Multi touch monitors
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Anyone got a multi touch monitor ? Any recommendations ? I want to start playing with Surface. I can't find many available here in AU and I can't find any decent info on how many touch points they have. I want it to have at least 6, a lot seem to only offer 2.....
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Anyone got a multi touch monitor ? Any recommendations ? I want to start playing with Surface. I can't find many available here in AU and I can't find any decent info on how many touch points they have. I want it to have at least 6, a lot seem to only offer 2.....
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I was only aware of HP/Compaq but according to this[^] Dell do one too.
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I was only aware of HP/Compaq but according to this[^] Dell do one too.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Thanks - I've found these sort of pages too, but what I want to know is, does multi touch mean 2 touches, or 10 ? I want to experiment with an app that would have 2 and 3 finger swipes doing something different to 1 finger swipe, so 2 touch points won't cut it for me. I found a wiki page, and it didn't list many at all with more than 2 points. I am hoping there's more out there.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Thanks - I've found these sort of pages too, but what I want to know is, does multi touch mean 2 touches, or 10 ? I want to experiment with an app that would have 2 and 3 finger swipes doing something different to 1 finger swipe, so 2 touch points won't cut it for me. I found a wiki page, and it didn't list many at all with more than 2 points. I am hoping there's more out there.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Well the DataSheet for this[^] (link in box at top/right) says:
Unlike other technologies which only recognize a single touch point, optical touch recognizes multiple inputs.
but then goes on to say
So whether you touch your fingertip to the panel to scroll through screens or use two fingers to replace your mouse as you perform common multi-touch gestures, with multi-touch technology, your inputs will be recognized quickly, accurately and without drift. You can also easily rotate position, shrink and enlarge documents or navigate media rich 3D content.
So I guess that you would need to ask them for specifics.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Well the DataSheet for this[^] (link in box at top/right) says:
Unlike other technologies which only recognize a single touch point, optical touch recognizes multiple inputs.
but then goes on to say
So whether you touch your fingertip to the panel to scroll through screens or use two fingers to replace your mouse as you perform common multi-touch gestures, with multi-touch technology, your inputs will be recognized quickly, accurately and without drift. You can also easily rotate position, shrink and enlarge documents or navigate media rich 3D content.
So I guess that you would need to ask them for specifics.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
I found a mob in Australia that sells only monitors, so I wrote to ask them.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Thanks - I've found these sort of pages too, but what I want to know is, does multi touch mean 2 touches, or 10 ? I want to experiment with an app that would have 2 and 3 finger swipes doing something different to 1 finger swipe, so 2 touch points won't cut it for me. I found a wiki page, and it didn't list many at all with more than 2 points. I am hoping there's more out there.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I think Surface means the actual hardware. And I think that is supposed to support something like 50 touches (according to the deep recesses of the unreliable part of my mind).
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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I think Surface means the actual hardware. And I think that is supposed to support something like 50 touches (according to the deep recesses of the unreliable part of my mind).
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Surface is the name of the Microsoft framework. It sits on top of DirectX, or WPF. How many touches the monitors support can vary, that's why I am chasing details before I buy.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Surface is the name of the Microsoft framework. It sits on top of DirectX, or WPF. How many touches the monitors support can vary, that's why I am chasing details before I buy.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
Surface is the name of the Microsoft framework.
Wikipedia explains:
Microsoft Surface (codename Milan) is a multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology
You sure it doesn't require specific hardware?
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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Christian Graus wrote:
Surface is the name of the Microsoft framework.
Wikipedia explains:
Microsoft Surface (codename Milan) is a multi-touch product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology
You sure it doesn't require specific hardware?
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
It requires a multi touch monitor. Any multi touch monitor will do, as far as I am aware. I suspect it's like any hardware, there's a driver layer that turns the specific hardware in to something Windows can talk to.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Anyone got a multi touch monitor ? Any recommendations ? I want to start playing with Surface. I can't find many available here in AU and I can't find any decent info on how many touch points they have. I want it to have at least 6, a lot seem to only offer 2.....
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Anyone got a multi touch monitor ? Any recommendations ? I want to start playing with Surface. I can't find many available here in AU and I can't find any decent info on how many touch points they have. I want it to have at least 6, a lot seem to only offer 2.....
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Before you spend too much time developing apps for a multi-touch monitor I would suggest reading up on why many software houses do not develop apps for multi-touch monitors. The reason is that users develop something called gorrila-arm after about 15 minutes and it has been found that while tablets are ok multi-touch monitors are not a good idea... article clickety[^] This is probably why there are not many multi-touch monitors in existence...
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