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Best way to detect a swipe/flick gesture RRS feed

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    I've been thinking about the best way to do this on a certain element on my scene, and basically all I can think of is to use the manipulation processors to get the length and velocity of the users manipulation (i.e. translateX/Y) and see if those parameters fall within a certain tolerance.

    Is this the way people have been detecting swipes and flicks? Is there a better way?

    Thanks a lot

    Mark

    Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:31 PM

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    I think that is probably your best bet, yes. You could go through just the ContactDown and ContactUp, and calculate the difference in their relative positions, for example, but Manipulations essentially give you that.

    Also, at the risk of making some assumptions without all of the information, it sounds a little like you are wanting to get information about what a user is doing independent of that input's effect on the actual visuals in your app. Keep in mind that Surface is primarily about direct user interaction with content, versus performing some gesture and then having that create some effect after the fact. I can't tell for sure what your design is, but if you are not currently using direct manipulations, consider altering your design in favor of that approach.

    Doug

    Monday, May 17, 2010 11:24 PM