[Qt-interest] QGesture on desktop

[Harri Pasanen]

Friday, December 31, 2010 11:48 pm 
Thiago Macieira writes:
> On Friday, 31 de December de 2010 10:36:31 Harri Pasanen wrote:
> > I'm trying to put gestures to use to enable pinch zoom in QWebView.
> > So far my results have not been too promising.
> > 
> > Going back to basics, I'm running imagegestures sample on desktop
> > (linux). I would have thought it would support Qt::PanGesture and
> > Qt::SwipeGesture on desktop, but it does not appear to be so.   To be
> > clear, the code does put them to use and they work on a phone, but on
> > desktop no gestures are recognized.   Why is that?
> 
> The gestures work on the desktop, provided you have touch working too.
> 
> My guess is touch isn't working for you because there is no standard touch
> solution for Linux yet.

Correct,  I don't even have a touch screen on desktop.  

It would ease development a bit though if swipe and pan were available with a 
regular mouse.  After all, I don't see why they could not be, technically.

Harri
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