Is this a bug or feature?

[B. Jack]

Every time I click the right mouse button a dot appears and moves on the screen (with the right button held down) and remains, and is stationary, on screen after I release the button.
If I repeat the process another dot will appear and many widgets will stop responding to events until the dots are clicked on with the left button.  These dots have something
to do with the red touch cursor since they appear in front of everything and cannot be cleared except by clicking on them again one-by-one.

What functionality have I stumbled upon?
It makes handling touch events for other than the left button troublesome (like if you want right button to pop up a menu for instance a dot will remain).

[Mathieu Virbel]

Hi,

This is a feature of Kivy, you can simulate multitouch with right click.
You cannot disable this feature yet (available only in master)

http://kivy.org/docs/api-kivy.input.providers.mouse.html#disabling-multitouch-interaction-with-mouse

Remember that poping a menu on right click limit the usage of your
application with mouse only. Any touch based device will not work :)

Mathieu

[Mathieu Virbel]

Hi,

This is the multitouch mouse simulator.
Read
http://kivy.org/docs/api-kivy.input.providers.mouse.html#disabling-multitouch-interaction-with-mouse
if you want to disable it.

Mathieu

On 10/06/2012 19:35, B. Jack wrote:

[Jess L]

I find this page to be very confusing. I'm on a Windows 7 machine and would like to disable this 'feature'. I guess I'm confused about what it's referring to when it says update Mouse Configuration.

[John Perry]

If anyone else is led to this page, check here: https://kivy.org/doc/stable/api-kivy.config.html

[elli...@cox.net]

To disable the "red dot":

from kivy.config import Config

Config.set('input', 'mouse', 'mouse,disable_multitouch')

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