Creating Web Apps - The Touch API
Written by Mike James   
Monday, 21 January 2013
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The complete listing of the final version of the program is:

<!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
  <head>
   <title>Touch</title>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
    content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
   <meta name="viewport"
    content="width=device-width,
    initial-scale=1.0,
    user-scalable=no">
  </head>
  <body>
   <canvas id="myCanvas"
        width="800" height="800"
        style="border:1px solid #000000;" >
   </canvas>
  <script>
   var ctx = myCanvas.getContext('2d');
   myCanvas.addEventListener("touchstart",
                       handleStart, false);
   myCanvas.addEventListener("touchmove",
                       handleMove, false);
   myCanvas.addEventListener("touchend",
                       handleEnd, false);
   document.body.addEventListener('touchmove',
      function(event) {
        event.preventDefault();
      }, false);

var colors=["#FF0000","#00FF00","#0000FF"];
var colorId = [];

function handleStart(evt) {
 for(var i=0;
       i<evt.changedTouches.length;i++)
 {
  if (colors.length === 0) continue;
  var touch = evt.changedTouches[i];
  colorId[touch.identifier] = colors.pop();
  drawCircle(touch.pageX, touch.pageY,
        20, colorId[touch.identifier],ctx);
 }
}

function handleMove(evt) {
 for(var i=0;i<evt.changedTouches.length;
                                    i++){
  var touch = evt.changedTouches[i];
  if (colorId[touch.identifier] ===
                      undefined) continue;
  drawCircle(touch.pageX, touch.pageY,
       20, colorId[touch.identifier], ctx);
 }
}

function handleEnd(evt) {
 for (var i=0;i<evt.changedTouches.length;
                                      i++){
  var touch = evt.changedTouches[i];
  if (colorId[touch.identifier] ===
                       undefined) continue;
  colors.push(colorId[touch.identifier]);
 }
}

function drawCircle(x, y, r, c, ctx) {
 ctx.beginPath();
 ctx.arc(x, y, r, 0, 2 * Math.PI, true);
 ctx.fillStyle = c;
 ctx.fill();
 ctx.stroke();
}
  </script>
 </body>
</html>

 

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What's left

There are lots of small topcs we haven't covered. In particular we have ignored the touchenter, touchleave and touchcancel events, but these are fairly easy to work with.

It is worth pointing out that there is additional information in the touch object that you can use to make your apps more sophisticated. For example, the radiusX, radiusY and rotationAngle can be used to fit an ellipse to the point of contact. The force property can also be used to work out how hard the user is pressing on the screen. Again, once you know they exist they are easy enough to use. The TouchList object also has the identifiedTouch method which can be used to return a touch object corresponding to a particular touch identifier.

Perhaps another article on touch is needed?

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More Information
http://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/

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