SFML community forums

General => Feature requests => Topic started by: jmark1m on January 15, 2014, 06:44:40 pm

Title: Touch Events Interface Request
Post by: jmark1m on January 15, 2014, 06:44:40 pm

I'm looking for SFML to support multi touch via a touch events interface (similar to SDL finger / touch events).  Is there any status on this?  Specifically I'm looking for multitouch under X11 linux.

Does anyone have any suggestions that would allow me to use SFML and also use a multi touch interface?  I was looking at OIS library but it seems a bit dead/out of date.  I'm too invested in SFML to use SDL so I am a bit stuck at the moment.

Thanks for listening.

Title: Re: Touch Events Interface Request
Post by: AlexAUT on January 15, 2014, 07:52:46 pm

SFML in its next version 2.2 will support touchevents and has a touch interface (which supports multitouch) (Offtopic also android/iOS | opengl ES support). It's currently in the testing phase and has some issues. So it will be hopefully released within the next months (just my guess, nothing official ;) )


AlexAUT

Title: Re: Touch Events Interface Request
Post by: Nexus on January 15, 2014, 10:10:45 pm

You can already have a look at it, there's a special branch for iOS and Android on GitHub.

Title: Re: Touch Events Interface Request
Post by: Canadadry on January 17, 2014, 08:43:27 am

But what about touch event on Windows, MacOS and Linux ?

Title: Re: Touch Events Interface Request
Post by: Laurent on January 17, 2014, 09:25:03 am

They will be implemented later. Probably after SFML 2.2 is released.

Title: Re: Touch Events Interface Request
Post by: eXpl0it3r on January 17, 2014, 09:32:50 am

Quote from: Laurent on January 17, 2014, 09:25:03 am

They will be implemented later. Probably after SFML 2.2 is released.

Welcome back! We missed you! ;D

Title: Re: Touch Events Interface Request
Post by: IngloriousTom on May 14, 2014, 02:26:14 pm

It may be out of scope for SFML but what about TUIO (http://www.tuio.org/) support (an open framework for multitouch applications)?

I know it's not OS based and requires a thread  to manage touches (client/server based framework), but it is used by many multitouch screens/hardware and it may be cool to abstract each well-known touches system into a single interface.

Title: Re: Touch Events Interface Request
Post by: Turbine on May 22, 2014, 07:40:40 am

Could Would you consider some of the most desirable touch gestures being apart of SFML?

Title: Re: Touch Events Interface Request
Post by: Laurent on May 22, 2014, 07:56:16 am

Quote

Would you consider some of the most desirable touch gestures being apart of SFML?

Yes, we'll probably add support for standard gestures in a future version.