Hey All,
By now it’s not a secret anymore that Epic has backlogged Multi-Touch functionality for windows pc’s with touchscreen.
At the moment only mouse events can be simulated using touch, no more than 1 touch inputs can be handled (or 2 of you use pinching for your mouse-wheel input) .
I am actively looking to find better functionality for our visualization clients and most of this functionality can come from multi-touch support.
In this quest for multi-touch support i have ran into a few projects and posts that make me wonder: what is their status and (how) can I get my hands on their solution? I am posting this threat to hopefully start a more productive efford to (communally) find a solution for this missing feature.
Until now I’ve found the following interesting links:
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This C++ Plug-In that is undocumented, Maybe someone is able to create a successful implementation for this? Would be lovely if a “how to install and use this” is shared…
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This Paid Contract Request, It is commissioned by an US government instance so I really have no idea if they want and are allowed to share if they found a solution. Would be great to get at least confirmation if the contract was delivered successfully. Even better if the plugin(code) could be shared!
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This GitBook, At the moment it seems like a dud. only one page being accesible. I will keep on tracking this post since its academic set-up might offer better insight into how to implement multi-touch support for windows…
This is about all information (besides our communal begging for this feature) i could find… Let’s try to solve this together!
EDIT:
I’ve just found a post stating it will be featured in 4.14: “This is now in progress. The target release is 4.14, but it will be available via source on github probably within the next month after it has been sufficiently tested.”
I don’t know how long 4.14 will take until release but i am happy that Epic has heard our wishes! I am still curious if anyone can get the code from point 1 working:)