feat(web): Apple Pencil input on iPad with palm rejection

Read pen and finger Pointer Events in the web shell (capture phase) instead of
eframe's touch handlers, which can't tell a pen from a finger and see every
touch twice. The pen drives the pointer with its pressure and hovers; fingers
are touch contacts for pinch, two-finger pan and undo/redo taps. Once a pen
has been seen (remembered in localStorage), a finger or a resting palm never
presses a tool on the canvas, and a pen landing cancels fingers already down.
A long press drops the tool press and opens the context menu.

The page no longer scrolls, zooms or selects under touch, and the canvas
stays inside the safe areas of a full-screen app.
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gniax
2026-10-16 01:36:23 +07:00
committed by bflatastic
parent b5b9264d71
commit 51673cd098
8 changed files with 353 additions and 12 deletions
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@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@
//! - File → Open uses the browser file picker; bytes arrive asynchronously through
//! `Services::inbox`;
//! - Save / Export trigger a browser download;
//! - dropped files are read asynchronously by `web::WebShell` and delivered through the inbox.
//! - dropped files are read asynchronously by `web::WebShell` and delivered through the inbox;
//! - pen and finger input is read from Pointer Events by `pencil` (Apple Pencil pressure and
//! hover, palm rejection, fingers navigate once a pen has been seen).
//!
//! URL query flags: `?webgl` forces the WebGL2 backend instead of WebGPU; `?lang=es` (any
//! language code) stands in for the browser's languages when the interface language is Automatic.
@@ -19,6 +21,8 @@ mod fonts;
#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
mod locks;
#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
mod pencil;
#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
mod web;
#[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
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@@ -0,0 +1,230 @@
//! Pen and touch input (an iPad with an Apple Pencil): the shell reads Pointer Events itself, in
//! the capture phase, before eframe's own touch and pointer handlers, which can't tell a pen from
//! a finger and see each touch twice (as a pointer and as a touch event).
//!
//! - A pen drives egui's pointer and is a touch contact with the pen's pressure as its force (the
//! canvas reads it), so holding it still opens the context menu (egui's long touch). It hovers
//! where the pen can (Apple Pencil hover).
//! - Fingers are touch contacts: two pinch and pan the canvas, and tap to undo or redo. The first
//! finger also drives the pointer, so it taps the panels and menus; on the canvas it navigates
//! only once a pen has been seen ([`touch::set_source`]), which the page remembers.
//! - Palm rejection: while a pen is down, fingers are ignored; a pen landing cancels the fingers
//! already down (a palm resting first).
//!
//! Mouse and trackpad events (a Magic Keyboard) are left to eframe.
use std::cell::RefCell;
use std::rc::Rc;
use egui::{Event, PointerButton, Pos2, TouchDeviceId, TouchId, TouchPhase};
use vectorcraft_ui_egui::touch::{self, Source};
use wasm_bindgen::JsCast as _;
/// Where the page remembers that a pen has been seen (`localStorage`).
const PEN_SEEN_KEY: &str = "vectorcraft-pen-seen";
/// The pen's touch device (fingers use another, so egui doesn't pinch a pen with a finger).
const PEN_DEVICE: TouchDeviceId = TouchDeviceId(1);
const FINGER_DEVICE: TouchDeviceId = TouchDeviceId(2);
/// The pen and finger contacts followed, and the egui events they made since the last frame.
#[derive(Default)]
pub struct Pointers {
events: Vec<Event>,
/// The pen pressing, by pointer id.
pen: Option<i32>,
/// The fingers down, by pointer id.
fingers: Vec<i32>,
/// The contact driving egui's pointer.
primary: Option<i32>,
}
pub type SharedPointers = Rc<RefCell<Pointers>>;
impl Pointers {
/// The events since the last frame, for the frame's raw input.
pub fn take(&mut self) -> Vec<Event> {
std::mem::take(&mut self.events)
}
fn touch(&mut self, device: TouchDeviceId, id: i32, phase: TouchPhase, pos: Pos2, force: Option<f32>) {
self.events.push(Event::Touch { device_id: device, id: TouchId::from(id as u64), phase, pos, force });
}
fn press(&mut self, id: i32, pos: Pos2) {
self.primary = Some(id);
self.events.push(Event::PointerMoved(pos));
self.events.push(Event::PointerButton { pos, button: PointerButton::Primary, pressed: true, modifiers: egui::Modifiers::default() });
}
fn release(&mut self, pos: Pos2) {
self.primary = None;
self.events.push(Event::PointerButton { pos, button: PointerButton::Primary, pressed: false, modifiers: egui::Modifiers::default() });
}
/// Cancel every finger down (a palm under a pen landing).
