Annotorious issue on touch-enabled Windows PC with Firefox/Chrome

[dangmai]

Hi,

I'm using Annotorious on one of my projects and it works very well with all our devices running on Windows 7/Linux/OS X. However, on touch-enabled devices with Windows 8, the library only works if we use touch gestures (and not mouse gestures). This only happens in Chrome/Firefox, and (surprisingly) doesn't in IE10. I saw a few issues w.r.t touch on the issue list, so I tried going to the demo page for Annotorious to check whether the issue has been fixed, but the problem persists there.

[rsimon]

Hi!

Thanks for reporting! Yes this seems indeed related to issue #67. I'll try get my hand on a Windows 8 tablet & see what the recommended way of event handling is there. (Any pointers/links/etc. appreciated in case anyone has any.)

Cheers, Rainer

[rsimon]

P.S.: There is also some work that the good folks at @import-io are doing. I couldn't follow along as much as I wanted to, but one thing they are working on, I think, is overhauling the touch code, so this might be worth a try!

https://github.com/import-io/annotorious/tree/touch

Cheers, Rainer

[dangmai]

Thanks @rsimon for the pointer! I looked at the code that @import-io has implemented and backported a part of it back to my repo, and for now it works fine (our requirement is that only mouse events are needed, not touch). I think they want to support both, but I haven't really tried their code yet.

Please feel free to close this ticket if you want to keep all touch-related issues at #67.

[rsimon]

Great to hear this worked! I'll keep it open since it actually describes the issue much better than #67 (which is actually about a "secondary symptom" affecting the Leap Motion).

Cheers, R

[dcabo]

Hi,

I just run into this issue. @rsimon, did you get a chance to look into it and/or backport the import.io changes?

Regards,

/david

PS: thanks for a very useful library