[Bf-committers] Basic touch support for Windows/Linux

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Mike,

I don't understand - this basic version of touch is just to support 2-finger swipes. Real gestures (pinch, rotate, etc) is another topic.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 6 Feb, 2013, at 4:04, Mike Erwin wrote:

> Hey Ton & all,
> 
> I spent the past two weekends working on this for Windows actually,
> inspired by your Mac trackpad goodness! The code came together fine, but...
> never gets called on the hardware I have. Tested on Wacom Intuos5 and
> Logitech T650 under Windows 7. From what I understand, the WM_GESTURE
> message (which we can turn into GHOST events) can not be generated by
> 3rd-party hardware vendors, until Microsoft sorts it out. It supposedly
> works with touchscreens, but I don't have one to test. Wacom has a touch
> API for their stuff, but I can't find any more info for the T650.
> 
> Another issue is that the Windows touch/gesture APIs are for Win7 and up,
> so if anyone knows a good way to include those but still be able to
> build/run on WinXP, please share it.
> 
> I'll post the short code segment if someone can get it to work.
> 
> Mike Erwin
> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On macs, 2-finger swipes (trackpads, tablets) now get handled nicely. It
>> sends "trackpad events" from Ghost to blender, to work as smooth as MMB
>> view manipulations.
>> 
>> On Blender side code is all fine, but I need someone in Windows and Linux
>> to get the Ghost code sending out the right events for it. (Instead of
>> scrollwheel events, to send trackpad).
>> 
>> It should have been done in bcon3, I know - but it's probably just 2-3
>> lines in ghost to send the events! And needs tests :)
>> 
>> -Ton-
>> 
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