I'm trying to sell my boss on using three.js to create a CSS3D interface integrated with video providers (like YouTube). One of the requirements is showing it on a mobile device - I've chosen an iPad since the Android tablet is quirky.
Since my demo is scheduled for this Thursday I thought the quickest thing to do was to show him the wonderful css3d_youtube demo.
The problem is it is not configured to use gestures (touch pinch zoom) and I'm having a hard time doing this.
I also needed to add a few things like a background image and the ability to have the YouTube player go full screen so I had to take the original code and modify it. I saw the periodic table is so I decided to use the TrackBall controller in my code. You can see my modified code here
The trackball controller seems to shift the camera's y position. You can see the actual page I created here if you view in a tablet. I used the Modernizr library to recognize if the device is touch screen so you wont see it just by using a desktop browser.
If it would be more helpful I can remove that condition so it can be seen in a desktop browser.
If I remove the code that is messing up the camera position (you can see where I do this my searching for Modernizr.touch in the code) the camera is no longer centered to the video poster image when clicking on the button.
I also tried just regular JavaScript gesture events by adding this function:
function onPinch(e) {
move(e.scale)
}
and calling it in an event handler:
`document.body.addEventListener('gestureend', onPinch, false)`
but that was a disaster. The CSS3D objects rendered very slowly.
Can someone help me add pinch zoom functionality to the css3d youtube demo? Or at least offer some advice on how to proceed? I wasn't able to find anything to help via Google -ing
Looks like TrackballControls.js has been updated to support touch zoom gestures.
If any one else is having this problem, just get the latest version.
The CSS3D periodic table and youtube examples seem to have been updated too.
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I am building an admin panel for a client using the Metronic theme. Accessibility is not important to the client and responsiveness is not too important either since this application will only be used on desktops/laptops. Zooming into the application breaks the appearance of some components.
Would it be possible to replace zooming with magnification (the behaviour achieved by pinching and zooming on a laptop trackpad).
To help you visualise what I mean I used StackOverflow as an example;
StackOverflow without zooming/magnification;
StackOverflow when zooming in (Ctrl+Shift+Plus);
StackOverflow when magnifying (Pinch and zoom on a trackpad);
I want the third behaviour to happen when zooming regularly also. I have tried adjusting the meta viewport tag but according to this post and many others, viewport is only for mobile devices. There is also no zoom event in JavaScript to do try to see if e.preventDefault would make it work.
Even if I end up having to make everything responsive anyways it would be interesting to see if this is possible.
I have a desktop web app (skyviewcafe.com) that I’m trying to make more mobile-friendly. As one step in that process, I’ve taken a star chart and made it touch-draggable, and also made a view of the orbits of the planets both draggable and zoomable with touch gestures.
But here’s an interesting problem that I imagine must have happened to others before: It’s possible to use the default panning and zooming behavior of a mobile web browser to move my web page around until the only thing in view is a component that itself takes over touch gestures using preventDefault.
Once this happens, it’s impossible to zoom back out and bring the whole web page back into view. All pinch/spread zooming is sucked in by my component. For lack of a better term, I’m calling this a “zoom trap”. I’ve tried to search online for any discussion of this problem, but can’t find the right words to match anything.
I came up with an ad hoc solution that’s currently deployed at http://test.skyviewcafe.com. If I’m in a “zoom trap” I can touch the screen with three fingers and a translucent gray panel comes up to block touch gestures from reaching my touch-responsive canvas. Normal default web browser pan and zoom then becomes possible again, and the user can zoom back out. After that, touching with three fingers again clears the gray panel out of the way.
While this solves the problem in a way, it’s not a standard well-known gesture, and it would be hard to provide enough on-screen prompting to make necessary gesture clear.
Ideally I’d like to be able to respond to a standard gesture like a double-tap by zooming out the web page, but as far as I can tell, other than the initial zoom factor when a web page loads, web browser zooming isn’t something a web app can control dynamically.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Are there standard touch gestures for dealing with this? Are there ways in JavaScript that I haven’t discovered yet to dynamically control mobile web browser zooming?
