[DUG] Another reason for Delphi to move to MultiPlatforms

[Jeremy Coulter]

try using the pen that comes with it instead of Crayons
Jeremy.....hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....  -)

Jeremy

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Jeremy North <jeremy.north at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok, this is a bit tounge-in-check, but Delphi's gestures might come in
> handy
> > for this.....when its multiplatform :-)
> >
> >
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2985347/Apples-new-iMacs-multitouch-mouse
> >
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