My entry for the Code7Contest was putting Windows 7 in my truck.  I own a 09 Toyota Tundra.  I put a laptop mount in the truck and attached my HP Touchsmart tx2 tablet.   I use it as a platform to capture sensors and location information as I'm driving.  In addition to sensors and video attached to the laptop, I also access the OBD II port on my vehicle to capture the data that my truck computers/sensors are generating.  Other features of the app was to read documents using TTS to me as I'm driving and synchronize with my HomeGroup.  I also used voice recognition to have the app quiz me.  Biggest issue there was getting accurate recognition in a noisy vehicle with a desktop mic.  I will be looking at ways to improve that.

The contest rules required me to create a video that was no longer than 3 minutes and/or 10MB file size so I'm not able to show all the functionality.    They don't provide a direct link to the video I uploaded to their site so I've uploaded the video to YouTube for your viewing pleasure.  Watch for more videos on YouTube showing more of the app's functionality.

I posted a new article called WPF Scrolling Content with Flicks and Gestures.  I had been looking for a way to scroll content without a scroll bar.  So I started with a ScrollViewer control in WPF and added a StackPanel with Images.  The article shows how to scroll content by clicking directly on the image content.  And it shows how to animate the content scrolling with flicks.  I included gesture feature to zoom the main image.  Take a look at the video and tell me what you think....   Enjoy!!

Posted a new article on how to access gestures and flicks on an HP TouchSmart tx2 tablet PC.

Gesture Blocks article

I'm excited about multi-touch interfaces. I recently received an HP TouchSmart tx2 tablet PC. It uses DuoSense technology by N-Trig. The DuoSense technology combines a capacitive screen for touch and magnetic pen based input. Basically it allows the user to chose only touch, only pen input or both simultaneously. Built on top of this technology we have Multi-Touch Gestures(MTG) and Multi-Touch Messages(MTM). MTG works with Vista OS. Gestures use two fingers. MTM only works on Windows 7. MTM allows more than two fingers to be sensed.

Coming next will be a post about writing C# code for accessing the gestures...