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This is awesome, thanks for sharing! Being able to use gestures in almost any program suddenly makes my machine become a lot more of what I had hoped it would be when I bought it. Now I just need to learn all the gestures and see what else it can do.
Why on earth wasn't this available before, or are we not supposed to have it?
Yesterday I walk into a costco, and I find a Dell Studio 19 with multitouch. So I go over and look at it since it uses NextWindows touchscreens just like my IQ804. To my surprise multi-touch gestures were working in Vista Home Premium. I was able to pich and stretch photos on the native vista photo "preview" (right click of the mouse and then preview). I was also able to shrink and stretch fonts inside Explorer 8 and a gesture icon showing pinch and expand would show up while doing the 2 finger gesture. I go over to control panel and I find a Multitouch app which enables this functionality. I rush home to look for it in my TS and of course it's not there. Does anyone know why this is available in the Dell PC but on on the HP TS'. I mean it's running the exact same touch hardware and OS. Although the Dell stuff is not based on a mobile centrino platform. Looking at the drivers provided for the Studio 19 desktop, there's a NextWindow application install here:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=g...
Has anyone tried to run this on their TS?
August 23, 2009 3:40 PM
August 23, 2009 8:21 PM
Probably because it would interfere with the Touchsmart Applications. The Gesture Server takes priority over the touchsmart API, so you need to disable gestures on the tray icon so that the touchsmart multitouch gestures work right. So following the law of "Keeping it simple" they probably chose not to put that in as they did not want to explain "disable GSA when using touchsmart apps". I for one think it's a lot more usefull to have the gestures throughout the OS than just the touchsmart suite.
August 27, 2009 8:05 PM
You may want to try this:
http://www.nextwindow.com/support/usb_config.html
David
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What do you know, It works!!!! I downloaded the GSA driver and to my surprise, I get the multi-touch settings icon in the control panel and I can enable pinch to zoom in native windows apps, and also scroll vertical and horizontal and double tap action for a variety of actions like Show Desktop, Launch Internet Explorer and Launch Multi-touch settings.