Fun with gestures

While working on the next JGrid release I found the cool gestures API from Apple. Since “Java 6 Update 2” Apple added a listener based API for multitouch gestures to their eawt package. So you can use pinching and rotation on a multitouch trackpad. I wrote a short java webstart demo:

Currently you can start this demo only on a Mac with Java 6 Update 2 or later. You can find the sources in the JGrid repository @ https://code.google.com/p/jgrid/. I will try to write a wrapper API around the Apple classes. Then you can add the listeners to your code and they will automatically be activated on a Mac.