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<p>Functions for querying multi-touch-related capabilities.
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<tr class="memitem:gaf272526f0a59d2f61ef7389046cd4088"><td class="memItemLeft" align="right" valign="top">int </td><td class="memItemRight" valign="bottom"><a class="el" href="group__mt.html#gaf272526f0a59d2f61ef7389046cd4088">libevdev_get_num_slots</a> (const struct libevdev *dev)</td></tr>
<tr class="memdesc:gaf272526f0a59d2f61ef7389046cd4088"><td class="mdescLeft"> </td><td class="mdescRight">Get the number of slots supported by this device. <a href="#gaf272526f0a59d2f61ef7389046cd4088">More...</a><br /></td></tr>
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<p>Functions for querying multi-touch-related capabilities. </p>
<p>MT devices following the kernel protocol B (using ABS_MT_SLOT) provide multiple touch points through so-called slots on the same axis. The slots are enumerated, a client reading from the device will first get an ABS_MT_SLOT event, then the values of axes changed in this slot. Multiple slots may be provided in before an EV_SYN event.</p>
<p>As with <a class="el" href="group__bits.html">Querying device capabilities</a>, the logical state of the device as seen by the library depends on the caller using <a class="el" href="group__events.html#gabb96c864e836c0b98788f4ab771c3a76" title="Get the next event from the device.">libevdev_next_event()</a>.</p>
<p>The Linux kernel requires all axes on a device to have a semantic meaning, matching the axis names in linux/input.h. Some devices merely export a number of axes beyond the available axis list. For those devices, the multitouch information is invalid. Specifically, if a device provides the ABS_MT_SLOT axis AND also the ABS_RESERVED axis, the device is not treated as multitouch device. No slot information is available and the ABS_MT axis range for these devices is treated as all other EV_ABS axes.</p>
<p>Note that because of limitations in the kernel API, such fake multitouch devices can not be reliably synced after a SYN_DROPPED event. libevdev ignores all ABS_MT axis values during the sync process and instead relies on the device to send the current axis value with the first event after SYN_DROPPED. </p>
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<p>Fetch the current value of the code for the given slot. </p>
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<dl class="section return"><dt>Returns</dt><dd>If the device supports this event code, the return value is non-zero and value is set to the current value of this axis. Otherwise, or if the event code is not an ABS_MT_* event code, 0 is returned and value is unmodified.</dd></dl>
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<p>Get the currently active slot. </p>
<p>This may differ from the value an ioctl may return at this time as events may have been read off the fd since changing the slot value but those events are still in the buffer waiting to be processed. The returned value is the value a caller would see if it were to process events manually one-by-one.</p>
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<p>Get the number of slots supported by this device. </p>
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<p>Return the current value of the code for the given slot. </p>
<p>The return value is undefined for a slot exceeding the available slots on the device, for a code that is not in the permitted ABS_MT range or for a device that does not have slots.</p>
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