[elm-discuss] Announce: new package (elm-mouse-events), major update (elm-touch-events)

[Matthieu Pizenberg]

Hi all,

Since I often need coordinates of mouse events and was getting tired of
recoding the
json encoders / decoders for each project, I made a package for this:
mpizenberg/elm-mouse-events
<http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/mpizenberg/elm-mouse-events/latest>.

The main differences from mbr/elm-mouse-events
<http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/mbr/elm-mouse-events/latest> are:
- mbr's is better fit to handle mouse "behaviors" like click, double click,
... while I'm focused on the three main events (down, move, up).
- mbr's provides client, and target positions. I chose to provide client,
offset positions and the movement since those better fit my usage.
- I also provides the status of the alt, ctrl and shift keys.

In the meantime, after multiple months of usage of my elm-touch-events
package, and feedback from Ian (thanks) I rewrote completely the package.
The new API is much simpler than previously and more intuitive, I hope.

The main difference with knledg/touch-events
<http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/knledg/touch-events/latest> is that
mpizenberg/elm-touch-events
<http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/mpizenberg/elm-touch-events/latest>
supports multitouch interactions.

Don't hesitate to give me feedback on any of those two here, through slack
(user mattpiz) or github issues.
Thanks :)