{"id":12757,"date":"2008-05-16T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/05\/flash-based-multitouch-coolness.html"},"modified":"2008-05-16T14:00:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T14:00:55","slug":"flash_based_multitouch_coolness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/flash_based_multitouch_coolness\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash-based multitouch coolness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Christian Moore &amp; the folks at the NUI Group have created Lux, an open-source framework for creating multitouch-savvy applications.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/391103\/full+screen-multitouch-mac-os-x-is-here-but-not-from-apple\">Check out the video demo<\/a> &amp; a short interview with Christian on how they&#8217;ve used Flash to prototype a very cool implementation.&#160; I&#8217;d love to see it updated to take advantage of the GPU hardware acceleration in the upcoming Flash Player 10 (just <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/flashplayer10\/\">posted in preview form<\/a> on Adobe Labs).&#160; Oh, and how about this running in a Smart Object on the Photoshop canvas?&#160; (Hey, I&#8217;m just thinking aloud, not dropping any near-term.) [Via Jerry Harris] <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Interesting related bits:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>Gizmodo features a <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/nextfest07\/jeff-han-talks-multitouch-iphones-and-lame-minority-report-jokes-300100.php\">short recent interview<\/a> with Jeff Han, the guy whose\tmultitouch work really lit a fire under the whole area two years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Macworld&#8217;s Dan Frakes provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/media.macworld.com\/media\/vodcast\/mwvodcast50.mp4\">video tour<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/wcrawford.org\/2008\/02\/28\/everytime-i-think-about-you-i-touch-my-cell\/\">MultiClutch<\/a>, a free utility for extending the multitouch features in the latest MacBook Pro &amp; MacBook Air notebooks.&#160; (I was bummed to discover that my wife&#8217;s brand new MacBook doesn&#8217;t offer the same support.&#160; She&#8217;s just happy to have two-finger scrolling, something missing from her deceased PowerBook.) <\/li>\n<li>I need to pull together a category for multitouch; in the meantime, past interesting bits are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=multi-touch&amp;btnG=Search+Adobe+Blogs&amp;domains=blogs.adobe.com\/jnack&amp;sitesearch=blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\">here<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Moore &amp; the folks at the NUI Group have created Lux, an open-source framework for creating multitouch-savvy applications.&#160; Check out the video demo &amp; a short interview with Christian on how they&#8217;ve used Flash to prototype a very cool implementation.&#160; I&#8217;d love to see it updated to take advantage of the GPU hardware acceleration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}