is there any software out now that can do this or would someone be interested in making one thanks in advance if there is already a thread i couldn't find it so point me in the right direction
No, the screens on Windows Mobile devices can only recognise a single touch at any one time.
HTC Album will zoom in/out with a circular swipe, think zooming with a telephoto lens clockwise=zoom in, anticlockwise=zoom out.
yeah iv know that but i was messing with it trying to zoom in and out by sliding fingers away from each other and it worked a couple times i don't know how i havnt done anything and are u sure it cant recognize multiple touches
It can't with the current screen as mentioned above. Maybe the next generation.
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OK...guys, i'm not new to forums, and i'm certainly not new to hardcore researching to get software/hardware questions answered, and I usually find what I want on my own by looking, but for some reason I can't find this specific thing...
To the nitty gritty (hope this is easy)...
what I'm looking for is a photo dialer app for wm6 (or wm5...whichever...I have the HTC Touch). There is one at link below that looks close to what i'm trying to find, but instead of pressing an arrow or button on the screen to flip through the photos, I want to use the touchscreen and swipe your finger across the screen to flip through the photos. The HTC Dialer on the cube is ok, just wanted a little more out of it.
Thanks for anything and everything.
http://classic.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=25832&associateid=17
This is the best one I've found :
http://www.v2r.ag/products/pocket-pc/photoDialer2.html
It's worth trying
Fresh Freddie said:
This is the best one I've found :
http://www.v2r.ag/products/pocket-pc/photoDialer2.html
It's worth trying
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I've been to that site before, but I haven't downloaded a demo or anything. Is it similar to VSCaller in that you just press on the screen and not actually swiping your finger to control movement?
Yep, just a press on the picture
Being that we have Auto rotate for the web Browser via JF 1.41 and System Auto rotate via DroidSans ......... is it possible to make the Picture Album Auto rotate as well, because even thought the DroidSans Tweak tool allows some instance of Auto rotate it seems to be leaving out the Photo Album......... is there a way to make this Happen.
Yeh Mon ... One Love.... Irie ... In other words Thank You
I second this request. Every other app seems to handle the autorotation automatically, and the picture app could be one of the most useful ways to use autorotation, given that pictures are often taken in both landscape and portrait mode.
Thank you to any who can pull this off.
It would be nice to add the multi-touch zooming to the picture app too...
Lol yes that would be cool. Hope some skillful person sees this
and add the *patented* iphone swipe across to move to the next picture (instead of having to hit the buttons...)
i just use the photo album in astro it auto rotates by itslef
svxdriver said:
It would be nice to add the multi-touch zooming to the picture app too...
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This is really what i want,and of course auto-rotate would be a nice add on as well.
WOw, with this much interest I wonder why this was never addressed before ...... and we dont have to do anything like the iPhone there is a lot more was to do Gestures, such as double tapping making a clockwise circle on the area of the pic you might want to zoom in one and a Counter Clock wise circle to Zoom out etc etc .....
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and add the *patented* iphone swipe across to move to the next picture (instead of having to hit the buttons...)
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Has anyone else seen the HP touchscreen computers? Or that microsoft tabletop one? And we swipe to move our Google maps. Giving Apple a patent on that seems really strange, especially since someone, I don't remember who, was demonstrating multi touch two or three years ago on a device which wasn't related to Apple in any way. (I wish I could remember where I saw that).
Anyway, I agree, I'd love to see multitouch and autorotate for our photos!
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Has anyone else seen the HP touchscreen computers? Or that microsoft tabletop one? And we swipe to move our Google maps. Giving Apple a patent on that seems really strange, especially since someone, I don't remember who, was demonstrating multi touch two or three years ago on a device which wasn't related to Apple in any way. (I wish I could remember where I saw that).
Anyway, I agree, I'd love to see multitouch and autorotate for our photos!
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Apple patented it on mobile devices i think.
Another nice thing on the iPhone photo app is a double tap to automatically make it fill the screen. Heck, pinch zoom would be nice but barring that I'd just like the double-tap feature.
I add myself at the list of this requester... I love to see multitouch zoom and autorotate on the Photo gallery application!
I add this request and will be working on a basic photo application as well. I don't really care about Apple. These features are so easy to implement.
