How to handle Samsung S-Pen button event in the browser (Javascript)?

Asked Jun 06 '20 at 17:44

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I'm developing a web app for the Galaxy Tab S3 that allows the user to draw with a Samsung S-Pen. The S-Pen has a button on the side which I know can be used by native Android applications to perform various functions. However, I am having a hard time figuring out how to identify which event gets fired in the browser when this button is pressed (or even if an event is fired?).

I have tried out all of the PointerEvents and TouchEvents and I tried identifying an event here: https://patrickhlauke.github.io/touch/

I also found nothing in the S-Pen SDK: https://developer.samsung.com/galaxy-spen-remote/overview.html

And unfortunately this post was removed: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51489489/detecting-pen-stylus-button-events-in-javascript

Does anybody know the name of the event or where I can figure this out?

edited Jun 06 '20 at 19:13

Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩

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asked Jun 06 '20 at 17:44

Xajoc8

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Any luck in finding a way to use S-Pen as input for websites? – H_end-rik Sep 24 '20 at 09:18
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None so far... I think I'll try and contact the Samsung SDK Developers and if they respond I'll post it here. – Xajoc8 Sep 25 '20 at 11:57
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Did you get back from them? – ctwhome Jul 30 '21 at 09:19
Nope. I guess more than a year is enough time for them to have responded if they wanted to :) – Xajoc8 Sep 24 '22 at 06:42

How to handle Samsung S-Pen button event in the browser (Javascript)?

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