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Input Events Library Reference
The Input Events library provides the framework necessary for Screen Graphics Subsystem to communicate with your touch driver.
Input Events Library Overview
parseopts.h
Helper functions to parse the options from the mtouch section of graphics.conf.

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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 Input Events library provides the framework necessary for Screen Graphics Subsystem to communicate with your touch driver.
    - Writing a Touch Driver
      In order for Screen to be able to detect events from your touch controller, you need to provide a driver for your touch controller.
    - Input Events Library Overview
      - event_types.h
        Enumerations and structures for input events.
      - mtouch_driver.h
        Functions that are to be implemented by the mtouch driver and are called by libinputevents to fetch the data required to transform the device data into mtouch events.
      - mtouch_log.h
        Function and Macros that print mtouch log information.
      - mtouch_params.h
        Enumerations and Structures for mtouch parameters.
      - parseopts.h
        Helper functions to parse the options from the mtouch section of graphics.conf.
        input_parseopts()
        Parse the argument options
        input_parse_bool()
        Parse an option of the type boolean
        input_parse_double()
        Parse an option of the type double
        input_parse_signed()
        Parse an option of the type integer
        input_parse_string()
        Parse an option of the type string
        input_parse_unsigned()
        Parse an option of the type unsigned integer
      - screen_helpers.h
        Helper functions for Screen input events.
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    If you are integrating a new display, you must configure and provide the parameters of your display based on its specifications via the OpenWF Display Configuration API (Wfdcfg Library).
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    The OpenWF Display Server (wfd-server) is a resource manager that provides applications the ability to show image buffers directly to the display controller via the OpenWF Display API.
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    QNX Screen Graphics Subsystem is a graphics framework that provides all the functionality necessary to develop interactive user experiences.
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    The video capture framework provides applications the ability to capture frames from a video input source. These frames can be passed to a graphics component such as Screen for display.
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parseopts.h

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Helper functions to parse the options from the mtouch section of graphics.conf.

The parseopts.h header file defines the helper functions that are used to parse the options from the mtouch section of the configuration file, graphics.conf.

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