Multitouchscreen AS3 controlled

July 10th, 2007

Oh well, I need such a device. It is so elegant to work with. This application by Tim Roth is above all controlled by AS3. If you speak german you can follow this thread in the german flashforum.

via Jens Franke


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9 Responses to “Multitouchscreen AS3 controlled”

  1. sascha/hdrs Says:
    July 11th, 2007 at 3:46 am

    Ack, another ‘lets rotate photos’-demonstration! What I fail to understand is how is this in any way elegant or useful? I’ve seen soo many video hype recently with formal dressed Marketing-Department guys sitting at glass tables, rotating photos around as if this is the absolute coolest thing on earth but I have yet to see one application that really makes sense for it!

  2. André Michelle Says:
    July 11th, 2007 at 5:26 am

    Sascha, whats going on?

    I won’t explain, why this is the coolest thing on earth for the next decade, cause it simply is. However organizing photos is just the obvious application and it makes absolute sense to me.

    Did you ever have seen this?

  3. Bastian Waidelich Says:
    July 11th, 2007 at 8:27 am

    I think the “multi-touch” is what makes these technologies so interesting! The – admittedly very often abused – photo application is just one possible use. But I can think of a lot of cool games and application supporting concurrent inputs.. Thats revolutionary stuff!

  4. Mario Klingemann Says:
    July 11th, 2007 at 11:22 am

    BTW – if I’m not mistaken the actual multi-touch detection aka blob-tracking is not done in AS3, but is done with TouchLib: http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/touchlib/ – I guess that the tracking data is then sent to the frontend via FLOSC: http://www.benchun.net/flosc/

  5. Mario Klingemann Says:
    July 11th, 2007 at 11:25 am

    Oh – I should have read the flashforum post before commenting. So it is indeed done with touchlib + flosc.

  6. André Michelle Says:
    July 11th, 2007 at 11:32 am

    Congratulation Mario. You’ve posted the 1000th comment ;)

  7. Ash Says:
    July 11th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

    I need to learn how to speak german!
    I also need to know where I can get one of these touch screens :D

  8. Michael Voigt Says:
    July 23rd, 2007 at 5:15 am

    I agree that this stuff is pretty much lame. Microsoft and their 15k table can keep it ….. when in the real world the iPhone has launched with true innovations in UI and human interaction…

    Now when flash player is launched in the iPhone, then this stuff will be very very useful and people will actually start using it !!

  9. sascha/hdrs Says:
    July 23rd, 2007 at 7:32 am

    Don’t get me wrong! It’s good to see that this is controlled via ActionbScript. However IMHO there is way too much hype around these touch screens. Let’s see if they can cater to the consumer market which reasonable prices. Then we can talk.

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