Specifications

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1.8 Touch Panel
The terminal is equipped with a capacitive touch panel, and it can be pressed 6 points
simultaneously, and input of finger and the digitizer pen are available.
Due to this, simultaneous finger and pen inputing is possible.
“Tool Type” can be retrieved by using getToolType() method of MotionEvent class. By the "Tool
Type", you can recognise what tools is used for inputing.
Table 1.12
Tool Type Input type
TYPE_FINGER Finger
TYPE_MOUSE Mouse
TYPE_STYLUS Digitizer pen
TYPE_UNKNOWN Others
Input button status can be retrieved by using getButtonState() method of MotionEvent class.
Table 1.13
Tool Type Input type
BUTTON_PRIMARY Primary button (left mouse button)
BUTTON_SECONDARY
Secondary button (right mouse button, stylus
first button).
BUTTON_TERTIARY
Tertiary button (middle mouse button, stylus
second button).
BUTTON_BACK Back button pressed (mouse back button).
BUTTON_FORWARD
Forward button pressed (mouse forward
button).
The functions of the android API related with the “Touch Panel“ are as shown below.
android.view.MotionEvent
: The class that operate the motion event of mouse, pen, finger,
trackball.
Please refer to the official web site "Android Developers" for details of android API.