Fireworks are used all around the world to celebrate a variety of holidays and events and they usually present opportunities for some really beautiful sights and now you can do the same on your Windows Phone 7. Fireworks is a FREE novelty app by Mike Newman, for some odd reason the app is available in the games section and gets installed to the games hub. Fireworks creates some amazing visual effects on your WP7 device by just touching the screen. Fireworks offers quite a bit of customization options to the user. In the settings page you can toggle sound and tactile feedback and if you get in to the customize show page you get to customize the fireworks to your liking. Lets take a look at what are the options available.
Here is something for developers, Adel Al Zubeir have recently released a SDK which promises to bring MultiTouch ( detects up to 2 touches ) to Resistive screen. I am no developer and have no idea how this works but if you are a developer and want to add multitouch gestures to your windows mobile apps then this might be worth a look. This SDK allows developers to build Dual-Touch enabled applications.
Features:
* Pinch to Zoom Support
* Drag (swipe) support.
* Replacement events for the mouse move fires only when a single finger detected.
* Multiple events based on gestures.
* Performance optimized, memory footprint is minimal.
To use this SDK you will need Visual Studio Professional or better. start a new Smart Device Project, and add the SDK to your references.
The SDK is consists of only one object, which is DualTouchSDK. We will need one instance of this class for every control that supports pinch to zoom or drag in your application.
Zooomer enables “pinch to zoom” in the programs you want. The software scans all .exe on the device. Just select the app you want to bee zoom enabled and perform a softreset – here you go: the exe is enabled for pinch to zoom! Currently only user installed (and some few built in) applications can be “zooom-enabled”.
LMT Launcher 0.3 is a simple launcher for the HD2 that launches a program when perform multi-touch gestures on the screen. The app was developed was l3v5y and noname81 from xda-developers
The following gestures are supported
- DoubleSquare: Close LMT
- DoubleQuestionMark: Learn mode; the following gesture will be connected to the process related to the foreground window. Next time the gesture is done, LMT will start the connected process
- DoubleLineUp: Close the current process
- DoubleLineDown: Connect e.g. to TaskFacade as a “Multitouch Taskmanager”
- DoubleLineLeft
- DoubleLineRight
- DoubleArrowLeft
- DoubleArrowRight
Who says windows mobile cant be fun, here is the beta version of hd2Wobble.The new version of the hdWobble app introduces a new image gallery and is optimized for the HD2. hd2Wobble which brings the “bouncy-bouncy” fun on to Windows Mobile. The app works with G-Sensor. To see the app inaction watch the video here [ NSFW ]
envy the HTC Leo users who can achieve multi-touch with the capacitive screen. annadoul from xda-develoeprs has has come up with an SDK that allows a multi touch like effect for Windows Mobile devices with resistive touchscreens. It kind of enables pinch to zoom ( in a crude way ). Place 1st finger on the image, then place the 2nd finger also on the image and slide your second finger in or out and there you have the pinch to zoom effect on resistive screen.
l3v5y one of the mods at xda-developers have released a how to achieve multi-touch on the HD2. He has also released a simple app to demonstrate the feature and in the true xda-developers spirit has made the source code of the app available for all developers. This will work only on the HD2 as of now. The only Windows mobile with a capacitive touch screen.
Zoomer, is a handy little pocket pc app, that allows you to restore pinch zooming to any EXE on your HTC HD2. You can enable multi-touch in any app you choose or disable it in selected apps.
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