multi-touch

How to develop multi-touch applications in Java?

Anticipating the day when multi-touch interfaces become more pervasive, are there libraries in Java that can be used for developing touch applications? I'm looking for interfaces similar to MouseListener / MouseMotionListener / MouseWheelListener. ...

how the iphone multi-touch event triggered?

I read the SDK document, but can not understand some detail, need some help. for the touchesEnded: -(void)touchesEnded:(NSSet*)touches withEvent:(UIEvent*)event 1) what's the difference between touches and [event allTouches]? 2) If user release one finger, but still other fingers on screen, does the later event still contains the fing...

Is there real value in multi-touch interface for a desktop?

I was lucky enough recently to be involved in a Surface project at Microsoft writing an educational game for an upcoming "trade show". I can really see how the collaborative nature and natural interaction of the Surface could be huge in the education space, I really can't get excited by touch or multi-touch on a "normal" machine. I can ...

Multi-touch mouse gestures on EeePC

I have an EeePC 900 running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. The touchpad has some simple multi-touch gestures built in - scrolling by dragging with two fingers instead of one for example. How would I detect multi-touch events in an OpenGL/C application? Is the touchpad on the EeePC 900 capable of handling rotational and scaling gestures? Th...

Multi-touch design and interaction pattern, do you have any link ?

Hi, I develop a collaborative business application on a multi-touch device like Microsoft Surface. However to my mind every collaborative application on a multi-touch device was made to share photos, to draw, to play, or for one person at time. So, I have no reference and I'm having a hard time to imagine how multiple users can work on ...

iphone simulator using multi-touch problem

i know in iphone simulator to input using multi-touch, hold down the OPT key while using the mouse. will see two virtual fingertips.and move the mouse to pinch in and out. my problem is in simulator,these two fingertips will only be overlap at the center all the time, if i jus want move one finger and another finger fix at a point,rathe...

iPhone SDK: How Do You Store a Coordinate Pair generated during a touch event?

I'm trying to create a rotating object for the iPhone. I have it calculating all the trig. The problem is that for my project I have need to have the program reset the x and y every time a finger is dragged more over then 30 degrees around the center point. Whenever I link a variable to the x and y of the current location within the touc...

Zoom in/out gesture UIView

Hi, i've been trying to capture gesture zoom in/out in a UIView. Code: NSSet *allTouches = [event allTouches]; NSArray *twoTouches = [allTouches allObjects]; UITouch *first = [twoTouches objectAtIndex:0]; UITouch *second = [twoTouches objectAtIndex:1]; CGPoint firstPoint = [first locationInView:self]; CGPoint secondPoint = [second lo...

Developing for Windows Multi touch - ala the Dell Studio One 19

hey guys I came across the Dell Studio One 19 on the web the other day, and wondered what the Dev environment for the Multi-Touch was? Anyone out there developing for this, or know what the environment is? I know that to develop for the HP TouchSmart you need HP's own SDK....and it doesn't sound too good to me (check out this .NET Roc...

Way to make a UIButton continuously fire during a press-and-hold situation?

You know how Mario just keeps running to the right when you press and hold the right-button on the D-Pad? In the same manner, I want my UIButton to continuously fire its action for the duration that it is held down. Is this possible for a UIButton? If not, is this possible to do with a UIImageView by overriding a touch handling method in...

iPhone: Tracking/Identifying individual touches

I have a quick question regarding tracking touches on the iPhone and I seem to not be able to come to a conclusion on this, so any suggestions / ideas are greatly appreciated: I want to be able to track and identify touches on the iphone, ie. basically every touch has a starting position and a current/moved position. Touches are stored ...

How to simulate touch event ?

as topic , I want fire touch event without user touch actions , does it possible ? thanks for your help in advance . Thanks . ...

How to do pinch gestures on the iPhone?

How does one implement pinch gestures on the iPhone? I'm familiar with using touch events on the iPhone but I'm extremely lazy and don't want to re-invent the wheel for something as widespread as PINCH gestures...Source code or links thereto would be helpful. ...

After displaying and dismissing the Modal View Controller UIImagePickerController my Cocos2d iPhone app doesn't see multiple touches anymore

I have an app where I display the photo chooser (UIImagePickerController) but after the user dismisses it only single touches are working. And I think I know the root of the issue, but I don't know how to solve it... Before I show the modal dialog the stack during a touch is as follows: ... #3 0x00074de0 in -[EAGLView touchesBegan:wit...

WPF supports touch or multi-touch screen?

Hello everyone, I am wondering whether WPF on .Net 3.5 supports touch or multi-touch for laptop? Appreciate if there are some cool Demos to show the effect. I am using VSTS2008 + C#. thanks in advance, George ...

tracking two fingers with TouchesMoved

Suppose I have two fingers touching iPhone's screen but just one is moving. TouchesMoved will just show one finger (event). How do I know which of the two fingers TouchesMoved is referring too? ...

Detecting multitouch iPhone-like "tap" on MacBookPro

After a period of iPhone work, I'm once again working on normal Cocoa apps on my MBP and I miss the "tap" gesture. I know that I can turn on the incredibly annoying "Tap to Click", feature in the Trackpad control pannel, but I don't want a click, I want a tap. I know it's probably not mac canon, but is it possible to receive this multi-...

Testing Windows 7 multitouch on a dev machine without multitouch?

Is there a way to test the multitouch capability of an application using a non-multitouch enabled machine? I'd like to simulate user input for zoom, scaling and rotating during runtime. This is for a WPF application written in C#. ...

Two Finger Click Event using Windows 7 Multi-Touch

We would like 2 code samples (C# would be great) of Windows 7 multitouch functionality using .NET 3.5 sp1 and the ManipulationProcessor: A two finger click sample – An event should be raised when a user “clicks” on a UIElement such as a Rectangle using 2 fingers simultaneously (Close together). The click event should be fired when the...

touch screen programming issue

Hello everyone, Suppose I have a touch screen which supports single finger touch, is it very hard to use software based solution (e.g. programming to detect multi-finger touch and movement) to make the touch screen support multi-touch? Just like I bought a cheap single finger touch cell phone and through programming I make it work as i...