On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:

> On 06/08/2016 11:03 AM, marcel.taeumel wrote:
>> So, if you had real touch/swipe events and could do kinetic scrolling...
>> this would we very cool. :)
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> I've previously tried to read touchscreen events on Linux from
> /dev/input/event*, but ran into trouble because the Squeak VMs I tried
> all treat "file I/O" as blocking - that is, bytes will be immediately
> available, or end-of-file will be immediately available.
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> This is, of course, not true for /dev/input/event* ! Reading from such
> files is much more like reading from a socket.
>
> Does any kind of plugin or overlooked primitive exist that'd allow for
> non-blocking reads from /dev/input/event* pseudofiles?

I guess you can use the AIO plugin for that, or you can use OSProcess, 
which also uses the AIO plugin for non-blocking reads.

Levente

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