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Can I use Microsoft WPF(4) for multitouch when running Windows through Parallels on an OSX machine?

When I run Windows8 on my Mac the multitouch with touchpad works.
But if I program my own WPF application multitouch doesn't work.

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I have a Mac running OSX. On it I have Parallels running a Windows8 virtual machine. This Windows8 machine works nicely with multitouch by the Mac touch pad, swiping, zooming etc. Then I create a WPF application with the templates that come with Visualstudio11 and get no multitouch. I thought the WPF4 (4.5?) templates would be multitouch. Are they and it is just the combination with my mac touchpad that doesn't work. Or has someone got this to work?

gparyani
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There's a difference between multitouch gestures provided by the trackpad driver and true multitouch support in windows. The Mac BootCamp driver does not support true multitouch on Windows (and niether do the synaptics touchpad/drivers).

One thing that you'll notice when you have true multitouch support is the 'Pen and Touch' applet running in your taskbar. This applet lets you manage multitouch settings.

Pen and Touch

I've used the MultiTouchVista project and a 2nd mouse for testing multitouch on my development PC, but it crashes and bugs out quite regularly (sometimes the mouse pointer seems to be driven by a really active ghost).

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