Adobe AIR Development

[gerardkcohen]

Can anyone tell me how to test gesture events in the PB simulator? I have not been able to find any information on this. Thank you in advance. gkc

[peter9477]

You cannot, yet.

That said, I haven't heard of anyone trying to simulate them by injecting those events into the app in some fashion.  In other environments I'd do this in a snap, but I don't quite know whether it's feasible in AS3.

[jtegen]

We cannot at this point.  Some can be captured by mouse events, but gestures like pinch cannot be done in the simulator at this point.

[gerardkcohen]

Thank you both for the quick response.

[peter9477]

I'm hoping nobody takes the response as completely negative though.  

I really am curious why, if it's not possible, one could not simply inject the appropriate events into the system.  Isn't it roughly just a case of creating a "new SomeGestureEvent()" with appropriate parameters, and dispatchEvent()ing that into the stage, main class, or some other object?

If this is basically feasible, one could even whip up a bridge program that would run on the host, letting you interact to set up gestures using the mouse (or real gestures, if you had a suitable monitor and OS), and then pass those through to the app under test in the simulator to "play" them as though they were native.

[jtegen]

This is very feasible.  I do this for GPS events.  As long as you set the needed attributes, you can create a "driver" class that you can trigger by a button, click, etc.  And then just dispatch the event to the desired target that "normal" objects are listening to.

[billfoust]

The biggest problem with faking gesture events, at least in a generic fashion, would be location. GPS data doesn't have a screen X and Y but a pinch would.

I also thought that swipe events were implmented. its only the multi-touch gestures that are not implemented. Am I remembering correctly?

Bill

[jtegen]

You could set a "mode" that when a click occurs, it then generates the appropriate gesture at that point.  If it is a pinch, maybe that is the center point and a pinch in or pinch out could be when a second click occurs.

It can be done, you just have to be a little creative.

[peter9477]

Bill, I'm picturing a support program on the host which provides a simulated touch area, and you simply interact with it with your mouse.  As John suggested, you could have buttons and/or hotkeys that would let you select various modes.  The results including X/Y coords would be sent through to the simulator to be regenerated as the appropriate events.

Your memory is wrong about the swipe events though, I believe.  I'm under the impression no touch events of any kind are generated on the simulator right now, swipe or gesture (if those are the appropriate names for the two categories).

[jffurlan]

Hust wanted to clarify that a touch event swipe won't work, but a mouse event swipe will.