Posted on April 11, 2009, 8:19 pm, by Jeethu Karthik, under AIR.
Last month we saw a post on Adobe’s INSPIRE magazine regarding the future of multi-touch input. Rich Tretola, has posted on InsideRIA, a video of Andrew Trice, demonstrating multi-touch functionality in AIR. As Andrew explains in the video, AIR natively does not support multi-touch input as of now (version 1.5). Andrew explains that this demo is a simulation of mutli-touch functionality through single-touch in AIR. Hope we get multi-touch in AIR 2.0.
The problem isn’t about “getting multi-touch in Air”, but rather that there’s no multi-touch standard at all. It’s a much bigger issue we have to wait for software and operating system vendors to solve.
I am developing a combined Adobe Flex and AIR application to manage and organize knowledge, based on topic maps: http://www.quesucede.com/page/show/id/polishedcode. Furthermore, the actual topic map engine was developed with ActionScript 3 and uses SQLite as a backing store (for object graph serialization and de-serialization). With Adobe AIR, I am hoping to provide a vastly improved user experience. Specifically, the availability of powerful graph visualization libraries that allow you to visually layout the relationships between topics contribute to making the whole topic map experience very intuitive and appealing.
The problem isn’t about “getting multi-touch in Air”, but rather that there’s no multi-touch standard at all. It’s a much bigger issue we have to wait for software and operating system vendors to solve.
Yes… With apple trying to patent the technology and others gunning for it… This is a kind of technology that should be made available to everyone….
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting
I am developing a combined Adobe Flex and AIR application to manage and organize knowledge, based on topic maps: http://www.quesucede.com/page/show/id/polishedcode. Furthermore, the actual topic map engine was developed with ActionScript 3 and uses SQLite as a backing store (for object graph serialization and de-serialization). With Adobe AIR, I am hoping to provide a vastly improved user experience. Specifically, the availability of powerful graph visualization libraries that allow you to visually layout the relationships between topics contribute to making the whole topic map experience very intuitive and appealing.