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If a second finger or a palm touches the pad and the first finger lifts, the drag carries on with the second one and draws a line across the pad to it.

End the stroke when the finger that started it lifts, and ignore the rest of that drag. If the first finger lifts before the drag starts, a drag started by another finger draws nothing.
Added two-finger UI tests.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Taps within the canvas now register as completed dot gestures.
    • When the active finger lifts or changes, drawing continues from the other finger as a separate stroke. This preserves stroke boundaries and prevents ink from connecting the two fingers.

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SignaturePad now treats taps within the canvas as completed dot gestures. Drag strokes track their starting pointer and ignore movement from replacement fingers. New tests cover multi-touch stroke endings and pointer changes.

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SignaturePad gesture handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track the stroke pointer and validate multi-touch endings
signaturepad/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/seanproctor/signaturepad/SignaturePad.kt, signaturepad/src/jvmTest/kotlin/com/seanproctor/signaturepad/SignaturePadGestureTest.kt
SignaturePad starts and continues a drag only for its original pointer. It ends an active stroke when another pointer takes over and ignores that pointer’s movement. Tests cover the stroke endpoint when the first finger lifts, retention of its last segment, and no ink when another finger starts dragging.

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Change: Bug fix

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A signature can appear or save incomplete while a second finger remains on the pad. This is a narrow, recoverable multi-touch issue that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 037bb

The change appears contained to gesture handling and reduces unintended drawing from a second finger. No new security boundary or privileged operation was identified, though integrations that provide their own signature state may observe a different stroke-completion sequence.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The directly evidenced exposure is touch input and captured stroke data within a pad instance. Downstream uses of exported signatures and their security significance are not established by the available evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The changed pointer-identity checks prevent a replacement pointer’s drag or lift position from being forwarded as stroke movement. The inspected path contains no authentication or tenant boundary.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The built-in state tolerates repeated completion through its pending-point reset. The public contract does not establish the same property for caller-supplied states, but no security-sensitive custom implementation or introduced exploit path was identified.
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I would say that the drawing should continue on the new finger. There's a lot of corner cases, like thumbs and palms accidentally touching the screen. I would say the current behavior of jumping from where one finger lifts off to where another one was already on the screen is obviously wrong. When a second finger hits the pad before the first one is lifted, I think the second one should start drawing once the first one is lifted. I wouldn't necessarily be opposed two fingers drawing simultaneously. I have a lot of old people using this. If they hold the tablet in one hand with their thumb on the pad and sign with the other, it would be an improvement to have that signing work.

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`@signaturepad/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/seanproctor/signaturepad/SignaturePad.kt`:
- Around line 83-85: Update the pointer-up handling in detectDragGestures so
lifting the starting pointer immediately completes the stroke, even if another
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state.gestureEnded(), ensuring drawSignature() and serialized state include the
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Comment on lines +83 to +85
if (up.id != strokePointer) {
if (strokePointer != null) state.gestureEnded()
return@detectDragGestures

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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sed -n '60,225p' signaturepad/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/seanproctor/signaturepad/SignaturePadState.kt
sed -n '45,145p' signaturepad/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/seanproctor/signaturepad/SignaturePad.kt
rg -n 'drawSignature|signature|save|export|onSigned|gestureEnded' sample* signaturepad/src/commonMain 2>/dev/null | head -90

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Complete the stroke when the starting pointer lifts.

When a second pointer remains down, onDragEnd waits for that pointer to lift. The starting pointer’s up event is not delivered to onDrag, so its final position is lost. gestureEnded() also remains deferred. During this delay, the pending stroke tail is absent from drawSignature() and serialized state. Complete the stroke at the starting pointer’s up event instead.

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In
`@signaturepad/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/seanproctor/signaturepad/SignaturePad.kt`
around lines 83 - 85, Update the pointer-up handling in detectDragGestures so
lifting the starting pointer immediately completes the stroke, even if another
pointer remains down. Apply the final position from that up event before calling
state.gestureEnded(), ensuring drawSignature() and serialized state include the
completed stroke tail.

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Sorry, @Bayram-MKININI: I accidentally force-pushed a commit from master to your branch, which made GitHub close this PR. Your commit, rebased on master, is continued in #27 along with a follow-up that starts a new stroke on the finger that takes over. Your fix/single-finger branch now points at a master commit, so you can reset or delete it.

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