Or… trick. Just one.
I’ve been poking around with Windows Phone more often lately. The system makes heavy use of multitouch gestures, and I thought it was a shame that it didn’t have some kind of multitouch emulation that came with its emulator. In the emulator all you get is the mouse, so you can’t pinch zoom or rotate or any other the other fun things MT can enable. I do not actually have a physical Windows Phone of my own, so this made me sad.
That was until I downloaded the Surface 2.0 SDK. It comes with a utility called ‘Input Simulator’ which is intended to allow you to emulate Surface-style interaction with an ordinary PC mouse. It leverages the fundamental system multitouch support that Microsoft released with Windows 7.
The coolest side effect of this that I’ve seen is that it works perfectly with the Windows Phone Emulator. My friend Jobi put together this video to demonstrate.
Ta daaa
The emulator works just fine with a multitouch-screen, so it’s not true that the emulator only works with the mouse (but it might be true that you don’t own a touch screen