tDesk released!

tDesk released!

Last year I demonstrated how Windows XP could be (ab)used with multi-touch interaction.

A few weeks ago I made some adjustments to make it compatible with the latest touchlib and this is the result:

tDesk v2 allows the user to move and resize multiple windows at the same time by using multi-touch gestures. Because Windows XP/Vista was not designed for multi-touch there are some issues with this type of input. In multi-touch mode it is not possible to do a mouse click, therefor I added an option to switch between multi-touch and mouse simulation mode.

Please keep in mind that when the mouse simulation mode is activated only single touch input is allowed. Do not use this software on unstable multi-touch systems.

Finally, use this software at own risk 🙂 .

Install instructions are in: readme.txt !

Downloads:
tdesk_v2.zip

Any tips or problems can be posted in the comment section.

* update *
In some cases tDesk does not seem to work properly with touchlib. Try downloading rev393 and overwrite your current touchlib dll files.

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17 responses

  1. Dude i have to say thats awesome… Great Work! keep up the good work. Taha

    Taha – May 5th, 2008
  2. i never say tx for testing all your applications, so tx laurence :) yogi(indonesia)

    mekadanorga – May 7th, 2008
  3. probleme tDesk se lance mais disparait aussitot.

    chachinoi – May 15th, 2008
  4. heyy dude…this is awesomeeeee…i tried this tdesk app, but I’m gettin an error “tDesk v0.2 Listener: tDesk_v2.exe - Application Error” “The instruction at “0x00000000” referenced memory at “0x00000000”. The memory could not be “read”. Ok to terminate cancel to debug hitting either OK or cancel just exits the app. I’ve got everything else working fine. smoke demo works, mouse driver works, all flash demos work…any clue on this…thanks

    xtreme571 – May 19th, 2008
  5. Amazing job, Laurence! This is really cool. I was having the same problem as “xtreme”, the other examples run well, but tDesk threw an exception. I think this was because I put tDesk.exe with an older version of Touchlib. I fixed it by replacing the files on the folder by those on touchlib-rev393-speedfix provided here.

    Sergio – May 26th, 2008
  6. @Sergio: I could not figure out what was causing this problem. First I assumed that it would be missing the vs2k5 dll’s, but that wouldn’t really make sense with this error message. I’m glad you found a solution. Thanks :)

    Laurence Muller May 26th, 2008
  7. Downloading both package in the post, tdesk_v2 can’t find cxcore100.dll. So, I download OpenCV and install it.. same problem, tdesk whats the dll in HIS directory (no matter if the dll dir is in the PATH). With some dll copied in the right place: “Unable to find entry point ?GetCameraUniqueID@C1394Camera@@QAEXPAT_LARGE_INTEGER@@@Z [cut] in the 1394camera.dll” What’s wrong? Thanks in advance!!

    Gnafu – May 29th, 2008
  8. Solved using latest touchlib distro.

    Gnafu – May 29th, 2008
  9. I was wanting to know if you plan on releasing the source code for your project. Looks great, good job!!

    Matt – October 23rd, 2008
  10. can you give me some advices for about using multi-touch gestures? Because i don’t know how to start the first step to accomplish the move and resize multiple windows at the same time

    brian – May 14th, 2009
  11. is it possible to run this with ccv instead? im havin a lot of problems configuring touchlib,but i have a proper configured table with ccv…. please help me out here,wanna run this app

    vishesh – October 25th, 2009
  12. heyy dude…this is awesomeeeee…i tried this tdesk app, but I’m gettin an error “tDesk v0.2 Listener: tDesk_v2.exe – Application Error” “The instruction at “0×00000000″ referenced memory at “0×00000000″. The memory could not be “read”. Ok to terminate cancel to debug hitting either OK or cancel just exits the app. I’ve got everything else working fine. smoke demo works, mouse driver works, all flash demos work…any clue on this…thanks

    Doogyou Choi September 16th, 2010
  13. great work dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! iwas searching for this work and you did it.

    mihir – February 25th, 2011
  14. Its really awesome i must say.Is this applicable with windows 7? i’m trying on windows 7 and is giving errors of some missing dll’s?? plz can anybody tell me why this is so?

    haleema – March 21st, 2011
  15. I haven’t tried this on Windows 7 but the hack pretty much relies on XP or Vista…

    Laurence Muller March 23rd, 2011
  16. I got to say,That is amazing!Nice work man!I wonder will you develop a pure system basic on Linux?That may be easier to develop…Thanks !

    Holyman – April 22nd, 2011
  17. i putted the missing files the program needed,it start in multitouch mode,but not working…

    stelios – August 23rd, 2011