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Gestures Library Reference
The Gestures library provides gesture recognizers to detect gestures through touch events that occur when you place one or more fingers on a touch screen.
Gestures Library Reference
The Gestures library primarily provides gesture recognizers to detect gestures through mtouch events that occur when you place one or more fingers on a touch screen.
types.h
Common data types and helper functions.
max_displacement_abs()
Calculate the maximum displacement between two gesture events

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    The Gestures library provides gesture recognizers to detect gestures through touch events that occur when you place one or more fingers on a touch screen.
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      The Gestures library provides gesture recognizers to detect gestures through touch events that occur when you place one or more fingers on a touch screen.
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      Gesture recognition is performed by gesture recognizers that detect gestures through touch events.
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        Definition of the double tap gesture.
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        Definition of the triple tap gesture.
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        Definition of the two finger pan gesture.
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        diff_time_ms()
        Return the elapsed time between two events
        gesture_add_mustfail()
        Add a gesture to the 'must fail' list
        gesture_base
        Common data structure for all gestures
        gesture_base_init()
        Initialize the gesture base data structure
        gesture_base_t
        Common data structure for all gestures
        gesture_callback_f
        Gesture callback function prototype
        gesture_coords_t
        Gesture coordinates
        gesture_e
        Gesture type enumeration
        gesture_funcs_t
        Touch event handling functions
        gesture_state_e
        Gesture state enumeration
        map_contact_id()
        Remap the contact id from the touch evemt
        max_displacement_abs()
        Calculate the maximum displacement between two gesture events
        save_coords()
        Save the touch event coordinates
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max_displacement_abs()

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Calculate the maximum displacement between two gesture events

Synopsis:

#include <gestures/types.h>

uint32_t max_displacement_abs(gesture_coords_t *coords1,
                              gesture_coords_t *coords2)

Arguments:

coords1: A pointer to the first gesture event.
coords2: A pointer to the second gesture event.

Library:

libgestures

Description:

This function returns the the maximum displacement, in pixels, between two gesture events. For example, if the absolute value of the difference between the x coordinates of the two gestures is greater than the absolute value of the difference between the y coordinates, the former is returned by the function. You will likely need this function only if you are defining your own gestures.

Returns:

The maximum displacement, in pixels.

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