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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Javascript touch movement, track when user swipes from edges
I need to track user touch events. I want to track when user swipes from edges.
For example when user swipes from left vertical edge I will show a menu, from right edge make an alert, and show another menu when user swipes from top.
I couldn't find…

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Android - How do I get raw touch screen information?
I'm working on a painting application for Android and I'd like to use raw data from the device's touch screen to adjust the user's paint brush as they draw. I've seen other apps for Android (iSteam, for example) where the size of the brush is based…

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How to track multiple touch events in Libgdx?
I am making a racing game using Libgdx. I want to touch the half right side of screen to speed up, at the same time without removing previous touch point touch again another on the left side of the screen to fire a shot. I am unable to detect later…

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Use ScaleGestureDetector with GestureDetector?
In my Android app I have an ImageView where I'd like the user to be able to fling it left/right/up/down to change the image (static maps) to the adjacent one. But in addition, I'd like pinch-zoom abilities and a map itself.
I can get either flinging…

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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#.

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android ndk multitouch?
im writing an application that uses only native code.
So is it possible to get multitouch events in ndk?
I feel like ive serched the whole web, but without finding anything!
Does anyone know how to do this?

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Android - How to handle two finger touch
The documentation say this about that:
A gesture starts with a motion event with ACTION_DOWN that provides
the location of the first pointer down. As each additional pointer
that goes down or up, the framework will generate a motion event with
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Android Multitouch Game
I am currently in the process of making a game where the user controls a ship with an on screen joystick on the left side of the screen and fires by tapping the right side of the screen. However, my attempts at multitouch have been unsuccessful. …

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How to detect Fingersize with IOS?
Is it possible to detect the fingersize in an IOS Application?
I've read in the documentation:
Notes: A finger on the screen affords a much different level of
precision than a mouse pointer. When a user touches the screen, the
area of contact…

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Generate and post Multitouch-Events in OS X to control the mac using an external camera
I am currently working on a research project for my university. The goal is to control a Mac using the Microsoft Kinect camera. Another student is writing the Kinect driver (which will be mounted somewhere on the ceiling or the wall behind the Mac…

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How can I enable selecting multiple collection view cells at once with multitouch?
I am writing an iOS card game. I display the player's cards in a collection view. The player can select one or more cards by tapping on them, and then press a deal button to deal the selected cards.
I want to allow the user to use multiple fingers…

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Multi-touch gesture in Sprite Kit
I'm working in Swift with Sprite-Kit using XCode 6, and I have many different nodes but for the moment I only manage to detect one finger and move one node at the same time.
I want to know how could I manage to detect multiple fingers in order to…

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Is there a way to trigger gesture events on Mac OS X?
I want to trigger multitouch gesture events on Mac OS X. Is there a way to do this? Mouse or keyboard events can be triggered with CGEventCreateMouseEvent and CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent. Is there similar low level function for multitouch…

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WM_TOUCH vs WM_POINTER
Which one should I use? I'm only using Windows 8.x, so I don't care about the fact that WM_POINTER is not backwards compatible with Windows 7 etc. I also don't care about gestures; only about raw touches. WM_POINTER's only clear advantage seems to…

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Google Maps API V3 pinch-to-zoom does not work with IE 11 on Windows 8.1 preview
Trying to use pinch-to-zoom on multitouch screen with Windows 8.1 preview and Internet Explorer 11 (IE later on) does not work with Google Maps API V3 (none of the latest versions: 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14). The expected behaviour is map zooming in and…

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