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Windows 7: Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 3 )

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Mike Taulty
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01 Jul 2009 at 12:56

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Following on from the previous post and the one before , it was fun to play with my own interop wrappers for a while but I figure it’s going to be a lot more productive to use the interop wrappers contained up at; and they also include wrappers for the manipulation API and its friend the inertia API which I didn’t really want to get into wrapping if I could avoid it.

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Following on from the previous post and the one before , it was fun to play with my own interop wrappers for a while but I figure it’s going to be a lot more productive to use the interop wrappers contained up at; http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=WindowsTouch&DownloadId=4525 and they also include wrappers for the manipulation API and its friend the inertia API which I didn’t really want to get into wrapping if I could avoid it. Wrapping those COM objects might not have been too ugly a job but the initial thought of trying to track down the TLB info for the COM objects involved ( assuming that there is TLB info for those COM objects because it’s a lot less fun if there’s not ) and then try and get it imported into the .NET world didn’t fill me with joy and so switching to using someone else’s wrapper seemed like a smart move. I wanted to experiment with those wrappers and see whether it made life easier or more difficult and so I thought I’d quickly replicate what...(read more)

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