Category: AIR
Emulate touch events to use with AIR 2.0 applications
As already known, AIR 2.0 that is currently in beta stage, is packed with new features, and one of this features is multi-touch events support. If you have multi-touch device and Windows 7, testing is pretty straightforward. What if you have no plans to put bucks into new multi-touch monitor and Windows 7 ?
Fortunately, for those guys like me still using Windows XP, touch emulator is released to beta. It's called SimTouch and can be tested within minutes. You'll ned just download SWC file and AIR application, then use SWC in your own Flex application. SimTouch AIR application is in fact a transparent window that is placed over your Flex application and translates mouse click events into XML that is consumed by your Flex application and translated into multi-touch event. SimTouch AIR application require AIR runtime 2.0 and should be installed and launched prior to building your Flex application.
Still SimTouch in beta, not supporting all touch events in AIR 2.0, but it definitely worth trying and watch future development.
Posted by Rodion Bykov on March 2, 2010 at 9:08 AM - Categories: AIR