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[Martin Naef]

Tony, Jay, and whoever wondered about multi-touch on Win7:

Jay Vaughan wrote:
> Its going to be interesting how non-Apple operating-systems deal with  
> multi-touch.  Is it just multiple-mouses?  Is it something else  
> entirely?  Can you rely on the OS to tell you what a pinch move is,  
> etc?  Its like the WIMP days all over again ..

Windows has had pen input for ages. The multi-touch is essentially an 
extension of these interfaces (they already support gestures).

If you're using .net 4, adding multi-touch capabilities to an 
applications is a few tens of lines of code to include the multi-finger 
gestures (e.g. scale, rotate, and the various tapping options).

I think it took me about an afternoon to build in full multi-touch into 
an application, including reading up the MSDN documentation...

Applications that don't handle the new gestures still profit from 
multi-touch: tap, scale or pan gestures are translated into the 
equivalent mouse messages (e.g. the wheel, right mouse, etc.).

Martin