Touchscreen work
I just received a new PC I ordered. I'm planning on dedicating it to my multitouch table so that I can have a more permanent setup. So, right now I'm doing the fun task of getting all the windows updates installed. I'm also planning on messing a bit with Ubuntu later this week.
Lately I've been doing some work on creating some Actionscript 3 classes for Flash 9 that will interface with FLOsc. The nice thing about what I'm doing is that my TUIO events will extend the regular mouse events, so regular components (such as buttons, scrollbars, etc) may still work in a multitouch setting.
Overall I'm really liking most of the changes for Actionscript 3, especially the XML ones which make dealing with XML a much more painless process. Also, the extra speed and lower level control over movieclips and bitmaps is nice. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of graphical effects I'll be able to accomplish.
Once I get these classes done I'll be working on some small multitouch apps (preferably games or other fun things) in Flash 9. I want to make a game that a couple people can work together on in a cooperative way. I think sandbox style games may work well.
Overall I'm really liking most of the changes for Actionscript 3, especially the XML ones which make dealing with XML a much more painless process. Also, the extra speed and lower level control over movieclips and bitmaps is nice. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of graphical effects I'll be able to accomplish.
Once I get these classes done I'll be working on some small multitouch apps (preferably games or other fun things) in Flash 9. I want to make a game that a couple people can work together on in a cooperative way. I think sandbox style games may work well.
If anyone has any ideas they'd care to share, feel free to post them in the comments.
Labels: Flash, multitouch
4 Comments:
Have you considered using Apollo? I am researching it some now, but I think it could be a good solution for some MT apps, Fullscreen 3D with papervision in Appollo is really smooth.
cmoore
Yeah, I was just checking out the apollo website yesterday. Of course you can always just create a flash projector .exe but maybe for more in depth apps it might be good.
Great job on the TouchLib Flash clients David, I cannot wait to look at your src. It should be very easy to move this into the Apollo framework.
(should have been in last comment)
http://theflexblog.com/?p=18
Cool link. The one thing that would be nice that apollo offers would be access to the filesystem. Does apollo offer better performance or is it about the same as in a web browser? Also does it have the same security problems (ie, not being able to access things across domains)?
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