Touch / Tap events in a non-mobile app

[Aaron]

We want to be able to easily make use of Kendo's tap/touch framework.  This is important in non-mobile situations such as Windows 8 touch screen scenarios.

The documentation on the "Touch" framework is very light.  What I want to do is something like this:

$("#myobject").on("kendotap", callback);

I see how Kendo uses the data-tap attribute, or I can apply the kendoTouch like this:

$("#list li").kendoTouch({
        surface: $("#list"),
        drag: function(e) {
            console.log("you dragged a list item");
        }
    });

But that sees a little heavy.  Any suggestions?

[Petyo]

Hello Aaron,

The touch component follows the same initialization pattern as all Kendo UI Widgets. Based on your application requirements/development approach, you may wrap it further in jQuery helpers or custom events. 

I would appreciate if you can share some more details regarding the documentation - what would you describe as missing or lacking explanations/examples? 

Thank you in advance,
Petyo
the Telerik team

[David]

[quote]what would you describe as missing or lacking explanations/examples? [/quote]

I will jump in here... There doesn't seem to be very many MVVM examples or information on how to implement a mobile touch widget via MVVM and not with jquery declaration... or at least I can't find it after looking for 20 minutes, which is rather frustrating. 

[Petyo]

Hello David,

 

the mobile touch widget is instantiated with MVVM just like any other widget - by using the data-role attribute. The data attribute approach is covered in details here.

 

Regards,
Petyo
Telerik

 

 

[David]

Sure. ​The main help that is afforded for specifics pertaining to MVVM on a specific widget (in our case "TOUCH" widget) is this:

 Camel-cased options are set via dash-separated attributes. For example, the ignoreCase option of the AutoComplete is set via data-ignore-case.

It seems like the mobile framework documentation in general is harder to find as of lately too. Is this all getting brushed under the rug in favor of Responsive approach?

[Petyo]

Hello David,

 

The section I have linked to features code samples showing how to initialize a widget and bind to its events with MVVM. I consider these resources relevant to your query. Please let me know if I am missing something.

 

The mobile framework documentation is available at the root level of our docs website. Do you refer to a specific change we have introduced? Perhaps I am missing something. 

 

Regards,
Petyo
Telerik