iAno like program for HTC diamond

[tango3]

Is there any programs like the iAno for the HTC diamond?

[topspeclt]

Is there any programs like the iAno for the HTC diamond?

The diamond is not a multi-touch screen. Sigh... another plus for the iPhone.

[tango3]

The diamond is not a multi-touch screen. Sigh... another plus for the iPhone.

Aww darn it:(

[brins0]

The diamond is not a multi-touch screen. Sigh... another plus for the iPhone.

The screen may not be multiitouch, but the lower panel is fully multi-touch, and can be sued tor anything you fancy...

I don't know who else has noticed this, but the diamond only has 2 real hardware buttons it seems. The device uses the multi touch panel to "guess" which button has been pressed, as the finger touches the panel over the button.

A nice experiment to try, is pressing a button through a t-shirt or a cloth. You'll notice that the buttons light up, but no commands are executed, as the device doens't know where you pressed.

[Desmondo]

The device uses the multi touch panel to "guess" which button has been pressed, as the finger touches the panel over the button.

A nice experiment to try, is pressing a button through a t-shirt or a cloth. You'll notice that the buttons light up, but no commands are executed, as the device doens't know where you pressed.
Are you talking about the actual buttons at the bottom of the phone? Because mine actually press down. Yours must be broken ;)

I can even press them with an apple :D

[Espensodal]

i think he sais that the phone "knows" your finger is on the button before u even push it, its enough to gently stroke or place your finger onto the round button.

i dont think he meant that he couldnt push the button, just that there is 2 functions to it.

[quark1980]

thats right
the pad on the bottom actually server 2 purposes. mechanical buttons (5, enter, home, back,pick up, and hang up) and the dialwheel... BUT underneath the buttons there is more.. the complete pad is touchsensitive, altough not utilized by the diamond, for now that is...
its even multitouch.. for now only the dialwheel and the enter buttom use the touchsensitive capabilities..

somewhere on this forum there are a bunch of applications to debug/test youre diamond, i believe this paticular program was called navdebug or something like that..

it would be nice when sombody can utilize this pad in his software...

[Desmondo]

i think he sais that the phone "knows" your finger is on the button before u even push it, its enough to gently stroke or place your finger onto the round button.

i dont think he meant that he couldnt push the button, just that there is 2 functions to it.
I know there is the touch and the actual button function, but when he said...
the diamond only has 2 real hardware buttons it seems. The device uses the multi touch panel to "guess" which button has been pressed, as the finger touches the panel over the button.
...it had me confused. The panel clearly has hardware buttons underneath so there must be more than 2 on the entire phone. It also doesn't need to "guess" which button has been pressed.

[marios96]

The lower part of Touch Diamond has:

Two touch surfaces (one on the left and one on the right of the OK button)
Two clickable buttons underneath each touch surface (actually including the OK button it's 3 buttons)

When you put your finger on the touch panel it reads your position. If you press harder you will press the button underneath and it will translate the press according to your position on the touch panel as a specific button press.

So in theory, we could add another button bitween HOME and PHONE, or BACK and HANG UP etc etc

Unfortunately it's not fully multitouch, it just able to read simultaneously finger positions or presses from both touch panels. Something that may be mistaken for multitouch!

[Desmondo]

Ah right, so the 2 hardware buttons makes sense now :)

[quark1980]

The lower part of Touch Diamond has:

Two touch surfaces (one on the left and one on the right of the OK button)
Two clickable buttons underneath each touch surface (actually including the OK button it's 3 buttons)

When you put your finger on the touch panel it reads your position. If you press harder you will press the button underneath and it will translate the press according to your position on the touch panel as a specific button press.

So in theory, we could add another button bitween HOME and PHONE, or BACK and HANG UP etc etc

Unfortunately it's not fully multitouch, it just able to read simultaneously finger positions or presses from both touch panels. Something that may be mistaken for multitouch!

youre absolutly right...

however when i run the navdebug for the touchpanel, i can surely read the position of my fingers on both sides simutaniously. wich as far as i understand could be explained as multitouch.... correct me if i am wrong..

sadly i dont know how to code my own software, otherwise i would like to investigate further how this works... i geuss it has a grid of proximitysensor whis get read at a specific interval, and i assume, like the navdebug already gives away, that the resolution of the so calles multitouchpanel, will be very low...

i tried it and i just have to correct some of my sayings...

i seems that the matrix is divided into 3 parts wich could be read simutaniously, lets say left, middle and right... it doesnt read multitouch in one matrix... we just got 3 matrixes simutaniously....

never the less we could utilize it for example scrolling....

[lordaris]

I am not really sure how multi touch works but I have been using Stylophone program
on my fone and the whole screen is a keyboard. I allows you to play 2 keys of the keyboard
at the same time and two different sounds are always present if u get what I mean.
So m not sure if that cuts in as multi touch....Hmmm :rolleyes:

[brins0]

The lower part of Touch Diamond has:

Two touch surfaces (one on the left and one on the right of the OK button)
Two clickable buttons underneath each touch surface (actually including the OK button it's 3 buttons)

When you put your finger on the touch panel it reads your position. If you press harder you will press the button underneath and it will translate the press according to your position on the touch panel as a specific button press.

So in theory, we could add another button bitween HOME and PHONE, or BACK and HANG UP etc etc

Unfortunately it's not fully multitouch, it just able to read simultaneously finger positions or presses from both touch panels. Something that may be mistaken for multitouch!

This is exaclty what I was trying to say. I really do suck at explaining things sometimes...

The buttons on my device do indeed click down when pressed firmly, but when pressed with a non organic object, the button clicks, but no action is performed, as the device does not know where the button was pressed down.

When I work out how to read the location of these "touches" I think it would be VERY easy to add extra "buttons" to the lower touch section, and even replace the ones which are there already.

[jedi43]

here's the link for whom that haven't seen it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Owgcos_KY