Device class and msPointer

[benny!]

Hi,

 

the Device class by phaser (refer to line 339) sets the touch property to true on IE10, Windows7, because of the msPOinterEnabled property.

if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement || window.navigator.msPointerEnabled) {

      this.touch = true;

}

This confuses me since no touch events are fired. As I can read in the msdn - our lovely friends from M$, fires pointer events instead of touch events. Besides, in my case, no pointer device is attached anyway, and only normal mouse events are triggered.

 

So, my question is - is it correct to equalize pointer events with touch events? 

 

How do you guys handle pointer events?

 

Thanks for any enlightenment ;-)

 

Best,

benny!

[benny!]

Add:

 

Just read here that:

 

Since MSPointer events automatically elevate to Mouse events if they aren't handled,..

 

 

So, if this is true - I recommend to wether divide into three categories (touch, mouse, msPointer) or handle msPointer more like the 'mouse' category instead of 'touch'.

 

Any thoughts?

[rich]

I updated that line of code this morning after doing some Surface testing! Here is the current dev branch version:

        if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement || (window.navigator.maxTouchPoints && window.navigator.maxTouchPoints > 1)) {            this.touch = true;        }

Even this isn't 100% bulletproof as I guess it's technically possible to have a single supported touch event on a screen, but hey it's the best we've got for now!

 

The only way to be 100% sure is to check the event.pointerType value you get from the browser event. It can be "touch", "pen" or "mouse".

[benny!]

Thanks a lot Rich. Really valuable information since I do not own a Surface device by myself. I will try out your code later. Thanks again!