Two handed drag gesture on LP?

[Apex]

Today I was wanting to minimize a window and felt naturally like dragging my hands from the top of the pads to the bottom, essentially "clawing the window down off the screen."

Well - I quickly fired up Gesture Editor and attempted to enter that gesture for the minimize macro. Unfortunately, it looks like the only two handed gestures available are tap-chording ones.

Is this something that can be added in the future? Would it be possible to get a two handed 'clawing' gesture to be recognized? (Slide a set of three or four fingers on both hands downward at the same time.)

Were more two handed gestures left out simply because there is SOOO many things to do that this just hasn't been done yet, or is there a technical reason these kind of gestures are infeasilble?

[Smeggy]

This can be done quite easily by setting the second pad to 'mouse mode' like the first pad, then you can do two-handed clawing. I have mine set up this way. The only problem is that you lose the text editing functionality of the left pad as the mouse mode replaces it.

Check here:

http://forums.fingerworks.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170

This will show you how to set it up if you want to go that way :)

[-jeffB]

I think Apex was asking to define a gesture that had both hands dragging down simultaneously. If I'm understanding you correctly, you're offering a solution that will allow dragging-down with one hand or the other, not both simultaneously.

I'm guessing that the FingerWorkers tried this, and found it was too hard to get reliable timing between hands. Or maybe they just didn't want to deal with the combinatorial explosion of left-hand-down/right-hand-up, left-hand-down/right-hand-right, etc, etc.

If it's feasible, though, I too would like to have more simple two-handed gestures.

[Smeggy]

ah, my bad. I think my brain was asleep while reading his post. :o

[Apex]

Yup - I was going for both hands simultaneously... No problem though Smeggy... I know the feeling! ;)

The more I think about it, the more I think you're right jeffB - the sheer number of possibilities that show up when you use both hands like that is almost mind boggling. Fingerworks would really open a can of worms supporting that.

I wonder how much memory these boards have to store recognition patterns? Perhaps adding all those gestures would either fill up the storage space, or cause the recognition algorithms to become so complex it would take forever for the board to respond.

I'll have to dig around the technical specs a bit to see what powers these things.