Clients reading their surface position on screen

[Thomi Richards]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss at canonical.com>
wrote:

> so reading Gerry's initial mail, it seems to me that autopilot does
> not actually want to deal with absolute screen coordinates (and take
> on the burden of figuring out multi-monitor, multi-dpi cases on its
> own) but instead wants to say: Please Mr. Mir, for this surface with
> ID id, send an event of type Y with these attributes. Where Y is most
> likely touch events and the attributes are surface-relative
> coordinates. With that, we can leverage the existing mir logic, while
> keeping AP free of global knowledge.
>


Actually, that's not the case at all.

We send events through evdev. We do this so events travel through the
entire software stack. We don't want to insert events through mir/unity8
directly.

Anyway, generating events isn't the problem. The problem is figuring out Qt
widget global (screen) coordinates from within the autopilot-qt driver.
Ideally, we'd like to ask Qt "Please Mr Qt, please translate these local
widget coordinates to screen-space coordinates". This is what we do
currently, and it works[1]. I'd really like to not have to deal with mir
directly, since the autopilot-qt driver is complicated enough as it is,
without having to deal with mir directly. We don't currently talk to X11
directly, it'd be a shame to add this low-level code to a library that, to
date, contains reasonably high level code.


RAOF Wrote:

> So, Qt actually has a whole bunch of holes where an API just plain isn't
> supported on all platforms but makes no mention of it. This is one of them.
>
> That call also fails on Wayland compositors, for example.
>
> This should be fixed in Qt by documenting that this doesn't succeed on all
> platforms, and allowing you to check whether you're on a platform where it
> will.
>


This may, or may not all be true, but none of it helps solve the problem :)


I think this conversation is drifting away from the original point. Are
there any strong objections to making the existing Qt API "just work" on
mir?

Cheers,

[1] We already handle multi-monitor configurations. I'm sure some extra
code will have to be written when we have more unusual cases to deal with
(like a tablet plugged in to a large screen, for example), but for now,
this "just works".
-- 
Thomi Richards
thomi.richards at canonical.com
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