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All posts tagged "multitouch"


Monday, July 5, 2010

Adding MultiTouch to your WP7 Apps

Posted by Jon Westfall in "Windows Phone Developer" @ 10:00 AM

http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/201...ion+(GalaSoft))

If you're interested in adding multitouch to your Windows Phone 7 apps, Laurent Bugnion has the information you need. Check out his videos and add some "touching motions" to your apps today!


Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Multitouch On Resistive Screens? Make It So!

Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "Windows Phone Software" @ 05:00 AM

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/...ouch-other-win/

"This latest bit of wunder-code isn't a full new image, rather a tiny WinMo app that does something magical: enables multitouch on single-touch resistive screens. How? Sadly developer OndraSter isn't saying just yet, but it relies on leaving one finger in place and moving the other, so perhaps it detects a jump in touch position and treats it as a pinch gesture."

I'm not sure I haven't heard of something like this before, but in any case it's great to have the option when you want to. There's no argument that capacitive screens bring that little bit extra in terms of responsiveness and senstitivity in interacting with screen elements, but for some things only a stylus (and ergo, a resistive screen) will do. Anything that improves the flexibility and usability of resisitve screens is therefore something I will be watching with interest - here's hoping this little app hits the streets.


Friday, April 23, 2010

Multitouch on a Resistive HTC Device

Posted by Jon Westfall in "Windows Phone Software" @ 12:00 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/...multitouch-too/

""Multitouch on a resistive screen?" We must be joking, right? Not at all -- if we've learned anything from our encounters with a little firm named Stantum, resistive multitouch is not only possible, but potentially preferable to its capacitive counterpart. Of course, that knowledge doesn't help you any if you're currently stuck with single finger commands, but if your phone is made by HTC and running Windows Mobile, you may one day get to see what two digit input feels like. Adel Al Zubeir figured out that when two fingers are placed on a single-touch screen, the digitizer reads the spot between the two... and with a little bit of math, he cooked up a program that can figure out the relative position of both fingers to allow vaguely useful pinch-to-zoom and other dual-touch gestures."

You know what the sad part of this post is? The following 3 words: "Proof of concept". So yes, pseudo-multitouch is possible on Windows Mobile. But each and every one of your favorite software apps would need to enable it for you to be able to use it.


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