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Indeed. I was just thinking I could try it on the device my neighbor has: A very cheap android 2.2 tablet with a resistive screen and pen, no multitouch. Never mind, it can hardly run android apps.

The [Octopus project](http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html) has an interesting take on gestures. When right-clicking, it pops up a circular menu where the direction one goes in determines the action. See http://lockerz.com/s/139588614 That might be something for touch tablets.

I daily use AcmeSAC on Mac & Win7 with a trackpad (and MagicPrefs for three finger middle click) and with a Wacom tablet and pen. Very nice for editing without RSI problems.




Well, if you can get accurate-enough touch events, you could always go into emu/Android/screen.c and hack around with the pointer event handling code, make it check the state of some of the physical buttons--thus, if you're holding (say) the Home button when you click, it does a left click. Since you have a pen, you should be able to hit the regular window control widgets to minimize/close, rather than relying on our physical button shortcuts.




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