Getting iPhone touch coordinates without using javascript events?

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Published on 2010-05-28T00:58:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 1:01 UTC
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Is there any way to get iPhone coordinates without relying on javascript callback events? touchmove generates way too many events to be used in any kind of tight loop (like a game), and without multi-threading, the only option would seem to be non-event driven input coordinates.

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