What I have been missing most in QML is multitouch support. Only Qt 5.0 has QML MultiPointTouchArea but Sailfish is using Qt 4.8. In Harmattan, I was able to read multiple touch points by Lauri Jääskeläinen's QmlMultiTouch code ( http://www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Blogs/blog/lauri-jaaskelas-forum-nokia-blog/2011/02/03/raw-multitouch-pointer-events-in-qml) where a new class (TouchApplicationViewer) is inherited from QmlApplicationViewer, and viewportEvent(QEvent*) method is reimplemented. The code also implements a class MultiTouch which exposes a list of touch points to QML.
Now that I'm planning to port my app from Harmattan to Sailfish I'm having problems dealing with view and installing multitouch in main.cpp of Sailfish/Silica. Any ideas how to do that? Or, would it be possible to have a TouchArea library or plugin for Sailfish QtCreator (next update)? I think being able to easily deal with multiple touch points in QML is one of the key features needed while developing interesting Qt apps for modern smartphones. A sample code for main.cpp or Sailfish QtCreator lib upgrade/plugin would be great! - tiptyper
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