Clarion 9.1 with touch support coming soon

Today (Nov 22, 2013) Bob Zaunere went on ClarionLive to give an update on the touch support coming in Clarion 9.1. 

In general touch support is working "fantastic". The one thing that isn't working is drag and drop from images. List scrolling, inertia, all that is looking really good. Diego is testing from an Android tablet using Microsoft's RDP client. 

Mike asked about keyboard popup on going to an entry field. Z thinks that could be coded but there is no automatic association in the API. Mike observed this does happen in RT apps but not in Windows touch apps. 

The wizards will get an option to create touch style apps with larger buttons etc. 

There are a couple of mostly-empty repositories on GitHub:

https://github.com/softvelocity/clariontouch

https://github.com/softvelocity/Tiles

There will also be one for the X-Buttons functionality Bob showed at DevCon. 

The IDE has been 90%  ported to .NET 4. 

There is a new SV web site under development. This has a gallery section for screen shots of best-looking apps. 

Repositories will also be up on BitBucket. 

Diego showed the TileDemo app which uses some new classes. 

Changing of background images is still a work in progress. 

The TileGroupClass handles automatic repositioning  of the tiles. Mike asked about letting the user move tiles around; this functionality could be added. As for displaying an OCX on a tile, not currently supported but you could probably handle this with a derived class that uses the tile location as the specification for where to show the OCX. 

The touch demo showed some basic touch functionality, including scrolling by swiping the list box and the expected inertia effect. 

Diego also demonstrated the use of some other controls, all of which worked without any additional code. You can also go way beyond simple touch-enabling (simply by recompiling in 9.1) by detecting touch, gestures etc. 

Clearly there's lots of good stuff to come!