Testing gestures on openGL ES using the iPhone simulator

Question

I have an openGL ES app i'm working on, and i added some gestures:

Pan - 1 & 2 fingers, for moving the object

Pinch - Zoom in and out on the object

Rotation - Just to rotate the object

I can't test these gestures on an iPhone since mine is currently out of use, and i wanted to know is there any way to test these gestures using Xcode's iPhone simulator and the Mac's touch pad?

Currently i could only test the pan gesture since i can click on the Mac touch pad and drag my finger around, so pan does work, but only for 1 finger.

How can i test all the other gestures? is there a way to define that on the iPhone simulator?

Answer 1

Hold down the Option key.

Developer Doc

Answer 2

As Peter says, hold down the option key (alt key on a Windows keyboard) while hovering the mouse over the simulator's screen. That causes 2 points to show on the screen. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.

Apple has had multi-touch trackpads and mice for Mac for what, 3 years now, but they still have not added multi-touch support to the simulator. If this was an end-user feature it would have been added years ago. Us developers are not a priority for Apple it seems. :(

Answer 3

You can hold down alt key while pressing left mouse button.