Re: Touch or Mouse Control
Posted: Thu, 14Nov06 07:03
As you know Java is another way for a Browser, to access System Resources. For a touch pad to work. There would have to be a new Browser, that supports a newer Java variant. Then new Java routine calls, that then can talk to OS, to get information back from the touch-screen driver. Since mice already exist, Java has those routines available.Greyelf wrote:@Tlaero (and anyone else for that matter)
I understand you are using double touch to simulate mouse cursor hover to show tool-tips, what touch technique equates to finding a hot-spot like the way cursor shape change is used in games like the ones by MSP?
(note: I know you can drag a cursor sprite around a scene using touch but the problem is that cursor is under your finger/thumb so harder to see when it changes shape.)
So it's basically, wait for the Java community to figure out, how to make the calls universal for the Browsers. Then the Browser community to create a new version, that can utilize the new Java routines. This goes way back to when Java was created. And Bill Gates wanted Microsoft to either have it's own Java variant. Just like with Microsoft Office products, he could utilize hidden optimized code. To work faster with the OS, so Microsoft Internet Explorer running MS-Java. Would be faster than Netscape, running open source Java. For you young 'uns. Netscape was killed off by AOL. So the open source community, created Firefox/Mozilla. Based on good ol' Netscape. I even have a Weird Al Parody. "AOL killed the Internet Star".