公开(公告)号：CA2653363A1

公开(公告)日：2009-09-04

申请号：CA2653363

申请日：2009-02-10

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： BEAVER JASON CLAY ,  PLATZER ANDREW

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  H04W88/02

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, software, devices and APIs for defining touch events for application level software. Furthermore, some embodiments are directed to simplifying the recognition of single and multip le touch events for applications running in multi-touch enabled devices. To simplify the recognition of single and multiple touch events, each view within a particul ar window can be configured as either a multi-touch view or a single touch view. Furthermore, each view can be configured as either an exclusive or a non-exclusive view. Depending on the configuration of a view, touch events in that and other views can be either ignored or recognized. Ignored touches need not be sent to the application. Selectively ignoring touches can allow for simpler software elements that do not take advantage o f advanced multi touch features to be executed at the same device and time as more complex software elements.