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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how do i disable touchesBegan: for multi-touches?
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
I am currently getting 1 object in
touches
when I do a tap with two fingers simultaneously (holding option key and clicking on the simulator). I believe this is because I haven't…

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How to implement a two-finger double-click in Android?
I know how to detect a double-click and a two-finger touch event, but how can I combine these to react so somebody needs to double click with two fingers?
By default, Android has the long press to act as a second form of clicking, but I'm…

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How to bring up the Windows 8 on-screen keyboard in a desktop app
I have a fullscreen DirectX desktop app, and would like to display the on-screen keyboard when the user taps a textbox in my game. Is there a way to do this while in fullscreen mode?

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Strategy for differentiating TouchUp from TouchLeave, and TouchDown from TouchEnter?
For the basic scenario described in the msdn overview (under Touch and Manipulation) TouchEnter and TouchLeave are fired for every corresponding TouchDown and TouchUp respectively. Unlike the mouse, the Touch and Stylus are not constrained to…

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Is there a 3rd party library for Android Pinch Zoom
Does anybody know whether there's a 3rd paty (or built in) library that helps in detecting and handling a pinch zoom event?
Basically what I'm looking for is some class that takes coordinates from a touch event and returns whether its a pinch zoom…

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Android multitouch?
As a developer, I tend to program first then research later. I was trying to implement a screen that would handle multiple user inputs. Basically map more than just one finger. I tried two things..
I had an Activity class that implemented…

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Webkit iphone/ipad issue with mutl-touch
In a UIWebView (multi-touch enabled) I got a page with two divs (div1 and div2), each of them having registered for the touchstart and touchend events. Everytime they are receiving touch events, I am dumping the content of:
event.touches: contains…

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Pinch Zoom and 2 finger Rotation the ImageView in Android
I've a problem from last 2 days and unable to tackle it as I'm newbie. Actually I'm working on an Android App that needs pinch-zoom and 2-finger rotation on Android ImageView. I got the multiple tutorials and solutions that work fine for Pinch Zoom…

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Android multi touch can't detect 3 fingers
I am trying to detect three fingers in the same time on HTC One M10.
There is no motion called on any of this cases.
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN: return "Down";
case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE: return "Move";
case…

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How to enable touch screen emulation in Chrome devtools?
TL;DR - I've enabled touch screen emulation and it's not working. HELP.
I'm using google-chrome ver 44 on OSX and have the "Emulate touch screen" option checked in my devtools emulation tab. When holding down shift and scrolling I am expecting the…

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HTML5 canvas, palm rejection
We are trying to use html5 canvas with tablet stylus, but we have a problem with palm touching with multitouch tablets. When a person try to draw something and touch the display surface with the palm, lines occurs because of the multitouch.
Do you…

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How do I detect two fingers tap on the iPhone?
How do I detect two fingers tap on the iPhone?

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Android multi-touch support
I wonder if is the Android multi-touch support reliable? I've read it suffers from some problems.
I also wonder, how can I define custom multi-touch gestures? Like: 3 fingers rotate or 3 fingers stay static and fourth is moving.
I've come across…

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Multitouch in Linux
I have two questions:
How to simulate touch event in linux.
How to work with multitouch on Qt in Linux.

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Multi-Touch in Swing
I was under the impression that a touch screen emulated mouse events, however how would I handle multiple touch events?
I have tried adding a JPanel with a MouseMotionListener and outputting the values to the console. I however, am only getting…

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