I had a HP touchsmart Tx2 tablet for a few weeks, we extended the concepts from the codeplex project to support swipe and a touch and hold gesture.
For the keynote demo we had DeepEarth using a pinch zoom and drag pan (both redundant as the MSI somehow gets these out of the box anyway but valuable to build anyway) as well as a touch hold to change map modes, 2 finger = hybrid, 3 = road, 4 = aerial. The coolest thing was a two finger swipe to bring in the digitizer and then put it away. I also played with 3 finger swipe to hide/show minimap etc. The conclusion was it fun to play with but a tonne of work to get pretty average results. You seriously get a frame of touch information and tonnes of false points, I spent an entire night trying to throttle the results and something reasonable to turn into gestures. This was with very beta drivers on a very affordable device so hopefully it gets much better. One lesson I learnt was that a multitouch device could be anything from 2 touches up, the demo used the 22" Touchsmart's only supporting 2 points in the driver so all the 3 and 4 point combos didn't work. What we need is for really robust gestures to be created for Silverlight3, given these it would be easy to make these behaviours for set controls or use in a custom control. I did like the 2 finger swipe to show/hide a panel, play with our demo here: http://multitouch.soulsolutions.com.au/ Ping me if you want the code. From: ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com [mailto:ozsilverlight-boun...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of David Burela Sent: Thursday, 15 October 2009 3:16 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: RE: Multitouch Silverlight3 Are you going to be introducing any multi touch aspects into the deep earth controls? You mentioned on your blog that you showed the feature at TechEd (but i couldn't make it this year) David Burela Readify | Senior Developer Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 (0)407 363 860 | E: david.bur...@readify.net| W: <http://www.readify.net/> www.readify.net _____ From: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com [ozsilverli...@ozsilverlight.com] On Behalf Of John OBrien [j...@soulsolutions.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 26 August 2009 8:53 PM To: ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subject: Multitouch Silverlight3 Hey guys, anyone working with Multitouch in Silverlight3 / Windows7? I have to do a bunch of stuff this week / weekend and I'm looking for good resources. The key is that SL3 reports the multitouch events but you don't get gestures, you have to code that bit yourself and I'd like to cheat ;) I have Tim's intro post: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/07/30/silverlight-3-multi-touch-introd uction-fundamentals-basicsaspx <http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/07/30/silverlight-3-multi-touch-intro duction-fundamentals-basics.aspx> This basic behaviour project on codeplex which I could extend: http://multitouch.codeplex.com/ This library (compiled dll) on codeplex that look promising: http://miria.codeplex.com/ Any suggestions? John. _____ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: <mailto:ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com> ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com Subscribe: <mailto:ozsilverlight-subscr...@ozsilverlight.com> ozsilverlight-subscr...@ozsilverlight.com Unsubscribe: <mailto:ozsilverlight-unsubscr...@ozsilverlight.com> ozsilverlight-unsubscr...@ozsilverlight.com List FAQ: <http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight> http://www.codify.com/lists/ozsilverlight Other lists you might want to join: <http://www.codify.com/lists> http://www.codify.com/lists
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