fn cancel_fingers(&mut self, pos: Pos2) {
for id in std::mem::take(&mut self.fingers) {
self.touch(FINGER_DEVICE, id, TouchPhase::Cancel, pos, None);
if self.primary == Some(id) {
self.release(pos);
self.events.push(Event::PointerGone);
}
}
}
/// Follow one pointer event; `true` if it was the pen's or a finger's (taken from eframe).
fn feed(&mut self, kind: &str, e: &web_sys::PointerEvent, pos: Pos2, on_canvas: bool) -> bool {
let id = e.pointer_id();
match e.pointer_type().as_str() {
"pen" => {
let force = Some(e.pressure().clamp(0.0, 1.0));
match kind {
"pointerdown" => {
if !on_canvas && self.pen.is_none() {
return false;
}
set_pen_seen();
touch::set_source(Source::Pen);
self.cancel_fingers(pos);
self.pen = Some(id);
self.touch(PEN_DEVICE, id, TouchPhase::Start, pos, force);
self.press(id, pos);
}
"pointermove" if self.pen == Some(id) => {
self.touch(PEN_DEVICE, id, TouchPhase::Move, pos, force);
self.events.push(Event::PointerMoved(pos));
}
// Hovering (Apple Pencil hover): the pointer follows without pressing.
"pointermove" => {
if self.primary.is_some() {
return true;
}
if !on_canvas {
return false;
}
self.events.push(Event::PointerMoved(pos));
}
"pointerup" | "pointercancel" if self.pen == Some(id) => {
let phase = if kind == "pointerup" { TouchPhase::End } else { TouchPhase::Cancel };
self.pen = None;
self.touch(PEN_DEVICE, id, phase, pos, None);
self.release(pos);
}
// A pen leaving the hover range, or an event of a press we didn't take.
_ => {
if kind == "pointerleave" && self.primary.is_none() && on_canvas {
self.events.push(Event::PointerGone);
}
return self.pen.is_some();
}
}
true
}
"touch" => {
match kind {
"pointerdown" => {
// Palm rejection: nothing presses while the pen does.
if self.pen.is_some() {
return true;
}
if !on_canvas && self.fingers.is_empty() {
return false;
}
self.fingers.push(id);
self.touch(FINGER_DEVICE, id, TouchPhase::Start, pos, None);
if self.primary.is_none() && self.fingers.len() == 1 {
touch::set_source(Source::Finger);
self.press(id, pos);
}
}
"pointermove" if self.fingers.contains(&id) => {
self.touch(FINGER_DEVICE, id, TouchPhase::Move, pos, None);
if self.primary == Some(id) {
self.events.push(Event::PointerMoved(pos));
}
}
"pointerup" | "pointercancel" if self.fingers.contains(&id) => {
let phase = if kind == "pointerup" { TouchPhase::End } else { TouchPhase::Cancel };
self.fingers.retain(|f| *f != id);
self.touch(FINGER_DEVICE, id, phase, pos, None);
if self.primary == Some(id) {
self.release(pos);
self.events.push(Event::PointerGone);
}
}
// A rejected palm's later events, or one we never took.
_ => return self.pen.is_some() || !self.fingers.is_empty() || on_canvas,
}
true
}
_ => false,
}
}
}
/// Whether the page remembers a pen, for [`touch::set_pen_seen`] before the first frame.
pub fn restore_pen_seen() {
let seen = local_storage().and_then(|s| s.get_item(PEN_SEEN_KEY).ok().flatten()).is_some_and(|v| v == "1");
touch::set_pen_seen(seen);
}
fn set_pen_seen() {
if !touch::pen_seen()
&& let Some(s) = local_storage()
{
// Private browsing can refuse it: fingers then draw again on the next visit, no more.
let _ = s.set_item(PEN_SEEN_KEY, "1");
}
}
fn local_storage() -> Option<web_sys::Storage> {
web_sys::window()?.local_storage().ok().flatten()
}
/// Take pen and finger Pointer Events on the page from eframe into `pointers` (and the touch
/// events that follow them), for the runner's frames. Mouse events stay eframe's.
