PFTouch.NET: Winforms Multitouch- and Gesture-API

We are proud to present our new API for Multi-Touch and Gestures. If you have a Multi-Touch display and Windows-7 or higher you can bind the events for these Gestures: Pan, Zoom, Rotate, TwoFingerTap, PressAndTap:

Photo-Demo in Action

The images in our Demo-Application can be dragged, rotated and zoomed with fingure-gestures of a Multi-Touch device. The code for handling these events is like that:

Zoom-Eventhandler:

Just set the values for ScaleX and ScaleY of the TransformElementContainer (Winforms-Control) and the image is scaled.

private void transformElementContainer_ZoomGestureInput(object sender, 
    GestureEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.GestureInfo.Begin)
    {
        dragElement = SetTopClientLocation(e.GestureInfo.Location);
    }

    if (dragElement != null)
    {
        double zf = e.GestureInfo.ZoomFactor;
        dragElement.ScaleX += (float)zf - 1.0f;
        dragElement.ScaleY += (float)zf - 1.0f;

        transformElementContainer.Refresh();
    }
}
        

Rotation-Eventhandler:

The same can be done for rotations of elements in the container (here a very simple roration-handling):

private void transformElementContainer_RotateGestureInput(object sender,
    GestureEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.GestureInfo.Begin)
    {
        dragElement = SetTopClientLocation(e.GestureInfo.Location);
    }

    if (dragElement != null)
    {
        double angle = e.GestureInfo.RotationAngle * (180.0 / Math.PI);

        if (e.GestureInfo.Begin)
        {
            rotangle = dragElement.Angle;
        }
        dragElement.Angle += (angle < 0.0) ? -0.5f : 0.5f;
        transformElementContainer.Refresh();
    }
}
        

If you like to develop an own control with Gesture-Events you can derive from the TouchControl of the PFGrid-Toolkit.