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I’ve read the code of the last stable release of the processing.js library and, as I imagined, since the port is port of the "processing" programming language, there is no sign of support of pointer-events, which would be useful in web sketches.

After a long search I found a series of tutorials on the channel9 website (http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Sketchbooktutorial) called "Creative Coding with Processing.js for Windows 8 JavaScript applications". They use a custom version of the library: it is called processing_rt and it supports the following events

pointerDown, pointerMove, pointerUp, pointerCancel, pointerOver, pointerOut

Is there another, less custom version of the processing.js library that implements these events? If not, would it be "production-safe" to use the processing_rt library?

From the W3C Pointer Events Draft

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  • Perhaps I've misunderstood your question, but aren't those available in pure processingjs? http://processingjs.org/reference/ lists mouseMove, mousePressed, mouseReleased, mouseOver, and mouseOut, and I'm not sure what "pointerCancel" means. – kevinsa5 Feb 17 '14 at 23:59
  • The official version of processingjs only offers the mouse events. Pointer events are an abstraction that let you work with different pointer types (as [multi]touch, mouse and pen, even at the same time) through a single, coherent API. – Giovanni Filardo Feb 18 '14 at 19:15
  • I see, interesting. Thanks for the clarification. Sorry, but I don't know anything past that. Good luck! – kevinsa5 Feb 18 '14 at 20:48

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Is there another, less custom version of the processing.js library that implements these events?

No.

If not, would it be "production-safe" to use the processing_rt library?

No.

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