I’m building a multitouch browser since I saw a request for it and I must have made at least 50 million browsers.

Its in flash but the only purpose of the flash is to act as a compatible interface.

The actual program is a window with an HTML browser and the flash menubar.

All the flash events send a command with sockets to the application on what to do.

Now I just need some ideas on some cool multitouch effects.

Current Progress:
-Window and Flash are connecting and talking to each other
-Command Parser Done

To be done:
-Get mouse coordinates in flash to allow clicking
-Mouse dragging
-Commands Defined
-Flash inteface

Sounds exciting!

By multitouch effects what do you mean?

What aspects of the browser should have multitouch responses.

For example the images resizing on the famous pinch and stretch motion.

Shawn are you making this in AIR?

Hmm, no I was planning on making a regular browser just with some cool effects… I’ll check that out anyway.

@shawn… hey how do you load a webpage within a flash app… i mean is it possible to load a webpage on a movieclip or any other object type in flash… if not what is the other way of doing it…

i am thinking on these line..

>> i have developed a multiouch keyboard app… link >> http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/860/
>> this can be used to type in a web address and that can be used as a string to load a url (whichever way that happens)
>> this object (preferably a movieclip) extend to RotatableScalable
>> a downevent within the webpage frame can dispath a mouse press event.
>> these frames can have a toggle mode b/w working on it and/or scale.rotate. and move it over the stage.

i am wondering if it would be this easy!!!

PS.. it would be great if you could toss over one of your 50 million browsers for an example to build on :p

I don’t know if I made this clear but the flash is just the controller, its basically just a regular webbrowser and the flash sends all the touch events, telling the browser what to do, eg. mouse clicks, etc.

oh… didn’t go thru the first post properly!!! cool ...will look it up ...

yeah, check out AIR.. air has WebKit built in which is what Safari uses to render web pages.

-Dave

hey c.moore, was that a actualy running flash web browser? do you have the scource code?

I want to combine it with the work that deej did. hey deej, what about some source codez pls?

My vision for my kiosk setup is going to combine the flicker/local video app with the web browsing on local html files.

I do not need the keyboard stuff, i want to keep it simple. you guys thin kyou could help me out with it, it looks like all the code I need is there, I jsut need to stick it
together.

Is the browser going to be built over Firefox?

Hey guys!

I do have a big problem to develop a simple web browser in flash as 3.

Thanks for any help

KDNY (vi.mito Mulit-touch)

c.moore - 24 October 2007 04:38 AM

Shawn are you making this in AIR?

Where is the code/download for this?

did u have any luck with this? in the end how were you able to make a browser in flash, have the rotatable aspect but yet still click on hyperlinks in the webpage

How do you open a browser with in Flash using AS3?

nice.. really interesting shawn.
i’ll wait for it..
just wanna ask how you can rotate window? i was search it and it seem not possible for me now. i was using ie activeX and just do scaling and moving, not rotating.. please share with us, i think all in the community needs it..