[PD] D*mn it!

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 14, 2004, at 12:25 PM, Ryan Supak wrote:

>  
> >Do Tablet PCs support multi-touch (with more
> >than 1 or 2 fingers?)
>
> I'm aware of only two commercially-available multi-touch  
> control surfaces:
>
> The Fingerworks products (they have a free, pretty comprehensive SDK  
> as well): www.fingerworks.com
>
> The now-defunct MTC express: www.tactex.com.

A friend of mine, Bob Huott, has worked extensively with tactex.  He is  
basically abandoning it because of its limitations.  It does do  
multi-touch very well, but it has a low refresh rate, and you need  
roughly 2cm between touches in order for them to be detected as  
individual events rather than one.  Also, it takes a decent amount of  
pressure to actuate it, but it is pressure sensitive as well.

As for building a Lemur with Pd and a tablet, there is another  
limitation in that most OS's only support one pointer, so even if the  
screen could handle multi-touch, the OS probably could not.  But it  
would be cool...

.hc

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