Source code from Windows 7 and 8: WM_GESTURE , WM_TOUCH , WM_POINTER

This a good news for the developers , Microsoft share source code to make available Touch feature in Windows desktop.

This sample demonstrates how to integrate touch into an application designed for a typical keyboard/mouse paradigm. Functionality has been added for many estures, showing how to map touch interactions to typical mouse interactions along with adding new gesture-only behavior such as two-finger rotate to rotate the truck and two-finger tap to reset it. The sample uses the Windows 7 WM_GESTURE API to provide the touch support and is supported on Windows 7 and Windows 8 with and without a touch screen.

You can get source code and demo to try it.

Blender 3D and the 2012 Suzanne Awards

The Blender Conference Animation Festival shows short films and visualizations reflecting the best creative work done with Blender in the past year. We invite film makers, artists, animators, designers or scientists to submit their work.

The nominations for the 2012 Suzanne Awards have been selected.

See more on the website suzanne.myblender.org.