Detecting Apple Trackpad

[randomnovice]

Hi folks,

My Macbook Pro trackpad appears to detect on Löve exclusively as a mouse.

For example...

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function love.mousepressed(x, y, button, istouch, presses) 
  if istouch == true then print("Detected a touch via mousepressed") end
end

...and...

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function love.touchpressed(id, x, y, dx, dy, pressure)
  print("Detected a touch via touchpressed")
end

...both result in no joy (nothing printed).

Is there any way I can detect and make use of the trackpad?

I have tried love.touch.getTouches() and it doesn't detect anything.

Thanks!

(ps: I have checked that the touch module is enabled!)
(pps: I've using Zerobrane IDE if that's relevant, but I've confirmed it also doesn't work when packaged up as a .love file.)

[ReFreezed]

The touch functionality is for touch screens, i.e. when there's no single persistent "cursor" is involved. Trackpads are mostly just used as a pointing device replacement for the mouse. Also, the coordinates you get in the *pressed events are coordinates within the program's window - not on the trackpad or anything.

I think it'd be weird for a trackpad to behave like a touch screen.

[randomnovice]

Okay, thanks. Sounds like it's not possible to get access to the multi-touch capability then? I was thinking of making use of things like the pincer movement for zoom. The two finger scroll does get picked up by love.mouse.wheelmoved at least.

[ReFreezed]

If gestures like pinching do not produce keyboard, mouse or touchscreen events then it's probably not possible to detect those in LÖVE right now. You can add a feature request for it in the issue tracker.

There may be a way to access trackpad information through SDL (which is what LÖVE uses under the hood) using the FFI module, but I don't know more than that.