pub fn install(runner: &eframe::WebRunner, canvas: &web_sys::HtmlCanvasElement, pointers: &SharedPointers) -> Result<(), wasm_bindgen::JsValue> {
let window: web_sys::EventTarget = web_sys::window().ok_or("no window")?.into();
let options = web_sys::AddEventListenerOptions::new();
options.set_capture(true);
options.set_passive(false);
for kind in ["pointerdown", "pointermove", "pointerup", "pointercancel", "pointerleave"] {
let (pointers, canvas) = (pointers.clone(), canvas.clone());
runner.add_event_listener_ex(&window, kind, &options, move |e: web_sys::PointerEvent, runner, _| {
let on_canvas = e.target().is_some_and(|t| &t == canvas.unchecked_ref::<web_sys::EventTarget>());
let rect = canvas.get_bounding_client_rect();
let z = runner.egui_ctx().zoom_factor();
let pos = egui::pos2((e.client_x() as f32 - rect.left() as f32) / z, (e.client_y() as f32 - rect.top() as f32) / z);
if !pointers.borrow_mut().feed(kind, &e, pos, on_canvas) {
return;
}
e.stop_immediate_propagation();
// No compatibility mouse events, no text selection or magnifier.
e.prevent_default();
if kind == "pointerup" {
// Keys typed next (a Magic Keyboard) go to the app.
canvas.focus().ok();
// Safari lets a page open the share sheet, a download or the on-screen keyboard
// only during the user's gesture: handle the release now.
runner.logic();
}
runner.egui_ctx().request_repaint();
})?;
}
// The touch events behind those pointer events: eframe would see each touch a second time,
// and Safari would scroll, zoom or select.
for kind in ["touchstart", "touchmove", "touchend", "touchcancel"] {
let (pointers, canvas) = (pointers.clone(), canvas.clone());
runner.add_event_listener_ex(&window, kind, &options, move |e: web_sys::TouchEvent, _runner, _| {
let on_canvas = e.target().is_some_and(|t| &t == canvas.unchecked_ref::<web_sys::EventTarget>());
let p = pointers.borrow();
if on_canvas || p.pen.is_some() || !p.fingers.is_empty() {
e.stop_immediate_propagation();
if e.cancelable() {
e.prevent_default();
}
}
})?;
}
Ok(())
}
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@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ use vectorcraft_ui_egui::{Services, VectorcraftApp};
use wasm_bindgen::JsCast as _;
use crate::locks::WebLocks;
use crate::pencil::SharedPointers;
type Inbox = Arc<Mutex<Vec<(String, Vec<u8>)>>>;
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ struct Host {
place_inbox: PlaceInbox,
drag: DragPos,
pasted: Rc<RefCell<Pasted>>,
/// Pen and finger input read from the page's Pointer Events (`crate::pencil`).
pointers: SharedPointers,
/// The page's Web Locks for Data Recovery, started once before the first frame: a graphics
/// restart keeps them, so the tab stays the owner of its recovery area.
locks: Option<WebLocks>,
@@ -61,6 +64,7 @@ pub fn start() {
return;
};
detect_language();
crate::pencil::restore_pen_seen();
wasm_bindgen_futures::spawn_local(async move {
// Before the first frame, which looks for copies a crash left behind.
let locks = WebLocks::start(RECOVERY_PREFIX).await;
@@ -73,6 +77,7 @@ pub fn start() {
place_inbox: Arc::default(),
drag: DragPos::default(),
pasted: Rc::default(),
pointers: SharedPointers::default(),
locks,
restarts: 0,
};
@@ -96,6 +101,7 @@ async fn run(host: Host, canvas: web_sys::HtmlCanvasElement, moving: Option<Movi
// The app until the new runner takes it (still here if starting fails before).
let slot = Rc::new(RefCell::new(moving.map(|m| m.app)));
let (runner, taken, page) = (host.runner.clone(), slot.clone(), canvas.clone());
let (pointers, pen_canvas) = (host.pointers.clone(), canvas.clone());
let result = runner
.start(
canvas,
@@ -127,6 +133,9 @@ async fn run(host: Host, canvas: web_sys::HtmlCanvasElement, moving: Option<Movi
.await;
match (result, kept) {
(Ok(()), _) => {
if let Err(e) = crate::pencil::install(&runner, &pen_canvas, &pointers) {
log::error!("vectorcraft-web: no pen input: {}", js_err(e));
}
if let Some(el) = element(LOADING_ID) {
el.remove();
}
@@ -381,6 +390,7 @@ impl eframe::App for WebShell {
}
fn raw_input_hook(&mut self, _ctx: &egui::Context, raw: &mut egui::RawInput) {
raw.events.extend(self.host.pointers.borrow_mut().take());
if let Some(app) = &mut self.app {
app.raw_input_hook(raw);
}