multi-touch refers to a touch sensing surface's (trackpad or touchscreen) ability to recognize the presence of two or more points of contact with the surface (Wikipedia)
Questions tagged [multi-touch]
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Detecting various touch events in a winforms app
I have a touch screen monitor with 5 touch points. I would like to do some touch work in a new windows forms app but I'm having trouble finding resouces for this.
Is it possible to handle touch events in a winforms app? Im not just talking about…

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Does Internet Explorer 11 support Multi-Touch?
I am working on a multi-touch drawing application which works great in Chrome and Firefox, but I can't get anything from Microsoft as far as a straight forward answer goes as to whether or not multi-touch (ie: event.touches) is supported in Internet…

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How to ignore certain UITouch Points in multitouch sequence
I am working on a drawing app for ipad, I am providing full screen for drawing. So as we all now, user might write with his wrist support or by resting his hand on the screen. So my aim is to allow the user to write freely with his wrist/hand…

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Programmatically enable / disable multitouch finger input?
I have a multitoch-enabled tablet PC running Windows 7.
However, when using the stylus pen and getting too far away from the display, I often accidently hit it with my fingers which causes unwanted mouse-clicks.
The solution is navigating to…

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run js on pinch in; run different js on pinch out
I'm trying to develop an interaction I designed where an html element is y-scaled ( scaled in height ) during a pinch so that the height of the element becomes the distance between the two fingers involved in the gesture.
For now, I'm trying to…

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Split Motion Events in android 2.3 and below
I created an app which handles multiple touches simultaneously. This works perfectly fine in android 4.0 and above.
But when i run the same in android 2.3(having multi-touch support upto 4 touches), the app doesnt detects more than 1 touch.
Is…

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multiTouch android | getting Action of each touch point
I am trying to handle multiTouch in android, my plan is to use 2 fingers in the app. I know how to use one touch point, but I am not sure about how to use more than one touch point.
Here is my code, OnTouch:
public boolean onTouch(View view,…

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Improve multi touch performance on Android browsers
I need to implement pinch to zoom and drag to pan over an SVG.
This SVG gets shown at 480*480 pixels, but its real size is 1920*1920 pixels.
I went with HammerJS, and listened for pinch and drag:
$(document).hammer().on('pinch', $.throttle(30,…

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cross platform multitouch and graphics in Java with libgdx and mt4j
I have a cross platform application built with libgdx. The software is often used in conjunction with large touchscreens (like the microsoft coffee table thingy) with Windows (7 & 8) and MacOS. These screens are multitouch capable but I've only…

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Virtual Keyboard Customization
Windows 7 and 8 have a virtual keyboard. (Actually, 2 of them, but I'm talking not about an 'On Screen Keyboard' from 'Ease of Access', but a virtual keyboard for Touch and Pen input devices). I've noticed that only Internet Explorer can customize…

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Multitouch image that plays sound after a certain sequence
I am confused how to start building an application like below.
Scenario: I have an image where two bells(bell-1,bell-2) hanging like pendulum.My purpose are-
If i sweep bell-1,it will go right side and back to left side(what a pendulum does) and…

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android - why there is different Action_mask value for different devices
I have made an application which is running perfectly fine on devices below ver 4.0 or we can say ics, but above ics its not working as it have to.
In my application i was trying to make multitouch on two buttons simultaneously and it was working…

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two finger or pinc zoom to mapview in osmdroid
I need help
I'm trying to zoom to mapview by getting users multi touch points (firstly 2 finger touch)
I know there is setMultiTouchControls() function but this is not what I want to do.
I tried to explain with a picture :) it was easier than…

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android multitouch, action pointer down not working properly
i have tried to detect two touches on my two imagebuttons which is single Relative layout .
The problem is its showing action_down values on both buttons but no action pointer down value.
My code is as follows:
private int getIndex(MotionEvent…

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Google Map Touch events on HP touch screen
I'm developing a web app for an HP Compaq L2105tm touch screen on a windows 7 box. When I bring up maps.google.com in Chrome the map works just fine with pinch zooming and other touch events you'd expect from a touch screen. However, when I use…

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