Comments on: TUIO multitouch on iPhone via browser hack

By: cptfalcon

cptfalcon — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:38:49 +0000

thanks andrew, i had no idea the web app stuff for the itouch had support for multitouch, that is pretty neat… might have to see what neat tricks i could do with a multitouch page :)

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:11:37 +0000

This is why apple sucks. They have an absolutley amazing piece of hardware, and instead of opening it up so people can do revolutionary things, they have to “approve” applications and decide to block things that don;t fit with apple. I think Wired sumed it up best with the following quote… “your iPhone is a pathetic piece of DRM-riddled crippleware”…

By: Andrew Turley

Andrew Turley — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:54:15 +0000

@cptfalcon, the described program uses Safari, not OSCemote, like Peter says. The touch events have a list of touches, and each touch has a property called “identifier” that is unique for that touch within the lifetime of the touch. But the identifiers (which are just integers) can be reused. When a touch ends, a touchend event is sent out (and received by listeners), and you can get the touches from that event to determine when a given touch has ended. That way you can know that the current touch #7 is different from the touch #7 you were following earlier, because there was a touchend event with touch #7 in between the two.

@gadgeteer, sorry about the confusion. I think I wrote that at around 2:00 AM, so I may not have been clear.

@peter, I would call OSCemote “a platform for specialized web apps” rather than an actual web app. I mean, you can open any web page from within the app.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:45:40 +0000

gadgeteer, that’s incorrect. He was inspired by the fact that OSCemote uses essentially an embedded Web interface. It is absolutely possible to run an application in Safari, which is what he’s doing here. It is a Web app. Arguably, so is OSCemote, but that’s not what he’s using.

By: michu

michu — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:00:46 +0000

lcd4linux (bleeding edge) does support the vnc protocol – also buttons are supported. so you may use lcd4linux and a vnc viewer on your iphone to remote control something (eg. music player)

By: cptfalcon

cptfalcon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:53:06 +0000

thanks for the clarification, apparently i miss-understood the bit about oscremote

By: Gadgeteer

Gadgeteer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:06:32 +0000

This is NOT running in Safari. He is using a downloaded iPhone app called OSCremote which happens to be configured using HTML. More info here:
http://www.pillowsopher.com/blog/?p=79

By: cptfalcon

cptfalcon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:15:54 +0000

how are mutltiple touches handled in safari? does each touch get a special event-id so that you can distinguish which finger is moving on a move update? does this require a specific safari js interpreter, or could it be used any multitouch browser?

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:48:23 +0000

Yep, I’m using it on an iPod touch!

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:56:24 +0000

could this work on the itouch too?

By: jproach

jproach — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:43:26 +0000

If you like the visuals, try Plasma Pong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDjseVmruH8