Touch input

[SuperSamir 0]

I'm using event.listen("touch") to make wherever I touch to be where the cursor is. However, this only writes the cursor's state on the cursor, and leaves the cursor in the same place it was before. I would like the cursor to move where I click, and be able to write text from there, instead of just leaving the cursor state there.

[Molinko 43]

Are you using term.setCursor??

[SuperSamir 0]

Yes

[Molinko 43]

Are you trying to move the cursor of another program like 'edit' or something?? I'm a bit lost. Perhaps post all your code

[SuperSamir 0]

local event = require("event")
local term = require("term")

function cursor(_, _, x, y)
	term.setCursor(x, y)
end

event.listen("touch", cursor)

 

[Molinko 43]

Each process in openos has its own instance of a cursor. It's stored in the window property of a process I believe.. try assigning to the processes window cursor as term.setCursor will only set the cursor of the process calling it... I can't test any code ATM so you may have some exploring to do

[SuperSamir 0]

When you are able to test, can you show me an example? I'm a bit confused about what you mean by the processes window cursor.

[Molinko 43]

okay so its a bit tricky cause i dont know what exactly you're trying to pull but ill give it a shot...

local term = require "term"
local kb = require "keyboard"
local event = require "event"
local process = require "process"
local component = require "component"

local window = term.internal.open() -- # creates a full screen window. optionally provide (dx, dy, width, height)
term.bind(component.gpu, window) -- # bind the primary gpu to the window we made

local proc = process.info() -- # get an instance of this process' details
local handle = event.listen("touch", function(_, _, x, y) -- # this is basically your 'cursor' function
    	proc.data.window.x = x
    	proc.data.window.y = y
    	print "HI" -- # click around to see the effect
    end)

while true do
  local ev = {event.pull("key")}
  if ev[4] == kb.keys.q then break end -- # quit the loop and basically the program
end

event.cancel(handle) -- # clear the event listener

This example can be modified to control the window of another process as well. I hope this can get you started. Ask away if this isn't very clear....

[Molinko 43]

Was this any help? I forgot, but there is actually a cursor library in the later versions of openos that you might want to check out.. I haven't used it and I'm not familiar with it at all but that might be a better solution.

[SuperSamir 0]

The method you have provided seems to work, which I thank you for. Please do tell me about this cursor library though, I can't seem to find it but it seems like a massive help for the thing I'm programming.

[Molinko 43]

The lib you're looking for are cursor.lua & full_cursor.lua but I'm not sure these will do what you're seeking to accomplish I just remember hearing about them...

Also my example was done in a way that it could be modified to control the windows(and thus the cursors) of other processes. If you just want to access the current processes window it  may be simpler with the tty lib.

local tty = require "tty"
local event = require "event"
local kb = require "keyboard"

local window = tty.window
local handle = event.listen("touch", function(_, _, x, y)
    	window.x = x
    	window.y = y
    	print "HI"
    end)

while true do
  local ev = { event.pull("key", nil, nil, kb.keys.q) }
  event.cancel(handle)
  break
end