MultitouchPatch

Magic Trackpad and Kineme MultitouchPatch

leegrosbauer's picture

Is the Kineme MultitouchPatch compatible with the Magic Trackpad? I inquire because Macworld is reporting that other third party multitouch enhancers, which do work with laptops and the Magic Mouse, are nonetheless not currently working with the new Magic Trackpad.

MultiTouchPatch-NagaoLiquid (Composition by gtoledo3)

Author: gtoledo3
License: (unknown)
Date: 2009.12.09
Compatibility: 10.5, 10.6
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Required plugins:
(none)

This is a qtz that uses the kineme MultiTouchPatch and core image to create a kind of 2D liquid simulation.

This may have less than ideal FPS on some systems; this is similar to the multi-touch example compositions, and was actually an early one (with some minor changes). I decided that the limited speed of the nagao setup made it "not so good" as an example piece, but it's probably nice as a general example. It's usable on my macbook pro, but not really so much on my white macbook.

Multi-Touch FPS Controller (Composition by dust)

Author: dust
License: (unknown)
Date: 2009.11.27
Compatibility: 10.6
Categories:
Required plugins:
(none)

so this is using the kineme multi-touch patch. it is a basic controller kind of like a fps game controller. i know this is multi-touch but i tried to do as many of the controls possible with one touch. to move left move left to move right move right, to look left turn your finger left to look right turn your finger right. to jump touch down with your second finger. i made a multi-touch macro as well with some basic gestures from apple mouse and interaction patch. there are cursors for max touches all with direction. the interaction feature is so you can use any touch to interact with a mesh or sprite not just your mouse xy. i suppose this interaction would be used to pick up a gun or something that can be controlled with another finger than the controlling finger. enjoy. just extract zip to your desktop in order to visualize. keep the same folder structure or replace with your own model.

Multitouch macbook 4,1

mradcliffe's picture

Just a fyi, the patch doesn't work if you have Leopard if you have a Macbook 4,1. You need the Snow Leopard drivers to enable this device.

Edit: see my post further down...

MultitouchPatch. Two mice at once?

leegrosbauer's picture

Is there any reason we shouldn't run a USB mouse and the Magic Mouse together at once?

The circumstance: I've discovered that I can use both mice at once; Magic Mouse to control multitouch functions in a composition and USB mouse to simultaneously control other composition parameters. For this experiment I disabled all the scrolling functions in the Magic Mouse. The implications? Play the composition with two hands.

So ... tell me it's ok, somebody. It's a really significant capability if consistently viable, imho.