Archived:How to check for touch support in PySymbian

Article Metadata

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Tested with

Devices(s): Nokia N95, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

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Compatibility

Platform(s): S60 3rd Edition, S60 5th Edition

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Article

Keywords: appuifw

Created: (24 Mar 2009)

Last edited: gaba88 (01 Sep 2009)

Overview

This snippet shows how to check whether a device has touch support in Python.

Preconditions

This API is available in S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition and was introduced in PyS60 1.9.3.

Source code

import appuifw
 
 
#A try statement is used to prevent the code from crashing on versions prior to 1.9.3
try:
	if appuifw.touch_enabled():
		appuifw.note(u"Touch is supported")
	else:
		appuifw.note(u"Touch is not supported")
except:
	appuifw.note(u"Feature is not available")

Postconditions

A message indicating the availability of touch is displayed.