Synaptics multitouch.

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi,

This article's very interesting:

   http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-touchpad/

Looks like Synaptics touchpads can detect (up to three?) fingers
independently.  This would allow us to start prototyping multitouch
software using normal laptops.

- Chris.
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Re: Synaptics multitouch.

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi,

Looks like Synaptics touchpads can detect (up to three?) fingers
independently.  This would allow us to start prototyping multitouch
software using normal laptops.

Ah, looks like I'm wrong.  It can detect how many fingers are held down
-- which means that you can specify gestures that only fire when the
required number of fingers are down -- but there's only one set of x/y
coordinates coming from the touchpad rather than one set per finger.

- Chris.
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