I'm planning to develop a HTML5-App which should be capable of playing 360°-Videos using the Device Orientation of the smartphone. By moving the smartphone the player should pan and tilt the video.
A first idea was to simply embed a YouTube-360-Video. But the YouTube-Browser-Player doesn't seem to make use of the device orientation, in contrast to the YouTube-App.
My second idea is to use krpano and to hand over the orientation to the krpano-player.
Is this possible or do you have another idea to solve this problem?
If the 360° video in question is equirectangular, which most of those videos are, you can use a little Three.js and the deviceorientation events to make your own player, like in this example
Since I´m working on a project where I need to be able to drag objects around my canvas but also to scroll the entire page by dragging the actual canvas 'background' behind my PIXI Sprites, i followed the findings of this guy here:
https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/issues/2483 :
By default, the Pixi canvas/display-area cannot be used to scroll the
webpage that contains it. Which is important on touch screens. (eg. If
you use the rest of the web-page to pinch-zoom into the Pixi canvas,
you can become trapped and unable to zoom back out (or pan away),
because there's no non-Pixi-canvas area of the page to "grab" with
your pinch gesture).
To enable this functionality, I use autoPreventDefault. But this comes
with some undesirable side-effects, like scroll/pinch-zoom actions
over the canvas registering "taps" or clicks in a way that doesn't
make sense. (ie. I'm attempting to zoom or scroll the outer page at
that point, not interact with the Pixi canvas)
To work around that, I modify and compile my own custom version of
Pixi where I can apply preventDefault in a more granular way...
To get page-scrolling functionality it seems I only need to
preventDefault in the InteractionManager.prototype.onTouchEnd
function. Whereas autoPreventDefault will also preventDefault on 3
other events. (onMouseDown, onTouchMove, onTouchStart).
Leaving autoPreventDefault = false and applying preventDefault only to
onTouchEnd, gives me the functionality I need. But it'd be nice to not
have to customize and rebuild Pixi in this way every release. (Sorry
if there's something else I'm missing here; I don't completely
understand the event system in Pixi, or what else to do about this
scroll-touch problem)
So i disabled e.preventDefault() on 'onTouchStart' and on 'onMouseMove' but left it as is on 'onTouchEnd'
This works perfect on IOS devices but not on Android, the only exception being a Samsung A7 using Adblock browser (fails on Chrome).
Would really appreciate some help on this.
TLDR:
Disabling PIXI´s e.preventDefault on onTouchStart and onMouseMove works on IOS devices and lets me scroll the page by draggin my canvas around but not on Android devices.
My solution for that was to use
renderer.plugins.interaction.autoPreventDefault = false
This should work on iOS and Android.
Docs for autoPreventDefault reads:
Should the manager automatically prevent default browser actions.
Using PIXI 4.5.6.
Take a look at the docs:
http://pixijs.download/dev/docs/PIXI.CanvasRenderer.html#plugins
http://pixijs.download/dev/docs/PIXI.interaction.InteractionManager.html
Using renderer.plugins.interaction.autoPreventDefault=true should do the trick.
We're developing an app using Trigger.io in conjunction with Jquery Mobile 1.1.1. We're aware of the modifications to the viewport meta tag in JM to enable or disable zoom, but in another Stack question about Trigger.io, one of their devs mentioned they disable zoom at the webview level: Preventing zoom with trigger.io forge
We would like to enable zoom when displaying a large image on the page - is this possible using the Trigger framework?
yes we do disable zooming in the WebView: if you include a large, unscaled image in your HTML, the user will be able to scroll around to see the full image, but pinches won't work.
Of course, you could have the image down-scaled to start with, then blow it up to full size when the user clicks on an icon? Libraries such as iScroll4 might help here too.
Also, we would be able to make the WebView's zooming behaviour somewhat configurable (although we would always default to making it non-zoomable). Get in touch with support#trigger.io if you absolutely need different behaviour.