Software Application : Part IV

#TITLE:
PuzzleGame Version 2 (Final)

#DESCRIPTION:
A standard multi-touch puzzle application.

#INSTALL:
- First make sure the global flash security settings link to the swf.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html
- Run OSC.
- Run FLOSC.
- Run PuzzleGame.swf.
- Define the screen by touching the red crosses with one finger.
- Puzzle away!

#OPTIONS:
- Insert row; You can insert as many rows as you prefer.
- Insert column; You can insert as many columns as you prefer.
These options make it possible to create your own amount of puzzle pieces.
- Next puzzle; Creates the next puzzle by randomly picking an image from the imagelist.

#IMAGE LIST:
In the images folder you can find the photo’s and an XML document. It’s possible to add your own photo’s. Just place a photo with a dimension of 400x300 in the images folder and add it to the XML document. Click as much on the Next Puzzle button till your photo appears.

#DOWNLOAD:
Click here.

#SCREENSHOT:

Software Application : Part III

So the first real application has been written for my multi-touch screen. It's a standard puzzle game which I developed to see which methods and events I will encounter when designing a game and integrate those into the TouchLibrary.

Software Application : Part II

One of the most annoying things I came a cross was while playing and developing with my FTIR touch screen, was that it wasn't precize enough. If it doesn't register properly where you touched the screen that get's very frustrated, mostly if you are depended on it. So I worked hard on adding a calibration handler to my class and succeeded.

With a simple method 'startCalibration()' I can now let the user define the screen size and use those values to give a more precize position of where the finger touches the screen.

It looks like this:

Software Application : Part I

On monday and tuesday I worked very hard on my very own touch class in Actionscript 3. This class is needed to parse the messages send by the OSC. It now includes the following events:

FINGER_DOWN - Dispatched when a finger touches the screen.
FINGER_UP - Dispatched when a finger releases from the screen.
FINGER_MOVE - Dispatched when a movement of a finger has been found.

With these events it was very easy to create a simple multi-touch painting software in flash. Which looks like this: