[DUG] Another reason for Delphi to move to MultiPlatforms

[Jeremy North]

The UI layer may need to be specific to the supported platform, but
hopefully the business logic will be portable.

I purchased one of the Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen and Touch devices on the
weekend. Takes a little getting used to and seems to have spazz
attacks occasionally but seems ok. Haven't tried it on my Windows 7 or
OSX machines yet. Just Vista. A quick test with Delphi 2010 gestures
and it wouldn't recognise my custom gesture (no matter how hard I
tried to emulate the gesture).

Watched a short video of the mouse on Engadget. They weren't overly
impressed with it, especially for sideways movement.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Jolyon Smith <jsmith at deltics.co.nz> wrote:
> Possibly, although of course the Apple already has a quite different mouse
> in the form of the Mighty Mouse.
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> Those people dreaming of a single-source cross platform nirvana should
> consider how they are going to write GUI application code that responds
> consistently and intuitively for different platforms where supported input
> devices (and the way they are supported) may differ, let alone where the
> expectations that the user has of the UI and how they are expected to
> interact with it is different.
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> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
> Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 October 2009 9:12 a.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: [DUG] Another reason for Delphi to move to MultiPlatforms
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> Ok, this is a bit tounge-in-check, but Delphi's gestures might come in handy
> for this.....when its multiplatform :-)
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> http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2985347/Apples-new-iMacs-multitouch-mouse
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