rust-windowing / rust-windowing/winit
Input event timestamps
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- Rust
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Description
On most OSes, a timestamp is provided alongside with the input event. It could be exposed as an Option or we can just fallback to the time the poll have been executed.
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Begin with the platform input-event handling and polling path; the issue names no files or tests. Determine whether OS-provided timestamps can be exposed as an Option or whether poll time is the fallback, and verify the chosen behavior across supported OSes.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100