Issue 109: on my setup PyMT 0.3 examples don’t recognize fingers in the home (desktop) screen… once menu appears everything just work fine
Status:  WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed:  Dec 2009
Reported by marco.ia...@gmail.com, Oct 2, 2009

When I run the desktop app in the example package (the one that says draw a
circle to get the menu) it cannot track my finger and I’m forced to use the
mouse to draw the circle. 

After that, as soon as the menu appears, I can use fingers to browse it
select an app and launch (i.e. everything works fine from the menu onward)
If I run the other applications outside the desktop app, finger recognition
works fine from the beginning


HW: mac mini 2ghz nvidia 9400
OS: Windows XP SP3
Pymt: v0.3 (installed using binaries available on pymt website)

Oct 2, 2009
Project Member #1 txprog
Very very weird. Do you have any trackback in console ?

Try to activate touchring and/or feedback module (using the
pymt-config in the tools/ directory)
And retry desktop, you should see your finger.


This things is, with "drawing a circle", it must be the same touch. If
your setup is not precise, or lost touch easily, it will not work.
With feedback module, you must not see waves when drawing a circle.
Can you confirm that ?

Thanks,

tito
Oct 2, 2009
#2 marco.ia...@gmail.com
I was not able to find the pymt-config file in my installation. Even searched on the whole disk with no luck.

Anyhow I re-tested it and it is not correct to say it doesn't detect fingers: it does and a couple of time I was 
able to get the menu... the problem is that it works only few times out of many.
I dunno, probably it is just a problem on my setup: the strange thing is that multitouch works very well in 
pymt stand alone applications.

I'll post a video in nuigroup to show you my issue.

thanks for the support!
Oct 5, 2009
Project Member #3 txprog
if one touch is lost, the gesture will stop
did you try to activate feedback to see this behavior ?
Dec 1, 2009
Project Member #4 txprog
No more information about this bug since 2 october.. It look like a hardware issue
than pymt issue ;)
Status: WontFix