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touch.new

Touch Core4 Lua Event System

SYNOPSIS

touchhandle = touch.new(app)

DESCRIPTION

Create a new touch screen event handler. The handler is attached to the event processor passed in app.

Touch screen events are detected during the event loop inside event:poll() and reported to the callbacks touch.event(), touch.click() and touch.input().

RETURN VALUE

On success, a touch event handler instance. If opening the input device fails, three values are returned: nil, a string describing the error (The result of the C library call strerror() on the errno code) and the errno number from the standard C library.

EXAMPLE

>  > 
app = event.new() tch = touch.new(app)

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