Getting started with multitouch in AIR 2.0 and Player 10.1 on the Macbook
I decided to have a look at the latest beta players for AIR 2.0 and FP 1.5 with regards to multitouch. Lee Brimelow has a great multitouch tutorial on his site, check it out.
In order to get it to work you need a Macbook with multitouch pad. I use the latest pro model, courtesy of theFactor.e 
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- You need to download the beta runtime plus sdk which you can get here.
- Install the runtime. This is the easy part.
- Setup the sdk like they explain here. I’ve got it setup so I can export from Flash.
- Create a new Flash AIR project.
- If you would use any of the TransformGestureEvents now it will throw an error. But export the file anyway.
- Open the xml file that Flash just exported next to your swf (Multitouch-app.xml in my case).
- Change the line that define the name space so it uses the 2.0 beta name space:
<application xmlns=”http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/2.0beta2″> - Save the xml and try exporting the Flash file again. It should work a charm now.
I’ve uploaded the source for you to play with here. And if you just want to see the AIR app download that here. It only works on a Macbook with multitouch pad or some other fancy multitouch device running Windows 7. Enjoy!
Big thanks to Lee Brimelow and the Internets
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