Awesome! Thank you so much for this :)

Nice work! Any chance this can work to see if someone is drawing a letter correctly. Such as the letter A. Thinking a small child who may do it a number of different ways including lifting their finger multiple times while drawing the letter.

Thanks

I don't know if it's a Corona bug, but line 11 should be

if line and line.removeSelf then

If you tap on the screen, it will crash the program, because there's no removeSelf method if there's no object. Changing the line to the above will prevent that.

This is awesome... I was looking for something like this a little while ago.

I'm wondering how comparable the algorithm is to the $1 unistroke one in terms of accuracy and stuff? http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/

I'll play with this corona version, but just wondering if anyone had any knowledge / opinions on that aspect.

Best,
~~Kenn

I tried using this library, but found it to be extremely not accurate. Is there anything better than this for Corona, or maybe I'm doing something wrong?

Link seems to work fine for me. Thanks for the library! Works really well :)

If you're new to Corona, recommend downloading many sample projects and try to understand/copy their code. It worked for me, so maybe it'll work for you.

Thought starters:
1) Main game play screen/menu objects -> use ui library available on code exchange, they are many out sample projects using this library, recommend you go for Monster Tilt on Corona code exchange
2) To draw a line on screen: This gesture recognition library has some code on that for reference
3) Moving objects, two ways I know of: using transition.to() function, or simply specify the position of object at every frame refresh. Recommend 2nd method, sample code is in Monster Tilt as well.

Thanks for this great class. I am in a bit of a pinch.

I am suing this class with the Director class. Usine Runtime wasn't working so well so I am using an object to listen.

However, I have to swype 2 or more time in order for the gesture to be recognized. Any idea why this is?

If someone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Rich

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local pageBackground = display.newRect( 0, 0, display.contentWidth, display.contentHeight)
 
pageBackground.alpha = 0.01
 
function movePage(event)
        if "began" == event.phase then
                pointsTable = nil
                pointsTable = {}
                local pt = {}
                pt.x = event.x
                pt.y = event.y
                table.insert(pointsTable,pt)
                print( currView )
        elseif "moved" == event.phase then
                local pt = {}
                pt.x = event.x
                pt.y = event.y
                table.insert(pointsTable,pt)
        elseif "ended" == event.phase or "cancelled" == event.phase then
                action = Gesture.GestureResult()                        
                if action == 'I' then
                        director:changeScene( moveup, "moveFromBottom" )
                end
                if action == 'SwipeD' then
                        director:changeScene( movedown, "moveFromTop" )
                end
                if action == 'SwipeL' then
                        director:changeScene( moveleft, "moveFromRight" )
                end
                if action == 'SwipeR' then
                        director:changeScene( moveright, "moveFromLeft" )
                end     
                print( action )
        end
end
 
pageBackground:addEventListener( "touch", movePage )

Wowww, just googled this and it is fantastic.

One question, if I want to remove some characters from the class, should I delete the entries in gestureSign and gestures? Or will it not work?

I just want to have some characters for recognition.

Regards, Joakim

Yes m8, It seems that if you tap (no need to hold on for x seconds), this will return "SwipeR" string.

This is just what I need in my project. Alas, the page the download link points to, gives me a 403 error (Access forbidden).
@gtatarkin is this a mistake?

Kind regards

Brilliant!
Thanks for sharing