Gestures; Overview; Touch Gesture Recognition; Gesture Velocity - AMX Modero G5 Instruction Manual

Gestures

Overview

You can program Modero X Series touch panels, using the commands in this section, to perform a wide variety of
operations using Send Commands and variable text commands.
A device must first be defined in the NetLinx programming language with values for the Device: Port: System (in
all programming examples - Panel is used in place of these values and represents all Modero panels).
Verify you are using the latest NetLinx Master and Modero firmware, as well as the
latest version of NetLinx Studio and TPD5.
For more information on gestures and on designing touch panel pages, please refer
to the TPDesign 5 online help, available at www.amx.com.

Touch Gesture Recognition

Gesturing refers to the act of moving a finger or stylus across the overlay and having the panel recognize and process this
motion as a gesture.
In G5, gesture events are assigned as individual buttons or pages. In addition, a gesture velocity is calculated and
transmitted to the master along with the gesture type itself in a custom event message. Nothing will be processed if the
button associated with this gesture has no gesture event operations programmed, is disabled, or has no values
programmed for address, channel, level, string output or command output. The custom event, however, is always
transmitted.
The following gesture types are supported:
1.
Swipe up
2.
Swipe down
3.
Swipe right
4.
Swipe left
5.
Double-tap
6.
2 Finger Swipe Up
7.
2 Finger Swipe Down
8.
2 Finger Swipe Right
9.
2 Finger Swipe Left

Gesture Velocity

A gesture "velocity" is calculated to represent the speed of the gesture. This is done by measuring the time from when
the user first presses the screen until the user releases. The following simplified velocities are supported and transferred
to the master in the custom event message:
1.
Fast
2.
Normal
3.
Slow
A precise velocity is sent in the custom event message which represents the velocity in terms of pixels per second for
slides and circles. For a double tap, this value is the total time in milliseconds from the first press to the second release.
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