Multi-Point application
lazarus / 8-Other

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LinPix · 2009-11-04 14:34

Hello,
I was wondering if we can have access to Multi-point functions under
Lazarus. Now, we have Windows 7 which can be Multi-point and Linux can
have it thanks to MPX . It would be really nice if if we could use it
in Lazarus. Do you think it's hard to implement ?

Thanks

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Marc · 2009-11-05 13:14

Can windows 7 ? How ?

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LinPix · 2009-11-07 10:32

Well, I guess if you have any multi-touch device. I've never try it
but, you see everywhere on the web that windows 7 can do it. I don't
think you can plug two mouses and have two cursors on the screen like
mpx, but if you have a touch screen (able of multi-point) you can have
it. (They say windows have multi-point there :
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/products/features/touch)

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Marc · 2009-11-07 10:57

Yaeh... I thought they planned but skipped it.
However the movie they show, only shows touch, no multitouch

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LinPix · 2009-11-07 21:47

Yeah, I'm quite sure there is Multi-Point, (you can see on youtube
guys playing with Paint on a touchscreen with two fingers at the same
time).
Firefox is planning to support Multi-Point (I think it's for the
version 3.6) and there's already a prototype (developed by a Brazilian
student) which work well under Windows 7. Pfff... I really wonder how
he does that  .
But never mind, it would have be nice to play around with it and would
have be useful in my program but it's a bit earlier I think. Maybe
someone would implement it in the futur  .

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Marc · 2009-11-08 17:16

I've been playing with it this weekend. Since I've no real multitouch
device, I needed to emulate it [1].
I've no real win7 installation, but only one inside a VM. What appears
is that the VM mouse won't work with the emulator. An attached
bluetooth mouse did. So in theory with another mouse it should work.
To be continued...


[1] http://multitouchvista.codeplex.com