If you cruise around the diy multitouch sites, you'll find that there
is a lot of hardware and software involved to make it work. Flash
doesn't have any kind of native multitouch support, but if you
provide it with the appropriate API to the hardware, you can do it.
http://www.multitouch.nl/
http://mikewags.blogspot.com/
http://nuigroup.com/index.php/site/index/
http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/touchlib/
I can't really say how it works in the MS product.
There are some rumors that an SDK will be released for the iPhone.
Since the iPhone has some multitouch functionality, perhaps that will
be the first place that normal people will get to play with the
concepts without having to build their own hardware or work for an MS
partner. (I would guess that the iPhone SDK will have nothing to do
with Flash, though.)
-josh
On Jun 4, 2007, at 11:04 AM, ben gomez farrell wrote:
I'm answering despite not knowing really anything about how the
technology works - but as the Microsoft Surface links got passed
around a few days ago, one of the links was a DIY multi touch
table. I only skimmed the forum link really, but it had some
screen shots of the fingers being pressed on the glass and the area
where the fingers were looked like blobs (hence they were talking
about blob detection algorithms). I think they were using some
kind of camera to point up at the table to detect where the finger
blobs were.
If some kind of video camera that can work with flash can do
whatever optically it needs to do, and AS3 is fast enough to
perform whatever blob detection algorithms they need, then it's
very much possible in flash. But you know, those are big ifs.
aren't they?
ben
Merrill, Jason wrote:
Curious, how are multi-touch events handled with Flash? Currently
isn't
even remotely possible is it? Or maybe with an ActiveX wrapper of
some
kind?
Jason Merrill
Bank of America GT&O Learning & Leadership Development
eTools & Multimedia Team
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Josh Santangelo
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Subject: [Flashcoders] commercial flash multi-touch projects?
Hello list -- this may be OT or rule-breaking, but please don't
kill me over it. I did a bit of work on the MS Surface project
on a temporary basis and had a great time with it (see
endquote.com for some info). Unfortunately due to some
technology decisions in the group, Flash devs are not really
needed anymore. I'd love to do more multi-touch work, but am not
sure who's doing work in this area combined with Flash.
If anyone is involved in or aware of projects in this area in
need of dev help, I'd love to hear about it.
thanks,
-josh
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