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Gestures in Python

Richard Jones rjones at ekit-inc.com
Tue Dec 3 19:46:33 EST 2002 
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:44 am, Simon Wittber (Maptek) wrote:
> I've been playing a lot of Black & White recently, and after I got the
> hang of things, it struck me that Gesture's are an excellent and
> under-utilised interface / input paradigm.
>
> I've decide to have a go at implementing a minimal gesture recognition
> framework on top of pygame, using Python at first, then moving to C++ if
> speed becomes an issue.
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to implement gestures? I had a look at
> libStroke <http://www.etla.net/libstroke/> and have some ideas of my
> own, but am interested to see if anyone has experience or other takes on
> the subject.

Wrapping libstroke would be nice, and potentially a lot easier than 
implementing your own system. And the pygame crowd would definitely find it 
interesting (I know I would :)


   Richard
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