I think a lot people are confused on what apple has patented. Engadget has a good analysis here:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/apple-vs-palm-the-in-depth-analysis/
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Has anyone else seen the HP touchscreen computers? Or that microsoft tabletop one? And we swipe to move our Google maps. Giving Apple a patent on that seems really strange, especially since someone, I don't remember who, was demonstrating multi touch two or three years ago on a device which wasn't related to Apple in any way. (I wish I could remember where I saw that).
Anyway, I agree, I'd love to see multitouch and autorotate for our photos!
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look up the gizmodo articles. they've had a bunch on apple patents and the palm pre recently.
the one i read about said that you only infringe on one of apple's patents if you had BOTH the swipe-to-zoom and the browser lock-to-x or y axis scrolling together.
right now the g1 has (oficially) the scrolling where if you only move it down it locks to the y axis and moves down only. same with left right. and if u start moving diagonal ur free to do whatever. the g1 doesnt infringe on THAT patent because it DOESNT also have the swipe-to-get to next picture.
I read one of those articles this morning. I wonder what will happen between Apple and Palm? I expect they will work it out between themselves, or it will be a mess.
Ill throw my hat in here too
I understand, though, that work here isnt paid for, so I understand if a dev decides NOT to work on it... I just hope one does
I have played around with some of the multitouch apps (browser, maps, image-gallery examples) and found them quite impressive. My question is, can the onscreen-keyboard be hacked to allow for multitoutch?
i know the keyboard is pretty useful but it would be better to have the multi touch features. The screen supports multutouch and it is a bit stupid that apple can copyright multitouch. alot of my friends mock the android cos it doesnt have mutitouch (stupid iphone snobs)
so, is it possible?
I'm sure it would be possible. There honestly should be multi-touch support for the virtual keyboard. Not to display 2 letters at a time obviously, but to just que the second letter to allow for faster typing rather than have it skip between 2 letters. The iphone does have multi-touch support on its VK for the same exact reason of faster typing.
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I have played around with some of the multitouch apps (browser, maps, image-gallery examples) and found them quite impressive. My question is, can the onscreen-keyboard be hacked to allow for multitoutch?
i know the keyboard is pretty useful but it would be better to have the multi touch features. The screen supports multutouch and it is a bit stupid that apple can copyright multitouch. alot of my friends mock the android cos it doesnt have mutitouch (stupid iphone snobs)
so, is it possible?
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so where are you seeing all of this stuff with the multi touch?
Yeah, I don't think multi-touch is available for Maps and Gallery. If I'm wrong could someone shoot me a link please?
Multi touch is only available in the browser. There were some demos you could install on your phone of the maps and gallery but they were just demos not the actual program.
As for the VK not sure why you would need it. Maybe type faster but other than that I see no need for it.
He's talking about the multitouch examples here: http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/get-multi-touch-support-on-your-t-mobile-g1-today/
I don't really see what all the hype is about multi-touch. The only reason I can see it being useful is for games, and maybe if a shift key was inserted in the VK. Other than that, I feel it just becomes more difficult. Sure, it's cool technology, but isn't it easier to zoom using your thumb, holding the phone with one hand, than having to use two fingers or two separate hands? I've been running JF builds for months which multi-touch, and barely use it at all.
Multi touch allows for faster typing. Especially if you're typing in landscape mode with your thumbs going at it. I've noticed it would skip letters for me on various occasions because of it not registering hits that are too close to each other.
Why wouldn't you just open the keyboard...
I don't get it
I agree about typing. I also think the iphone's way of zooming in/out on the map is easier, too. It is all preference, but I really want the multi-touch map. Having it as an option would satisfy the masses.
To be honest, after the novelty of having multitouch on the browser wore off I found myself using the "+" and "-" buttons on the screen anyway!
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To be honest, after the novelty of having multitouch on the browser wore off I found myself using the "+" and "-" buttons on the screen anyway!
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Personally, I hate those freaking on-screen zoom in/out buttons with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns. They're always popping up in the way of links that are placed at the bottom of web pages and I constantly hit that stupid button in the bottom right of the screen, opening that useless panning box. IMHO on-screen menus should never be placed in front of content. Am I the only one that thinks that's completely retarded?
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frankly i like the circle zoom!! i thnk tht wud b more convinient then the multi touch unless ur in landscape mode for some reason or another but yes i wud really like multi touch vk!! i need to b able to type faster but i still use my hardware keyboard for fast typing!
i prefer using two fingers to zoom in and out. I feel that by using two fingers you see where you are zooming and dont have a finger in the way. As multitouch is enabled in the rom, using two fingers emulates a finger press in between them, which can get quite enoying if you type fast ir knock a key by accident, u get a random key in the middle.
