C-Touch and Windows 7

[Dave Byron]

Will the next version of Piced make use of the touch screen option in windows 7, it would be nice to be able to touch the screen instead of using a mouse.
Just a thought.


dave
:)

[Darren]

We currently have no plans to support the new multi-touch features of Windows 7. Was there anything you had in mind?

If you have a touch screen on your PC monitor, it will generally appear to PICED as if the user is using a mouse, so PICED will work with a touch screen. The only difference is that it can't tell which finger you are using (left or right click), so everything is treated as a left click.

[ashleigh]

I'm very disappointed. I had hoped it would be able to tell a finger-touch from the left hand from a finger-touch from the right hand, and behave differently.

[Dave Byron]

Got a better idea - maybe patent it - when you touch with with a finger you then roll that finger to left or right to simulate the mouse keys. its easy you have the X and Y when it touches so just have to see if the horizontal increase or decreases.

The following table describes Windows Touch gestures.
Gesture How to perform Description

Pan
Touch and drag the page with either one or two fingers.
Use panning to see another part of a page that has scroll bars. For example, you can pan to see part of a long document or spreadsheet that doesn’t appear in the window. When you pan with one finger, dragging your finger vertically moves the page, while dragging your finger horizontally selects text on the page.

Zoom
To zoom out, touch two points on the item, and then move your fingers toward each other, as if you're pinching them together. To zoom in, touch two points on the item, and then move your fingers away from each other, as if you're stretching them apart.
Use zooming to make an item on the screen larger or smaller. With a picture, zooming in shows a smaller area in more detail; zooming out shows a larger area.

Rotate
Touch two points on the item, and then move the item in the direction that you want to rotate it.
Use rotating to move a picture or other item on the screen in a circular direction (clockwise or counter-clockwise).

Press and tap
Press the item with one finger, then quickly tap with another finger, while continuing to press the item with the first finger.
Use press and tap to access the shortcut menu. Press and tap does the same thing as press and hold or right-clicking an item.

just left and right enough for me
dave

[Lucky555]

Maybe PICED (pronounced pick - ed) should be shipped with a free Babel Fish that can work in reverse via ......... lets say Bluetooth that way you can transmit what your real intention was.

Just be real careful if a good looking chicky walks past and your wife is nearby :(

The Babel fish is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.

[Darren]

Got a better idea - maybe patent it - when you touch with with a finger you then roll that finger to left or right to simulate the mouse keys. its easy you have the X and Y when it touches so just have to see if the horizontal increase or decreases.
It probably would not be possible to distinguish a drag from a roll of the finger - nice idea though!

just left and right enough for me

It is hard to see exactly how some of the other features could be applied to PICED.

[Lucky555]

It probably would not be possible to distinguish a drag from a roll of the finger - nice idea though!


It is hard to see exactly how some of the other features could be applied to PICED.

What about the Babel Fish suggestion :confused:

[Darren]

What about the Babel Fish suggestion :confused:

Sorry Mr. 555 - I wasn't ignoring you, I just didn't know what to say...

We already have an item in our system to implement Electronic Sensing of Preferences (ESP) which will enable C-Bus devices to change their behaviour according to the whim of the user. We have had a great demand for this concept, although it is usually expressed as a nebulous requirement for system behaviour. We are waiting for new laws of physics to be discovered before we commence work on this ;)