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On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 14:46 -0500, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> How do people feel about including an event for multi-touch "gestures" on a touchpad?
> OS X has these, and I'm guessing they're a native part of the iPhone
> interface as well. I think Windows supports these too in some form.
> Having an interface for this will probably be useful for people who
> want to target the iPhone as well as a regular machine, but I can see
> uses for it on a regular computer as well.
> OS X allows you to easily detect gestures that it knows about. These
> are "rotate" (twist), "zoom in/out" (pinch/spread) and
> "swipe" (multi-finger scrolling).
>
I think it might be a good idea, but I would not make it a new event
type, instead just some extra mouse buttons. That would make it very
easy to have users configure those gestures in a game's config screen.
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Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx>