Indicates that touch area information is available, meaning that the rect() family of functions in the touch points return valid rectangles.
QTouchDevice.Pressure	Indicates that pressure information is available, meaning that pressure() returns a valid value.
QTouchDevice.Velocity	Indicates that velocity information is available, meaning that velocity() returns a valid vector.
QTouchDevice.RawPositions	Indicates that the list returned by rawScreenPositions() may contain one or more positions for each touch point. This is relevant when the touch input gets filtered or corrected on driver level.
QTouchDevice.NormalizedPosition	Indicates that the normalized position is available, meaning that normalizedPos() returns a valid value.
QTouchDevice.MouseEmulation	Indicates that the device synthesizes mouse events. This enum value has been introduced in Qt 5.5.

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.capabilities()

Return type:

Capabilities

Returns the touch device capabilities.

See also

setCapabilities()

static PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.devices()

Return type:

Returns a list of all registered devices.

Note

The returned list cannot be used to add new devices. To add a simulated touch screen for an autotest, createTouchDevice() can be used. To add real touch screens to QPA plugins, the private QWindowSystemInterface::registerTouchDevice() function can be used.

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.maximumTouchPoints()

Return type:

int

Returns the maximum number of simultaneous touch points (fingers) that can be detected.

See also

setMaximumTouchPoints()

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.name()

Return type:

str

Returns the touch device name.

This string may often be empty. It is however useful for systems that have more than one touch input device because there it can be used to differentiate between the devices (i.e. to tell from which device a QTouchEvent originates from).

See also

setName()

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.setCapabilities(caps)

Parameters:

caps – Capabilities

Sets the capabilities caps supported by the device and its driver.

See also

capabilities()

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.setMaximumTouchPoints(max)

Parameters:

max – int

Sets the maximum number of simultaneous touchpoints max supported by the device and its driver.

See also

maximumTouchPoints()

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.setName(name)

Parameters:

name – str

Sets the name (a unique identifier) for the device. In most systems it is enough to leave this unset and keep the default empty name. This identifier becomes important when having multiple touch devices and a need to differentiate between them.

See also

name()

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.setType(devType)

Parameters:

devType – DeviceType

Sets the device type devType .

See also

type()

PySide2.QtGui.QTouchDevice.type()

Return type:

DeviceType

Returns the touch device type.

See also

setType()