I know its not essential but these little things give it a nicer feel.
Chris
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Why wouldn't you just open the keyboard...
I don't get it
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It's a matter of personal preference. Is that not why we like open source so much? Some of us don't want to open keyboards every 4 seconds. Some of us have magic's sans hardware keyboards.
I for one welcome any improvements that I may or not use but in the end they are improvements.
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Why wouldn't you just open the keyboard...
I don't get it
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Because, I text a LOT. Between work and twitter and friends... I'm texting all the time. sometimes it's just faster to start typing.. plus I'm sure it's better on the hinges to not keep snapping the thing open every minute.
I've searched and searched but I have NO IDEA how to word this.
Basically, when I had my iPhone, I loved looking through my photo gallery and sliding my finger from one side to the other to get to the next picture, and pinching to zoom in an out.
I know multitouch works in the browser, so has anyone done this with the photo gallery yet?
flash hero rom to your g1 and you'll get what you want.
my recommendation is mlign 3.0!
amir
I have been wanting this for awhile but idk how to port. If you really want the multi touch go with a Hero Rom. If you want to stick with cyanogen checkout picture viewer its free from the market. You can swipe left and right to change pic and up and down to zoom. It isnt multi touch but it works nicely. Good luck.
is there any magnifying glass tool like iphone ? sorry for my english.
iam look for them too but i found noting
is nobody there how can program it
Yeah, it's possible, but it doesn't work everywhere (just in the text messaging screen, basically).
Look for this in the registry and change it to 1:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\TextSelection\EnableMagnifier"
Robrecht said:
Yeah, it's possible, but it doesn't work everywhere (just in the text messaging screen, basically).
Look for this in the registry and change it to 1:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\TextSelection\EnableMagnifier"
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Great thing here =) thanks!
Magnifying glass
The one in the current iPhone TV ad looks very cool... haven't tried the registry tweak to enable the one mentioned above, but I suspect that's missing the point. The one I'd like to see would use the camera on the back of the HD2, preferably illuminated by the LEDs, and display a magnified image on the screen (the funky old-fashioned handle could be optional).
With a 5 megapixel camera, you could display at actual size just a portion of the image live would result in a 13x magnification without further processing. You could probably double that before pixels become jagged.
That would be far more impressive that what's possible with the iPhone.
Can't be that hard to program...???
@slowcat2:
This thread is about a 'virtual' magnifying glass that magnifies a part of your screen, specifically when selecting text, to increase the accuracy of your finger on the touch screen.
Your idea is actually pretty cool. I had my doubts at first, as I thought the HD2's camera and lens aren't good enough (even with its 5 megapixels) to offer a detailed and sharp image at close range; but then again, just using the built-in 2x zoom in the camera app, I already got a result that could be useful in some circumstances.
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@slowcat2:
This thread is about a 'virtual' magnifying glass that magnifies a part of your screen, specifically when selecting text, to increase the accuracy of your finger on the touch screen.
Your idea is actually pretty cool. I had my doubts at first, as I thought the HD2's camera and lens aren't good enough (even with its 5 megapixels) to offer a detailed and sharp image at close range; but then again, just using the built-in 2x zoom in the camera app, I already got a result that could be useful in some circumstances.
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thanks, you are right, using the zoom is enough, good idea !
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With a 5 megapixel camera, you could display at actual size just a portion of the image live would result in a 13x magnification without further processing.
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Actually, if I'm calculating correctly, since the pictures from the camera are 2592x1552 px, showing a portion of the image at actual pixel size on our 800x480 px screens would result in a 3,24x magnification (2592/800) along each axis. Or did I miss something?
Still, that's a lot more than what the zoom feature on the camera does, so there's room for improvement. Let's hope a developer picks this idea up!
Unless this has been bumped into another thread, I can't see how/why this hasn't been explored more. iPhone ads have a "Magnifying Glass" that obviously uses the camera lens to read images from the front and display them on the back (screen).
The HD2 has exactly the same physical make up of a camera lens on one side and a screen on the other and, when taking photos, this is utilised.
Presumably the LEDs would have to be forced on because of the closeness of the image and the camera would also have to be forced to maximum magnification, leaving the holder to move in and out to get focus.
The rest is just "tarting up".
I'd do it myself, if it weren't for a lack of time and talent!